The Frontiers in Neuroscience Series presents the insights of experts on emerging fields and theoretical concepts that are, or will be, at the vanguard of neuroscience.

The books cover new and exciting multidisciplinary areas of brain research and describe breakthroughs in fields like visual, gustatory, auditory, olfactory neuroscience, as well as aging and biomedical imaging. Recent books cover the rapidly evolving fields of multisensory processing, glia, depression, and different aspects of reward.

Each book is edited by experts and consists of chapters written by leaders in a particular field. The books are richly illustrated and contain comprehensive bibliographies. The chapters provide substantial background material relevant to the particular subject.

The goal is for these books to be the references every neuroscientist uses in order to acquaint themselves with new information and methodologies in brain research. I view my task as series editor to produce outstanding products that contribute to the broad field of neuroscience. Now that the chapters are available online, the effort put in by me, the publisher, and the book editors hopefully will contribute to the further development of brain research. To the extent that you learn from these books, we will have succeeded.

Sidney A. Simon

Duke University