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It is with great pleasure that I welcome a new member
to the Editorial Board of the Neuroendocrinology Letters, David
Cibula, M.D., Ph.D. from the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology of the Medical Faculty at the Charles University
in Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Cibula, who has significant publication
activity in the field of endocrinology and who is a member of
the Executive Board of European Society of Contraception, was
proposed to become a member of our Editorial Board by Professor
Vit Unzeitig, M.D., a leading obstetrician, gynecologist and
perinatologist in the Czech Republic, Professor of Obstetrics
and Gynecology of the Medical Faculty, at the Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic.
Professor
Unzeitig kindly accepted my invitation to become a Co-Editor
of the International Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology
and Medicine (ISSN 0943-5417). Together with Professor Rudolf
Klimek from Cracow, Professor Leo Leader from Sydney, Professor
Karel Maršál and Professor Jorge César Martinez
from Buenos Aires, he will be in charge of the perinatology
section of the Journal.
These
two Journals, the Neuroendocrinology Letters incl. Psychoneuroimmunology
& Chronobiology and the International Journal of Prenatal
and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine, are already cooperating
closely and the aim is to amplify the scientific exchange between
these two large fields in a kind a “cross-fertilization”.
In
both Journals we intend to publish the contents of the latest
issue of the respective Journal and the authors of both Journals
are welcome to submit papers to either one.
I
would like to use this opportunity to introduce you to other
new Co-Editors of the Int. J. Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology
and Medicine (you will find the complete list in the separate
ad in this Journal):
Dr.
E. N. Adamson-Macedo from University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Dr. Adamson-Macedo should be given great credit for developing
a new branch within psychoneuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology
during the last years, i. e. neonatal psychoneuroimmunology
which I would like to enlarge with the psychoneuroimmunology
of the whole prenatal and perinatal period of life.
Professor
Dr. Med. Dr. h.c. Günter Dörner (Director Emeritus),
Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Humboldt University
Medical School (Charité), Berlin, Germany, known as one
of the founders of functional teratology. One of his main fields
of scientific interest is the sexual differentiation of the
brain and its biochemical, physiological, morphological, clinical
and psychological aspects. He contributed significantly to both
Jornals with papers on “Significance of Hormones and Neurotransmitters
in Prenatal and Early Postnatal Life for human Ontogenesis”,
“Hormone-Dependent Brain Development and Behavior”,
“The Ontogenetic Theses for Promotion of Health and Primary
Prevention of Important Diseases by a Prenatal and Early Postnatal
Neuro-Endocrine-Immune Prophylaxis”. Already in 1986 he
was one of the most eminent speakers at the World Congress of
Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine in Badgastein,
Austria. His paper was published in Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology
and Medicine, Encounter with the Unborn, the Parthenon Publishing
Group, Carnforth 1988 (ISBN 0-940813-24-6). His scientific merits
cover the fields of both Journals, Neuroendocrinology, Psychoneuroimmunology,
Chronobiology and Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine,
in an outstanding way.
Professor
Franz Halberg, M.D., Director, Halberg Chronobiology Center,
Universitity of Minnesota, Mayo Hospital, Minneapolis, USA,
a pioneer of the field of Chronobiology, the former Editor-in-Chief
of the distinguished Journal “Chronobiologia”, introduced
to the Neuroendocrinology Letters a series of papers in this
field. Franz Halberg posited time as the undisputed fourth dimension
in biology and thus created one of the fundamental laws within
the bio-medical sciences. “Chronome” derived from
chronos (time), nomos (rule, law) and in the case of biological
chronomes, chromosomes, describes features in time, just as
cells characterize the spatial organization of life. In his
recent paper (Vol. 22, No. 1. 2001), he stressed the importance
of understanding that there is no alternative for complex science,
biological or other, than to map the dynamics, in us and around
us, of chronomics. Professor Halberg will significantly enrich
the Int. J. of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine
by applying the Science of Chronobiology to the prenatal and
perinatal dimensions of human life: The Prenatal and Perinatal
Chronobiology.
Professor
Andrzej Piotrowski, M.D., Director of the Institute of Psychiaty
and Neurology in Warsaw, Poland, past President of the Polish
Psychiatric Society and past member of the Committee of the
World Psychiatric Association, contributed to the Int. J. of
Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (JPPPM -
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on the topic of drug addiction and other toxic influences during
pregnancy and their effect on the newborn child. There is a
vital need in the JPPPM for a psychiatric expertise about the
prenatal and perinatal stage of life and its impact on the postnatal
development of the individual.
Professor
Vit Unzeitig, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
of the Medical Faculty at the Masaryk University of Brno, Czech
Republic, belongs to one of the outstanding authorities on Perinatology
in Europe, Member of the Executive Board of FIGO (The International
Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics) since 1994, he is
a member of the Executive Committee of EAGO (European Association
of Gynecologists and Obstetricians) and former President of
the Czech Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (1993–1997).
He is the author of a great number of publications in the fields
of obstetrics, gynecology and perinatology in the leading world
Journals. Together with Professor Rudolf Klimek from Cracow,
Professor Leo Leader from Sydney, Professor Karel Maršál
and Professor Jorge César Martinez from Buenos Aires,
he will be in charge of the Perinatology Section of the JPPPM
Journal ( pdf, show
image).
I
would like to announce the opportunity to introduce the joint
subscription of both these Journals at a substancially reduced
price. The details will be published in the next issue of the
Neuroendocrinology Letters.
I
would also like to draw your attention to the forthcoming International
Symposium on “Melatonin: clinical significance and therapeutic
application” in Polanica Zdroj, Poland, 30.9–3.10.2001,
with Chairman Prof. Dr. Michal Karasek. You will find the Announcement
and additional information in this issue (page 80).
Peter G. Fedor-Freybergh
Editor-in-Chief
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