It is
my great pleasure and privilege to inform you, that our dear
and most esteemed friend, Professor Franz Halberg, a long
standing Associate Editor of this Journal has graciously accepted
my invitation to become an Honorary Editor of the Neuroendocrinology
Letters (NEL).
Professor Halberg and his co-workers at the Halberg Chronobiology
Center, namely Dr. Germaine Cornélissen and Dr. Othild
Schwarzkopff substantially contributed in the latest years
to the development of the Chronobiology Section in NEL. In
their highly appreciated yearly Season’s Appreciations
they have kept our readership updated together with their
most distinguished colleagues and co-workers worldwide with
the latest knowledge and research in this field.
In November
this year Prof. Franz Halberg, together with
Prof. Alain Reinberg from Unité de Chronobiologie,
Foundation A. de Rothschild in Paris, was awarded the prestigious
Arnold-Lucius-Gesell Award 2002 at the University
of Munich, under auspices of the Theodor-Hellbruegge-Stiftung.
Prof. Halberg co-ordinated in Munich the International Interdisciplinary
Conference on “Time structures – chronomes –
in child development”. Papers from this Conference will
be published in the NEL as Supplement 1, Vol 24, 2003 –
under his co-editorship together with Germaine Cornélissen,
Othild Schwarzkopff and Petra Niemeyer-Hellbruegge. This Supplement
is dedicated to professor Theodor Hellbruegge, who was granted
the position of an Honorary Editor of the International Journal
of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (Int. JPPM)
at this Symposium in Munich. (Please visit our website www.nel.edu
for more information about the contents of this Supplement
and other details).
I should
further take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude
to Professor Ladislav Šoltés, M.D., Ph.D., Director
of the Institute of Medical Ethics at the Slovak Health University
in Bratislava and Head of Chair of Social Work, Faculty of
Health and Social Work at Trnava University, Slovak Republic,
who kindly accepted my invitation to join the Editorial Board
of the Neuroendocrinology Letters. Professor Šoltés,
who has been Member of the Board of Associate Editors of the
Int. JPPM for many years, has devoted substantial time of
his very productive and creative career within paediatrics
and social health to the issues of Medical Ethics. We are
proud to have him with us also in this Journal.
The publication
activities of the NEL in the past year were very productive.
Besides of the regular volume, which was published in time
and close this year with the present double issue, NEL Vol.
23, Nos 5/6 December 2002, we have published two Supplements,
one on Melatonin (April
2002) and one on Light,
Endocrine Systems and Cancer (July 2002), a Special Issue
in September 2002 on Peptides
and Aging by Vladimir Khavinson, a Supplement on Time
structures – chronomes – in child development –
Part I, in November 2002 and finally the Special
Issue on Human Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology (Editors:
Bernhard Fink and Karl Grammer), as of December 20, 2002.
Please find more detailed information about those Supplements
and Special Issues on www.nel.edu and on the inner back cover
of the present issue.
We also
are very proud and happy to announce that the ZDENEK
KLEIN AWARD for the year 2002 was granted to
Jaak Panksepp, Joseph R. Moskal, Jules B. Panksepp
and Roger A. Kroes, from the Center for Neuroscience,
Mind & Behavior and Department of Psychology and Department
of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Ohio,
USA, and from the Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics and
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University,
USA, respectively, for their Review Article ‘Comparative
Approaches in Evolutionary Psychology: Molecular Neuroscience
Meets the Mind’, which is published in the Special
Issue ‘Human Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology’
(Neuroendocrinol Lett Vol. 23, Special Issue, Supplement 4,
December 2002).
The ZDENEK
KLEIN AWARD will be presented at the Charles University and,
for the initiating years 2001–2002, a joint ceremony
for Recipients will be held in Prague in May 2003 under the
auspices of the Faculty of Humanities (Dean, Prof. Jan
Sokol, Ph.D.) the Faculty of Science, (Dean, Prof.
Ing. Karel Stulík, DrSc.) and the 3rd
Faculty of Medicine (Prof. Cyril Höschl
M.D., DrSc., Director of the Prague Psychiatric Centre). The
Homage
written by these distinguished colleagues from the Charles
University is published in the Special Issue on Human Ethology
and Evolutionary Psychology. I should like to take this opportunity
to express my profound gratitude to them as well as to Doc.
Zbynek Šmahel, Ph.D., and to Doc.
Ivan Mazura, Ph.D., from the Faculty of Science,
for their invaluable initiative and support.
The names of the first laureates for the year 2001
and 2002
confirm the importance and the great value of this Award (more
on our website www.nel.edu )
From this
year onwards, Neuroendocrinology Letters has been published
in concert with the Int. JPPM by the “Society of Integrated
Sciences”, thereby emphasizing the interdisciplinary
and integrative character of both Journals, working together
in mutual “cross-fertilization”.
All of
us – the management of Neuroendocrinology Letters, the
International Journal of Prenatal Psychology and Medicine
and the Society of Integrated Sciences – like cordially
congratulate our dear friend, Member of the Editorial Board
of the Neuroendocrinology Letters, Honorary Editor of the
Int. J. of Prenatal Psychology and Medicine, and Past-President
of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology
and Medicine Professor Rudi Klimek on his 70th
birthday, December 12, 2002.
The present
double issue opens with the Guest
Editorial by Professor Marianne Hassler,
a long standing Member of our Editorial Board, and most respected
and distinguished friend and supporter of Neuroendocrinolgy
Letters, who has submitted papers of highest quality to this
Journal during the passage of time.
We are
most sincerely indebted to all distinguished Authors, who
submitted their excellent work to this double issue: both
Original Research Papers, Clinical Studies, Review Articles
and most valuable Letters to the Editor.
It is my wish to express my most respectful gratitude to all
of you, who contributed with your outstanding work to the
Neuroendocrinology Letters during the past year 2002, and
thus significantly enhancing its scientific quality and reputation,
and contributed to its promotion within various scientific
communities worldwide. I wish you from all my heart a very
happy start to the New Year 2003, good health, success, prosperity
and happiness throughout all of this new coming year.
We from Neuroendocrinology Letters are very much looking forward
to a continuous, successful and creative cooperation with
you, and once more wish to express our sincere appreciation
for your consistent faithfulness toward us.
Prof.
Peter G. Fedor-Freybergh
Editor-in-Chief: Neuroendocrinology Letters
