Call for papers: JCMA Special Issue Supplement "Neuroscience and Anesthesiology: From Brain Mechanisms to Precision Perioperative Care". Submissions December 2026 – April 2027. 30% APC discount for accepted special issue articles.
📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue (Supplement)
Neuroscience and Anesthesiology: From Brain Mechanisms to Precision Perioperative Care
The Journal of Cellular & Molecular Anesthesia (JCMA) invites submissions to its Special Issue Supplement on neuroscience and anesthesiology.
Neuroscience is rapidly changing our understanding of anesthesia, consciousness, pain, cognition, brain networks and perioperative brain health. This special issue explores the meeting point of neuroscience and anesthesiology. It connects molecular and cellular mechanisms with systems neuroscience and clinical practice.
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Topics
- Molecular and cellular mechanisms of anesthetic action
- Neural circuits, brain networks and consciousness
- EEG, neurophysiology and brain-state monitoring
- Pain neuroscience and neuromodulation
- Perioperative cognitive dysfunction and delirium
- Neuroimaging and multimodal brain monitoring
- Computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence
- Brain–computer interfaces and neurotechnology
- Precision and personalized neuroanesthesia
Article types
Original Research, Systematic Reviews, Meta-analyses, Narrative Reviews, Perspectives and Methodological papers.
Who should submit
Anesthesiologists, neuroscientists, neurologists, neurophysiologists, pain researchers, neuroengineers, computational scientists, AI researchers and biomedical scientists.
Timeline
| Submissions open | December 2026 |
| Submission deadline | April 2027 |
| Peer review | January – June 2027 |
| Publication | August – October 2027 |
Peer review and editorial oversight
Special issue manuscripts receive the same editorial handling and independent external peer review as regular JCMA submissions, with additional methodological or statistical review where needed. See the journal's peer review process.
The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the content of this special issue, as for the whole journal. All papers must fall within the aims and scope of JCMA. Where the Editor-in-Chief is an author, the publisher appoints the handling editor, as set out in the journal's conflict of interest policy.
How to submit
Submit your manuscript through the JCMA online submission system. Please state in your cover letter that the manuscript is submitted for the special issue Neuroscience and Anesthesiology.
30% APC discount for this special issue
Articles submitted to this special issue during the campaign and accepted for publication receive a 30% discount on the article processing charge.
- We email the discount code to JCMA authors.
- If you have not received it, submit a ticket after your article is accepted, and we will send you the code.
- Enter the code when you pay the article processing charge.
Licence
Accepted articles are published open access under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
For questions, please submit a ticket to the editorial office.
Kind regards,
Prof. Ali Dabbagh
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cellular & Molecular Anesthesia