Brain Health, a new peer-reviewed journal from Genomic Press, launches today with an inaugural issue anchored by an interview with neuroscientist Luísa Pinto of the University of Minho, whose two-decade pursuit of newborn astrocytes has reshaped how the field understands recovery from depression. The journal, edited by Ma-Li Wong, is designed to convene the fields of cognitive reserve, longevity, sleep science, aging biology, nutritional psychiatry, behavioral intervention, neuroimaging, normative data, and the social sciences and humanities around a shared question: how do human brains remain resilient, recover when injured, and stay functional across the longest possible arc of a life?

Psychiatrist and clinical researcher Gonçalo Cotovio, MD, PhD, of the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, argues in a new Genomic Press interview that focal brain lesions offer something the field of psychiatry almost never has: a foothold in causality. By mapping the networks connected to lesions that produce mania or obsessive-compulsive symptoms, Cotovio and collaborators aim to move psychiatry beyond correlation toward mechanisms that can be engaged therapeutically. His program ultimately aims to bring together lesion network mapping of psychiatric disorders with connectivity-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation and has already seeded the first therapeutic TMS trial at his unit.