Welcome
to this double issue
Volume 24 numbers 3/4 of the Neuroendocrinology Letters. This
issue with most exciting contents, starts with a large introductory
section by Professor George Stefano, including Preface--Guest
Editorial on ‘Estrogen Genomic and Nongenomic Signaling
Processes’ followed by two Original Research Papers
(together with Wei Zhu, Kirk Mantione, Dolisha Jones, Elliott
Salamon, John J. Cho, Patrick Cadet) and a Review Article
(together with John J. Cho, Francesco A. Iannucci, Melissa
Fraile, Joseph Franco, Tracy N. Alesius) ‘The
Role of the Estrogen in Neuroprotection: Implications for
Neurodegenerative Diseases’
Two Invited Review Articles follow: ‘Order
and disorder in the brain function’ by Olga Quadens,
Brussels, Belgium, and ‘Etiopathogenensis
of Graves’ disease by Michal Karasek and Andrzej
Lewinski, Lodz, Poland.
After
those Review articles follows the Letter to the Editor ‘Is
ADHD adaptive or non-adaptive behavior?’ by Zdenek
Matejcek, a leading Czech clinical psychologist, author
and co-author of several books on psychological deprivation
in childhood and principal investigator of the longitudinal
study ‘Children born from unwanted pregnancies’
for which work he was awarded by the American Psychological
Associations (APA) in 1989. In 1993 he was awarded by APA
for Distinguished Contributions on International Advancement
of Psychology.
We
are happy to present a Case
Report by Rob Dickerman, Chris Overby, Mark
Eisenberg, Peter Hollis & Mitchell Levine from Department
of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, North Shore University
Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA, colleagues who are publishing
on the pages of this journal for the first time.
I would very much like to introduce to you all the following
nineteen original papers and their authors in particular.
I apologize for not being able to do so due to limited space.
I would like to emphasize my deep gratitude to all these distinguished
colleagues who contributed to this issue with their outstanding
work.
However, let me welcome to this issue the colleagues who submitted
their work to the Neuroendocrinology Letters for the
first time, to whom I would like to express my special appreciation,
namely, Khalid
Z. Matalka from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medical
Technology, University of Petra, Amman, JORDAN; Hajime
Fukui and Masako Yamashita from the Nara University
of Education, Nara, JAPAN; Giuseppe
Bersani,
Monica Mameli, Alessandra Garavini, Paolo Pancheri
from the 3rd Psychiatric Clinic, Department of Psychiatric
Sciences and Psychological Medicine, and Maurizio Nordio from
Department of Medical Physiopathology, University of Rome
"La Sapienza", Rome, ITALY.
It
is my great pleasure and privilege to inform you that two
illustrious and highly esteemed colleagues have graciously
accepted my invitation to the position as Honorary Editors
of the Neuroendocrinology Letters, namely Professor Rudolf
Klimek, M.D., DrSc., Dr.h.c., FRSM, Chair and
Department of Endocrinology and Fertility, Medical College,
Jagellonian University, Kraków, POLAND;
Professor Branislav
Lichardus, M.D.,PhD.,DSc., Senior Researcher,
Inst. of Experimental Endocrinology, Slovak Academy of
Sciences and Rector, College of Management (City University
Programs), President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1992-1996),
Bratislava, SLOVAK REPUBLIC;
Also,
let me most cordially welcome the following colleagues who
kindly accepted my invitation to join the Board of Editors
of the Neuroendocrinology Letters, who are named here in the
order of appointment date:
Professor Rafael
Luboshitzky, M.D., Endocrine Institute, Haemek
Medical Center, Afula, ISRAEL
Assoc. Prof. Alfred Reron, M.D.,. Dept. of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Medical Faculty, Jagellonian University, Cracow,
POLAND;
Eva Kellerova,
M.D., PhD., DSc., Senior Researcher, and former Director,
of the Inst. of Normal and Pathological Physiology, Slovak
Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SLOVAK REPUBLIC;
Prof. MUDr. Jirí
Raboch, DrSc. Director, Psychiatric Department,
1st. Medical School, Charles University and General Faculty
Hospital, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC;
Gamal
H. A. El-Sokkary, Ph.D., Zoology Department,
Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, EGYPT; and
Prof. Andreas
Plagemann, M.D., Head of the Division of Experimental
Obstetrics, Clinic of Obstetrics, Campus Virchow-Klinikum,
Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, GERMANY.
On
May 21, 2003 the Ceremony for the Zdenek Klein Award for the
best work in the fields of Integrated Sciences within Human
Ethology published in the Neuroendocrinology Letters, was
held at the Charles University, Prague under the Auspices
of the Faculty of Humanities (Dean, Prof. Jan Sokol, Ph.D.)
the Faculty of Science (Dean, Prof. Pavel Kovár, Ph.D.),
and the 3rd Faculty of Medicine, (Prof. Cyril Höschl,
M.D., DrSc., Director of the Prague Psychiatric Centre) and
the Society of Integrated Sciences with the Seat in Bratislava,
Slovak Republic (President, JUDr. Juraj Anetta).
The Recipients for the year 2001 were Prof. Karl Grammer,
Dr. Michaela Atzmueller and Dr. Bernhard Fink, Vienna, Austria
and James V. Kohl, Nevada, USA; for the year 2002 Prof. Jaak
Panksepp, Ph.D., Joseph R. Moskal, Ph.D., Jules B. Panksepp,
M.S., Roger A. Kroes, Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University,
USA. The ceremony was also attended by Austrian, Estonian
and Slovak Ambassadors. The Ambassador of US could not be
present due to other commitments outside of country. We most
cordially congratulate all the recipients for their outstanding
work (the Award-winning papers were published in the Neuroendocrinology
Letters Vol. 22 No.5,
October 2001, and in the Supplement ‘Human
Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology’ NEL Suppl.
4, Vol. 23, 2003).
Inside of this issue you will find a photo-collage
from the Ceremony.
In
September this year a Supplement ‘Time
structures – chronomes – in child development’
honoring the work of Prof. Theodor Hellbrügge (Editor:
Germaine Cornélissen, Co-Editors: Othild Schwartzkopff,
Petra Niemeyer-Hellbruegge and Franz Halberg) will be published
as NEL Supplement 1, Vol. 24, 2003. The contents is displayed
online at
http://www.nel.edu/24_s1/Time-structures-in-child-development_PREVIEW.htm
The preliminary Preview of the next coming issues of the NEL,
October and December 2003 is displayed online at http://www.nel.edu/Press/Latest_from-the-office.htm
Those,
interested to order the NEL Supplements 1 and 2, 2002: ‘MELATONIN,
Clinical Significance and Therapeutic Application’
and ‘Light,
Endocrine Systems and Cancer’, (contents online at
http://www.nel.edu/Press/Melatonin.htm)
and are now available at a package price of USD 76.00. Please
contact the publisher@nel.edu
The
contents of NEL Volume 23, 2002 was published in the latest
issue, Feb-Apr 2003, and at
http://www.nel.edu/24_12/NEL24122003.htm
http://www.nel.edu/24_12/NEL241203X01_CONTENTS-2002.htm
For
your information: On June 15, 2003, ISI has released the Impact
Factor for the Neuroendocrinology Letters for the current
year – 1.278.
Closing
this Editorial, I would like to express my deep gratitude
and appreciation to all the Authors and Readers for your most
valuable interest in Neuroendocrinology Letters and for your
friendly cooperation with us.
Prof.
Peter G. Fedor-Freybergh
Editor-in-Chief: Neuroendocrinology Letters
