Kostyuk, Rodolfo Llinás, and A.D. Smith as founding editors-in-chief and originally published by Pergamon Press.

[1][2] The current editor-in-chief is Juan Lerma Gómez (Spanish National Research Council).

The journal is published by Elsevier on behalf of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).

The journal continues the IBRO News section formerly published in Brain Research.

[8] As of 2018[update], the following articles are the most downloaded according to the publisher's data:[9]