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Brain and Cognition

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16 November 2018

Serotonin 5-HT_1A receptor binding and self-transcendence in healthy control subjects—a replication study using Bayesian hypothesis testing

Gina Griffioen, Granville J. Matheson, Simon Cervenka, Lars Farde, Jacqueline Borg

Editor rating: 8 / 10

Kevin Black –– The authors do real science here, following up on an initial finding from a pilot study and reporting the outcome appropriately. That may sound obvious, but in the real world of research these days it is a delightful breath of fresh hair.

Clustering of fMRI data: the elusive optimal number of clusters

Editor rating: 9 / 10

Jafri Abdullah –– the number of clusters have always been debatable,

21 September 2018

Does Twitter language reliably predict heart disease? A commentary on Eichstaedt et al. (2015a)

Editor rating: 8 / 10

Tjeerd Boonstra –– The article re-examines the results of an influential paper and challenges the idea that social media data analysed on a county-level may provide a reliable predictor of health outcomes. The authors raise several questions on the reliability of data and study design that need to be addressed for this field going forward.

12 September 2018

Explanation of observational data engenders a causal belief about smoking and cancer

Section Editor rating: 7 / 10

Claire Fletcher-Flinn –– I agree with the reviewers comments re causality.

5 September 2018

Episodix: a serious game to detect cognitive impairment in senior adults. A psychometric study

Section Editor rating: 7 / 10

Stephen Macknik –– This advance will potentially have significant impact in diagnosis and therapeutic tracking for mild cognitive impairment.

The influence of residual force enhancement on spinal and supraspinal excitability

Editor rating: 7 / 10

Tjeerd Boonstra –– The paper further enhances our understanding of muscle mechanics and muscular contraction

A computer-based avatar task designed to assess behavioral inhibition extends to behavioral avoidance but not cognitive avoidance

Editor rating: 7 / 10

Jafri Abdullah –– Methodology looks interesting and reproducible

Illusory resizing of the painful knee is analgesic in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis

Section Editor rating: 7 / 10

Stephen Macknik –– The use of illusory size changes to body parts—as an analgesic method—is amazing and new. The public will take notice.

Assessing metacognitive beliefs about worry: validation of German versions of the Why Worry Scale II and the Consequences of Worry Scale

Editor rating: 7 / 10

Antonio Palazón-Bru –– A scientific evidence to use the German version of the analyzed questionnaire.

Safe exposure distances for transcranial magnetic stimulation based on computer simulations

Editor rating: 7 / 10

Joao Rocha –– In this theoretical paper, the authors have calculated the safe occupational distance for transcranial magnetic stimulation. Of importance, they have indcated the use of a more conservative distance (0.96-1.46 m) instead of 0.7 m found in the literature.

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Academic Editors

Average h-index of Editorial Board: 39

Abdullah

Kubke

Coyne

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Damasio

Lasmezas

van Os

Perry

Soares

Holstein

Giugliano

Ben-Ari

Wisden

Morrison

Kowall

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