It is with delight that I have the privilege to start my Editorial
introducing Professor George B. Stefano as a new member
of the Board of Associate Editors of the Neuroendocrinology
Letters (NEL).
Professor
Stefano, Ph.D. – State University of New York/College
at Old Westbury, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Biological
Sciences and Director, Old Westbury Neuroscience Institute,
New York, USA – has graciously accepted my invitation
to join the Board of Associate Editors of this Journal after
being a Member of the Editorial Board of the NEL from January
2002. Since then he, together with his coworkers, has published
in the NEL four excellent Review papers as well as an outstanding
Original Research paper. All these contributions became most
read articles by the visitors worldwide on our web site www.nel.edu.
Professor
Stefano has published over 400 distinguished scientific papers;
served as Editor and Member with several outstanding scientific
Journals, including: Founder and Member of the Editorial Board
of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (1979), Co-Editor &
Founder of the International Journal Advances in Neuroimmunology
(1990), Associate Editor of the Journal of Neuroimmunology
(1998), Editor of Modern Aspects of Immunobiology (1999),
Editor of Medical Science Monitor (2001), and others.
From
the very beginning of his engagement with this Journal he
has been most committed to the scientific development of the
NEL and its promotion both in the United States and in Europe.
I am very confident that Professor Stefano's cooperation with
me, with the other Associate Editors and with the whole Editorial
Board will significantly enhance both further scientific development
and the status of this Journal within the scientific community
worldwide.
I
am very glad to inform you that Professor Pavel Traubner,
M.D., Ph.D., Dean of the Comenius University School of Medicine,
Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Medical Faculty
in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, has graciously accepted my
invitation to join the Editorial Board of the Neuroendocrinology
Letters.
In
this issue of the Journal, we are publishing two excellent
Review Articles by George B. Stefano and coworkers
– Mads Rasmussen et al. and Tobias Esch
et al.; excellent Original Research Papers by Michel Salzet
& Martine Verger-Bocquet; Raphael Luboshitzky
et al.; Jian-Xiang Liu & Ji-Zeng Du; distinguished
Original Articles by Denise Bellingham-Young &
Elvidina Adamson-Macedo; Paolo Lissoni et al.;
Veralice M. S. de Bruin et al.; Andrea Tamás
et al.; two clinical research papers by Beata Kos-Kudla
et al.; and an excellent Original Research Report by Hans
Joerg Stuerenburg et al.
A
most significant Book Review 'Self-organized system
time: An interdisciplinary discussion of the modelling of
living systems based on internal rhythms' (Deppert W, Köther
K, Kralemann B, Lattmann C, Martens N, Schaefer J, eds) by
Franz Halberg, Germaine Cornelissen, Othild
Schwartzkopff and Earl E. Bakken is also published
in this issue of the NEL. The book reviewed is the first interdisciplinary
statement suggesting that science can solve the problems of
our society that indeed in the first volume for this purpose
focuses on chronobiology.
I
would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the authors
for their invaluable contributions to this issue of the Neuroendocrinology
Letters.
Peter G. Fedor-Freybergh
Editor-in-Chief: Neuroendocrinology Letters
