I think sports neurology will be a hot topic in 2016: The Impact of sedentary behavior / physical activity and exercise on neurological conditions (dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke and other neurodegenerative disorders).
Lau G, Kamalski J. Brain research: Mining emerging trends and top research concepts. Research Trends December 2014. http://www.researchtrends.com/issue-39-december-2014/brain-research/
Barahona-Corrêa JB, Camacho M, Castro-Rodrigues P, Costa R, Oliveira-Maia AJ. From Thought to Action: How the Interplay Between Neuroscience and Phenomenology Changed Our Understanding of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Front Psychol. 2015 Nov 23;6:1798. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01798/pdf
Meshi D, Tamir DI, Heekeren HR. The Emerging Neuroscience of Social Media. Trends Cogn Sci. 2015 Dec;19(12):771-82.
I think sports neurology will be a hot topic in 2016: The Impact of sedentary behavior / physical activity and exercise on neurological conditions (dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke and other neurodegenerative disorders).
Anything related to brain-computer interfacing and implantation of chips in the brain. That includes controlling prosthetic limbs directly with the mind, artificial eyes, hearing aids, brain-to-brain communication in experimental animals and controlling cursor movements on the screen with the brain.
In my own field of pain research, Latent Sensitization to pain as a new paradigm for chronic pain disorders.
Physiological relevance of receptor constitutive activity, i.e. agonist-independent activation.