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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
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Acknowledgement to Referees. CNS Drugs 32, 1079–1083 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40263-018-0592-7
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