Welcome to eNeurologicalSci (eNS)!

Neurology is now well beyond being just a great specialty with a logical approach to a varied spectrum of interesting disorders. Gratifyingly, decades of nihilism in neurologic care have been replaced with a sense of buoyancy, as rapidly emerging data foster improved understanding of pathophysiology and resolve longstanding clinical equipoise surrounding many therapeutic interventions. Also, technological progress in media communication has grown in leaps and bounds thereby allowing quicker dissemination and broader discussion of seminal research findings. Indeed, even greater new discoveries and further technological advances likely lie ahead. However, these encouraging scientific advances, clinical care enhancements, and media highlights, have primarily been led by researchers in high income countries (HIC) largely to the benefit of citizens of these countries, even though the global burden of neurological disease disproportionately afflicts citizens in lowor middle-income countries (LMIC) [1]. For instance, data from sub-Saharan Africa show a rising stroke epidemic, [2,3] while in many HIC over the last two decades, there has been an impressive decline in stroke incidence and mortality [4–7]. Moreover, many LMIC lack the neuroscience workforce required to better understand and address the toll of neurological disease. Perhaps it is also not surprising that there is only a modest contribution from LMIC to the frontiers of research in neuroscience, as evidenced by the relative paucity of publications from these countries in neurology/neuroscience journals [8]. It is with all of the aforementioned issues in mind, that Elsevier has launched on behalf of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) a new Open Access online-only journal, called eNeurologicalSci (eNS). eNS aspires to be at the global forefront of exciting research initiatives, functioning as a leading forum for the promotion of novel concepts as they pertain to discovery, diagnosis, treatment, and training in neurology and neuroscience. This resource aims to rapidly publish high-quality articles depicting new knowledge as it accrues across a broad research spectrum, with the potential for grasping mechanisms and informing management of diseases of the human nervous system. The journal especially serves as a venue for papers related to the fundamental mission of the WFN, accepting