American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Special Issue

Brain Injury and Repair

  • Submission Deadline: 28 February 2016
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Ashraf Ahmed Mahmoud Zaher
About This Special Issue
This issue will try to cover the state-of-the art in the subject of Brain injury and repair. It will try to cover basic neuroscience as well as clinical trials in the field. Clinical applications will encompass traumatic, vascular, degenerative, and genetic central nervous system disorders. The proposed sections of the issue will be:

A. Mechanisms of Brain injury.

B. Factors affecting Brain repair including:

1. Growth factors: Definition, classes and importance.
2. Genetic therapy: Basis and types.
3. Neuronal stem cells: Types, indication and mechanism.
4. Monoclonal antibodies.
5. Electromagnetic stimulation: Principal and mechanism.
6. Intensive physiotherapy: Rehabilitation and robotic devices.
7. Small molecules, drugs and compounds that increase cognition and repair.

C. Clinical trials in various CNS disorders e.g. traumatic, vascular, neurodegenerative.
Lead Guest Editor
  • Ashraf Ahmed Mahmoud Zaher

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

Guest Editors
  • Mohammed Ahmed Gamal ElSherif

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Azza Elmongui Elmongui Mohamed

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Saleh Mohamed Saleh Attia

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Abdel halim El Tantawy Bdeir

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Mohamed Saad Shehab-Eldin

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Ahmed Gamal Elsayed Azab

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Mohammed Galal Elkhatib

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Mohammed AbdELSalam Mohamed Ali

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Ashraf Abdel Moneim El-Mitwalli

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Hassan Hussein Hassan Salama

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Ibrahim Elsayed Hassan Elmishawy

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Mohamad Abu-Hegazy Mohamad Hegazy

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Wael Mohamed Mohamed Gabr Elmaghraby

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Osama Ahmed Mohhamed Abdel-Salam

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Tamer Mohamed Ibrahim Ibrahim Belal

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Ahmed Ismail Ahmed Mahmoud

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Mohamed Elsayed Mahmoud Elsayed Ahmed

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Wesam Fathy Mohamed Mostafa

    Faculty of medicine, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt