Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology publishes original contributions of international importance in the fields of brain physiology, psychopharmacology, neuroendocrinology, neurogenetics, psychophysiology and neurochemistry, as well as in the anatomy and pathology of the nervous system. The focus of the journal is basic research related to brain function and behavior, cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying higher brain functions. Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology also publishes translations of papers selected from top Russian journals in the fields of the brain physiology and neurology, describing significant results of basic studies on the nervous system. Priority is given to new experimental findings.