The Space Between Reaction and Regulation
ISSN Applied for · Peer-Reviewed · Quarterly
The Journal of Nervous System Intelligence
Volume
I
Issue No.
01
Season
Inaugural Issue
Year
2026
From the Editors
A permanent record for a new science.
The Journal of Nervous System Intelligence exists in the space between discovery and knowledge. It is the official scholarly publication of an emerging discipline — where new ideas become frameworks, frameworks become evidence, and evidence becomes understanding.
We welcome rigorous research, interdisciplinary collaboration, thoughtful debate, clinical insight, and new ways of understanding the human experience through the lens of the nervous system.
This is not merely a place where research is published. It is where a new scientific discipline builds its permanent record.
Aims & Scope
- 01
To preserve the scientific foundation of Nervous System Intelligence as it takes shape.
- 02
To publish rigorous original research at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, immunology, and lived experience.
- 03
To hold the citational record of the field with peer-review integrity, full disclosure, and quiet correction where correction is due.
- 04
To welcome interdisciplinary voices — including clinicians, researchers, and thoughtful practitioners from adjacent fields.
Sections of the Journal
Original Research
Empirical studies, novel methods, replications.
Reviews
Careful summaries of current evidence, written for the field.
Clinical Perspectives
Position pieces from clinicians on how the science lives in the room.
Case Studies
Composite, ethically anonymised.
Position Papers
Where the Institute takes a stance and holds it in the open.
Editorial & Correspondence
Debate, response, correction.
In this Issue
Volume I · Issue 01
Editorial
On Founding a Journal for a Discipline That Does Not Yet Exist.
The Editorial Board
Original Research
The Neurobiology of the Space Between: A Pilot Study of Cognitive Reappraisal Latency Across Regulatory States.
Forthcoming
Position Paper
Toward a Nervous-System-Informed Standard of Care.
Forthcoming
Full papers, methods, and citations are held inside the master Library. The Journal never duplicates its archive here.
Editorial Leadership
The Nirva Institute Editorial Board
Held under the editorial standards of the Nirva Institute. Peer reviewers, associate editors, and disclosures are named alongside every paper in the Library.
Publication Schedule
Quarterly
Four issues per year. Established 2026. Submissions and correspondence open on a rolling basis via the Institute.
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One library. One search. One taxonomy. The Journal is a doorway into the same corpus every other collection at Nirva Life feeds into.
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