Editorial on the Research Topic Autophagy in the central nervous system: Focus on neurons,glia and neuron-glia interactions Autophagy is a fundamental catabolic recycling process of the cell and plays an essential role in brain physiology and pathology. We can differentiate three major autophagy types that all degrade there cargo via the endo-lysosomal system; chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), microautophagy, and macroautophagy. CMA and microautophagy use cytosolic chaperone proteins to transport proteins directly to lysosomes or endosomes respectively. CMA requires the LAMP2A receptor on lysosomes for substrate binding, while microautophagy transfers the cargo by invagination of lysosomal and endosomal membranes. In contrast, macroautophagy (here after called autophagy) consists in the formation of an autophagic membrane that engulfs cytoplasmic material that than fuses with the lysosome to degrade the content.In this Research Topic, we bring together, a collection of articles that highlight the role of autophagy in the brain with particular view on neurons, neuroglia and synaptic compartments, dysregulation of autophagy in neurodegeneration, methods to detect, analyze and quantify autophagy as well as points of therapeutic opportunities in neurodegenerative disease.In neurons, autophagy presents cell specific adaptations. Neurons are highly polarized post-mitotic cells that are particularly sensitive to oxidative stress and the accumulation of dysfunctional and toxic proteins. Moreover, presynaptic compartments can lay sometimes fare away from the soma, have limited local translation mechanisms and these compartments host the areas where synaptic vesicles fuse with the plasma membrane to release neurotransmitter for communication with post synaptic site. The work from Decet and Verstreken summaries our current understanding of