Dear Reader,

As we reach the final issue of CNS Drugs for 2018, we wish to reflect on another successful year’s achievements, and to thank all those who have contributed their time and effort to guarantee the high quality of our content.

2018 was a successful year for CNS Drugs. Over 80 articles have been published; the most popular of these, in terms of downloads from SpringerLink, have been:

  • J Quezada, KA Coffman. Current Approaches and New Developments in the Pharmacological Management of Tourette Syndrome

  • TL Wigal, JH Newcorn, N Handal et al. A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase II Study to Determine the Efficacy, Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of a Controlled Release (CR) Formulation of Mazindol in Adults with DSM-5 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

  • LW Elmer, JL Juncos, C Singer et al. Pooled Analyses of Phase III Studies of ADS-5102 (Amantadine) Extended-Release Capsules for Dyskinesia in Parkinson’s Disease

  • JA Hey, P Kocis, J Hort et al. Discovery and Identification of an Endogenous Metabolite of Tramiprosate and Its Prodrug ALZ-801 that Inhibits Beta Amyloid Oligomer Formation in the Human Brain

  • B Weinstock-Guttman, J Medin, N Khan et al. Assessing ‘No Evidence of Disease Activity’ Status in Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Receiving Fingolimod in Routine Clinical Practice: A Retrospective Analysis of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Outcomes in the USA (MS-MRIUS) Study

  • S Faissner, R Gold. Efficacy and Safety of the Newer Multiple Sclerosis Drugs Approved Since 2010

  • DR Coghill, T Banaschewski, C Bliss et al. Cognitive Function of Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in a 2-Year Open-Label Study of Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate

  • AK Jönsson, J Schill, H Olsson et al. Venous Thromboembolism During Treatment with Antipsychotics: A Review of Current Evidence

  • MW Jann, SR Penzak. Long-Acting Injectable Second-Generation Antipsychotics: An Update and Comparison Between Agents

  • P Damkier, P Videbech. The Safety of Second-Generation Antipsychotics During Pregnancy: A Clinically Focused Review

The quality of articles published in the journal is also reflected in its most recent impact factor (4.206). CNS Drugs is currently ranked 38th in the ‘Clinical Neurology’ category (of 197 journals) and 27th in the ‘Psychiatry’ category (of 142 journals).

Other journals in the Adis Premier Journals Portfolio (http://www.springer.com/gp/adis) continue to prosper, with substantial increases in usage year-on-year. In addition, this year has seen Applied Health Economics and Health Policy receive its first impact factor.

We thank the authors who have contributed articles to CNS Drugs over the course of 2018. The skill and dedication of all authors are critical to the continued publication of the journal. The quality of published articles is also testament to the significant efforts of the peer reviewers, whose commitment ensures that the journal’s content is held to the highest possible standard. We would like to thank the following individuals who acted as reviewers for CNS Drugs in the last 12 months:

Marie A. Abate, USA

James B. Adams, USA

Harold P. Adams, USA

Giovanni Addolorato, Italy

Jane Alcorn, Canada

Dan Alford, USA

Sharon S. Allen, USA

David Allsop, Australia

Sura Alwan, Canada

Maria Pia Amato, Italy

Thomas Arendt, Germany

Ester Aso Perez, Spain

Eric Augier, Sweden

A. George Awad, Canada

Sarah Bailey, UK

Marit Stordal Bakken, Norway

Trino T. Baptista, Venezuela

Corrado Barbui, Italy

Alessio Baricich, Italy

Damiano Baroncini, Italy

E. Martina Bebin, USA

C. Behl, Germany

Vincenzo Belcastro, Italy

Alfredo Bellon, USA

Elinor Ben-Menachem, Sweden

Frank M.C. Besag, UK

David Q. Beversdorf, USA

Sophie Billioti de Gage, France

Miquel Bioque, Spain

Peter Blanken, Den Haag, the Netherlands

Esther M. Blessing, USA

Marie-Laure Bocca, France

Robert Bomprezzi, USA

Attilio Bondanza, Italy

Dennis N. Bourdette, USA

Alexander Ulrich Brandt, Germany

Sara R. Britnell, USA

Theodore Brown, USA

Patrik Brundin, USA

Michelle H. Cameron, USA

Craig Campbell, Canada

Claudia Cantoni, USA

Richard Carlson, USA

Marilyn Carroll, USA

Lois W. Choi-Kain, USA

Po-Han Chou, Taiwan

Roberto Cilia, Italy

Maria Roberta Cilio, USA

Keith A. Coffman, USA

Stanley Cohan, USA

Dan Cohen, the Netherlands

Nicolas Collongues, France

Carlo Colosimo, Italy

M.B. Connolly, Canada

Michael H. Connors, Australia

Ciro Costagliola, Italy

Patricia K. Coyle, USA

Severine Crettol, Switzerland

Emanuele D’amico, Italy

Stefano de Biase, Italy

Darryl C. De Vivo, USA

Marion Delenclos, USA

Thérèse Di Paolo, Canada

Frédéric Dorandeu, France

Sophie Drapier, France

Deepak C. D’Souza, USA

Susan Duty, UK

Gunter P. Eckert, Germany

Elizabeth Eckman, USA

Gilles Edan, France

Lars Edvinsson, Sweden

Tom Eke, UK

Genevieve Evin, Australia

A. Eden Evins, USA

Oscar Fernandez, Spain

Javier Fernandez-Ruiz, Spain

Max Fink, USA

Robert Flanagan, UK

Richard R. Foltin, USA

Francina Fonseca, Spain

Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, Greece

Samuel Frank, USA

Mark Steven Freedman, Canada

Frederick G. Freitag, USA

Thomas Frisell, Sweden

Laura J. Frishman, USA

Maximilian Gahr, Germany

Charly Gaul, Germany

Ujjayini Ghosh, USA

Eliana Gianolio, Italy

Asier Gómez-Ibáñez, Spain

Joshua D. Grill, USA

Ewout J.N. Groen, UK

Renate Grohmann, Germany

Elizabeth Gromisch, USA

Renzo Guerrini, Italy

Britta Haenisch, Germany

Daniel M. Hartung, USA

Mehrul Hasnain, Canada

Eva Havrdova, Czech Republic

Joel W. Hay, USA

Tracy Hellem, USA

Claire Henchcliffe, USA

Andrew G. Herzog, USA

Hubertus Himmerich, UK

Dusan Hirjak, Germany

Lawrence J. Hirsch, USA

Tarekegn G. Hiwot, UK

Guenter Hoeglinger, Germany

Kara Holloway, Australia

Christian Holscher, UK

Martin Holtkamp, Germany

Michelle A. Hook, USA

Fay B. Horak, USA

Richard James Huntsman, Canada

Philippe Huot, Canada

A. Husain, USA

Lara S. Hwa, USA

Pietro Iaffaldano, Italy

Patrick Imfeld, Switzerland

Bethan Impey, Southampton, UK

Benjamin Victor Ineichen, Switzerland

Zahinoor Ismail, Canada

Jan Jaracz, Poland

Roy William Jones, UK

Daniel Kantor, USA

Dorothée Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenite, the Netherlands

Regina Katzenschlager, Austria

Christoph Kellinghaus, Germany

Rita Khory, USA

Barbara Kiesel, Austria

Tae-Hoon Kim, Republic of Korea

Brent Michael Kious, USA

Ingo Kleiter, Germany

Jolanta H. Kotlinska, Poland

Abouch A.V. Krymchantowski, Brazil

Sung Woo Kwon, Republic of Korea

Athanassios P. Kyritsis, Greece

Cecilie Lander, Australia

Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre, France

Nicholas LaRocca, USA

John J. Lauriello, USA

Linda C. Laux, USA

Andrew Lawrence, Australia

Mary Lee, USA

Corinne A. Lee-Kubli, USA

Vladimir V. Lerner, Israel

Stefan Leucht, Germany

James H. Lewis, USA

Shen-Yang Lim, Malaysia

Dick Lindhout, the Netherlands

Paul S. Links, Canada

Michael Linnebank, Germany

Fernando H. Lopes da Silva, the Netherlands

Svetlana Lorenzano, USA

Andreas Lutterotti, Austria

Thomas Müller, Germany

Isla S. Mackenzie, UK

Malcolm Maclure, Canada

Panchanan Maiti, USA

Barbara Malawska, Poland

Gin S. Malhi, Australia

Heli H. Malm, Finland

David Mandelbaum, USA

Yang Mao-Draayer, USA

Kenneth Maravilla, USA

José Luis Marco-Contelles, Spain

Eric David Marsh, USA

Paolo P. Martelletti, Italy

Jiri Masopust, Czech Republic

Michele Matarazzo, Canada

Sanjay J. Mathew, USA

Swantje Matthies, Germany

Paula L. McClean, UK

Patrick D. McGorry, Australia

Miguel Medina, Spain

Diogo Mendes, Portugal

Sebastiano Mercadante, Italy

Axel Methner, Germany

Antonio Mirijello, Spain

Wayne Miles, New Zealand

Ron Milo, Israel

Michael Milone, USA

Dimos Mitsikostas, Greece

Marcello Moccia, Italy

Kevin Moore, UK

Paula I. Moreira, Portugal

Vera A. Morgan, Australia

Janne Kaergaard Mortensen, Denmark

Marco Mula, UK

James W. Murrough, USA

Karl Otto Nakken, Norway

Lina Nashef, UK

Antje Neubert, Germany

Sarah Nevitt, UK

John W. Newcomer, USA

Katarzyna Nowomiejska, Poland

David J. Nutt, UK

Brian O’Donoghue, Australia

Julee Oei, Australia

Fabienne Ory-Magne, France

Francesco Orzi, Italy

Christian Aavang Ovesen, Denmark

Philip N. Patsalos, UK

Jennifer Payne, USA

Christopher A. Pennell, USA

Santiago Perez-Lloret, Argentina

Carlo Piccinni, Italy

Barbara Picconi, Italy

Gisèle Pickering, France

Fredrik Piehl, Sweden

Steven T. Pittenger, USA

Prudence Plummer, USA

Stefano Porcelli, Italy

Alison S. Poulton, Australia

Eric Prommer, USA

Caroline Rae, Australia

Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, Spain

Tomi Rantamaki, Finland

Stephanie Collins Reed, USA

Gary M. Reisfield, USA

Daphne Robakis, USA

Jennifer Robblee, USA

Michele Romoli, Italy

Raymond Lotilla Rosales, Philippines

Anna Rosati, Italy

Elisabeth Ruppert, France

Teijo I. Saari, Finland

Debra Lynn Safer, USA

Shiv Saidha, USA

Cristina Sampaio, Portugal

Ivan Sanchez Fernandez, USA

Ley Sander, UK

Giorgio Sandrini, Italy

Sudhir Chandra Sarangi, India

Magdalena Sastre, UK

Eva Schaeffer, Germany

Fabrizio Schifano, UK

Eva K. Schildmann, Germany

Robert Sergott, USA

Rohit Shankar, UK

Vibhash D. Sharma, USA

Brian J. Sherman, USA

Michael Silber, USA

Dan Siskind, Australia

Maria Pia Sormani, Italy

Elias S. Sotirchos, USA

J. David Spence, Canada

Barbara St. Marie, USA

Linda J. Stephen, UK

Camilla Stephens, Spain

Stephanie Stiel, Germany

Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Denmark

Adam Strzelczyk, Germany

Brendon Stubbs, UK

Raoul Sutter, Switzerland

Jerry P. Szaflarski, USA

Hiroyoshi Takeuchi, Canada

Chee Seng Tan, Singapore

Claudia Tarli, Italy

Jan Thoene, Germany

Marie Tournier, France

Anthony Traboulsee, Canada

Helen Tremlett, Canada

Jose M. Trigo, Canada

Lynn Marie Trotti, USA

Eva M. Tsapakis, Greece

Wilma D. J. van de Berg, the Netherlands

Selene Veerman, the Netherlands

Valentine Vengeliene, Germany

Annemiek Vermeeren, the Netherlands

Angela Vidal-Jordana, Spain

Pablo Villoslada, Spain

Cosmin Sebastian Voican, France

Martin Sebastian Weber, Germany

Yu-Jung (Jenny) Wei, USA

Michalina Wezyk, Poland

Mollie Wood, Norway

George E. Woody, USA

Chi-Shin Wu, Taiwan

Joel L. Young, USA

Gaetano Zaccara, Italy

Edward Zamrini, USA

Johan Zelano, Sweden

In addition, we would like to thank the members of the journal’s Honorary Editorial Board, who have acted as peer reviewers and authors, and have provided guidance on journal content, policy and processes:

D.S. Baldwin, University of Southampton, Southampton, England

R.L. Barkin, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA

T.R.E. Barnes, Imperial College London, London, England

M. Bialer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

J. Biller, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA

H. Brodaty, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia

M.J. Brodie, West Glasgow Ambulatory Care Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland

M.J. Carpenter, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

M.C. Chamberlain, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

D.R. Coghill, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

S. Cortese, University of Southampton, Southampton, England

M.J. Eadie, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

M.R. Farlow, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

G.A. Fava, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

S.H. Fox, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

G.T. Grossberg, St Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

C. Guilleminault, Stanford Health Services, Stanford, CA, USA

D. Gurwitz, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

M. Hahn, Vitos Klinik, Eltville, Germany

G. Hajak, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

H-P. Hartung, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany

M.W. Jann, University of North Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA

D. Kemp, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

S.G. Kornstein, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

P. Kwan, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia

R.W. Lam, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

L. Leggio, NIAAA and NIDA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

B.E. Leonard, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

P. Mitchell, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia

J.H. Newcorn, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

E. Perucca, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

R.M. Post, George Washington University, Washington DC and Bipolar Collaborative Network, Washington DC, USA

A.M. Rapoport, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

O. Rascol, University Hospital, Toulouse, France

D.A. Revicki, Evidera, Bethesda, MD, USA

K.L. Roos, Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, USA

J.F. Rosenbaum, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

M.V. Rudorfer, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

S.C. Schachter, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

S.A. Schug, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia

S.D. Silberstein, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

D. Taylor, Maudsley Hospital, London, England

C. Trenkwalder, Paracelsus-Elena Hospital, Kassel, Germany

E. Trinka, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

B. Vitiello, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

B. Weinstock-Guttman, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

J.W. Winkelman, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

J. Zajecka, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.

We do hope that you have found the articles published throughout the year in CNS Drugs to be interesting and informative. The editorial schedule for 2019 is well under way, and we are looking forward to bringing you many high-quality and authoritative articles over the coming year.


With best wishes,


Kate Palmer and Sue Pochon

Co-Editors, CNS Drugs