Editorial: APPNING: Animal Population Imaging

Editorial: MAPPING: MAnagement and Processing of Images for Population ImagiNG

Editorial: concepts of animal welfare.

Four of the papers (by Donald Broom, Lennart Nordenfelt, Kirsten Schmidt and Christine Leeb) in this issue of Acta Biotheoretica stem from a symposium on the theme ,,Concepts of animal welfare—interdisciplinary perspectives’’ that was held on 8–9 October 2009 in Bad Neuenahr (Germany), organised by the Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Ba...

Editorial : Imaging Tinnitus

Recent advances in functional imaging (FI) have opened new possibilities for understanding and ultimately treating tinnitus. Previously, tinnitus has been characterized by its perceptual properties (e.g., pitch, loudness, masking patterns) and its psychological properties (e.g., degree of distress), as well as its relationship to clinical findings such as abnormalities of the audiogram, the cer...

Editorial overview: Molecular imaging.

Optical microscopy is a very popular technique for investigating the living cell. Especially, far-field illumination in combination with fluorescence detection of tagged molecules such as proteins offers minimal invasiveness yet large specificity and sensitivity. Unfortunately, its full applicability is still limited due to several reasons. For example, introduction of a fluorescent label may s...

Editorial: Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with relatively stable prevalence rates estimated at about 0.5–1% (Saha et al., 2005). Schizophrenia is characterized by the occurrence of various psychopathological symptoms that have been described as positive symptoms (delusions and hallucinations), negative symptoms (apathy, lack of motivation, flat affect, poverty of speech, and social withdrawal), disor...