Lifelong Brain Resilience & Longevity
The first journal dedicated to the science of sustaining, protecting, and optimizing brain function across the entire human lifespan. Not a journal of brain disease. A journal of how brains stay well.
The phrase "mental health" has become a polite circumlocution for mental illness. Brain health is a fundamentally different proposition.
It begins not with disease but with the intact, functioning organ and asks what sustains that function, what threatens it, and what restores it when it falters.
Spans the full landscape of brain disorders from origins to treatment. Its lens encompasses neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, and all clinical brain disciplines organized around pathology, diagnosis, and intervention.
Trained on the conditions, mechanisms, and interventions that keep brains working well. Rooted in resilience, in the biology of cognitive and emotional vitality, and in the conviction that understanding how brains remain well is as necessary as understanding how they become ill.
We publish across the full methodological range, united by a single organizing question: how do brains remain resilient, and how can that resilience be sustained and restored?
Neural resilience mechanisms, synaptic maintenance, neuroprotective pathways, genomics, and proteomics of brain health.
Cognitive reserve, functional restoration, neurogenesis, and the neurobiology of how brains weather insults that devastate others.
Cerebrovascular contributions to brain health, metabolic regulation, immune surveillance, and the gut-brain axis.
Sleep neuroscience, nutritional neuroscience, exercise science, and behavioral interventions for cognitive longevity.
Population-level cognitive trajectories, modifiable risk factors, computational modeling, and digital health technologies.
Brain health as public policy, lifespan strategies for cognitive preservation, and the social and behavioral determinants of brain resilience.
Brain Health and Brain Medicine share a conviction that brain science must be integrative and translational. The overlap between them is a strength, not a redundancy.
The full landscape of brain disorders: from molecular origins to clinical treatment, spanning neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, radiology, ophthalmology, and otology. Featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Nature, and 6,000+ news stories worldwide.
The science of sustaining and optimizing brain function throughout life. Neural resilience, cognitive vitality, neuroprotection, and the conditions under which brains thrive from childhood through aging. A fundamentally different starting point: the intact, working organ.
Some studies speak naturally to both journals. We encourage authors to choose
the venue whose emphasis best fits the framing of their work.
Every article is immediately and permanently free to readers worldwide. No embargoes, no paywalls, no restrictions. Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright. Content preserved in perpetuity through Portico.
Genomic Press is owned and operated by academics, for academics. Surplus revenues are reinvested in journal development, not extracted as profits.
No Publication Charges
For the entire 2026 launch year, all article processing charges are waived. Publish your research in Brain Health at no cost to you.
Standard APC rates will be announced for 2027. Genomic Press remains committed to keeping publication accessible to researchers regardless of funding levels.
How do we keep our brains working well, for as long as possible? If your work addresses that question, Brain Health is your home.