Brain Imaging and Behavior, launched in 2007, has completed three volumes and the present issue represents the beginning of our fourth volume. I am delighted to report that Brain Imaging and Behavior (BIB) has been accepted for inclusion in PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s database of Medline and Pre-Medline articles. In addition, we were recently informed by Thomson Reuters that starting retrospectively with 1:1, Brain Imaging and Behavior has been selected for indexing and abstraction in Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), Current Contents/Physical Chemical and Earth Sciences, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, and the Neuroscience Citation Index. These are in addition to the citation databases already indexing Brain Imaging and Behavior. In the next year we will begin to see determination of an Impact Factor, which given the quality and timeliness of the recent and pending articles, is certain to grow in the coming years.

At this time, it is highly appropriate to thank Professors Erin Bigler and Martha Shenton who have served as Associate Editors and trusted sources of advice since the early preparation phase of the journal. Heather Pixley, Editorial Assistant, has been highly effective in keeping manuscripts flowing through the review process and with technical assistance to authors of accepted papers. Janice Stern, Senior Editor, Health and Behavior, Springer, has been very supportive of Brain Imaging and Behavior since its inception. Janice has done a great job of advocating for and promoting the journal. In addition, the production group at Springer has also been remarkably quick at getting proofs to authors and papers published online.

Brain Imaging and Behavior has benefited from an exceptionally strong Editorial Board composed of distinguished scientists from a range of neuroscience and imaging specialties, who despite their other extensive commitments did not decline when asked to help initiate a new journal. We also are grateful to the authors who despite the newness of the journal submitted some of their best research to BIB. In addition to the authors, the quality of the initial volumes is also due to the expert reviewers, listed below, who provided rigorous critiques coupled with supportive advice for authors leading to clear presentation and balanced interpretation of emergent findings. Over 270 referees helped to enhance the scientific quality of the issues to date.

This has been an extraordinary time for multidisciplinary research exploiting the scientific potential of advanced brain imaging and related methods. Articles in the initial volumes have addressed numerous clinical conditions including Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, traumatic brain injury, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism and other addictions, stress and HIV among other disorders. Imaging studies have encompassed all age ranges from children and adolescents to the young, middle age and older adult populations. In some cases developmental factors and aging processes were the research focus. Where some research reported on neural processes underlying normal cognition, other work has addressed the substrates of cognitive abnormalities. Domain areas have included memory, visual perception, language, judgment and motor function. Other studies have examined topics as diverse as aggression and violent video games, musical processing and eyewitness decision-making. Although most papers to date have focused on human participants, several reports involve translational studies of rodents and canines. The neuroimaging methods used to investigate scientific questions posed by authors also have represented a broad array of techniques including structural, functional, diffusion, perfusion and spectroscopic MRI, metabolic and targeted tracer PET and SPECT, ERPs and MEG. Brain connectivity has become an increasingly prominent topic with several reports addressing structural connectivity using DTI and functional connectivity using fMRI methods. Several articles examined resting state connectivity and the default mode network that is typically active during resting conditions relative to goal directed mental activity.

An important emergent direction is indicated by the increasing number of studies using fMRI and other imaging methods as a biomarker for assessing therapeutic response to pharmacological, surgical or behavioral interventions. As we move into the era of personalized therapeutics, imaging biomarkers can be expected to show increased application including image-guided treatment strategies. Another set of papers described novel algorithms and analytic strategies including automated morphometric analysis and validation studies. Looking ahead, an increasingly important topic is likely to be imaging genetics, which several recent reports addressed. To date, there has been one special issue, guest edited by Jack Van Horn and colleagues, that provided an update on the impressive developments in brain imaging research in the Pacific Rim countries.

Volume 4 will continue the tradition of diverse applications of leading edge brain imaging approaches to important subject populations and problems in neuroscience. Articles included in the first issue address a broad array of topics including the temporal dynamics of working memory recruitment, neuroimaging characteristics of critically ill patients in the ICU, the influence of age of onset of OCD on basal ganglia changes, the relationship between atrophy and perfusion in fronto-temporal dementia, sex differences in face processing, the relation between cognitive performance and DTI tractography in HIV-infected patients, activation during real compared to imagined sequential finger movements, manual versus automated hippocampal volumetric analysis in MCI and early AD, fronto-limbic interactions during overwhelmingly high working memory load, and finally disordered cortical functional connectivity during semantic processing in patients with schizophrenia or genetic risk for schizophrenia.

In summary, the first 3 years of Brain Imaging and Behavior has been a productive developmental period and we look forward to an exciting next phase as the Journal’s impact expands.

Andrew J. Saykin

Editor-in-Chief

Indianapolis

Referees Volumes 1–3 and 4(1)

Jeffry Alger

Mark Allen

Jorge Almeida

Eckart Altenmuller

Amit Anand

David Arciniegas

Konstantinos Arfanakis

Seiki Ayano

Carol Baird

Peter Bandettini

George Bartzokis

Leslie Baxter

James Becker

Michal Ben-Shachar

Jamshed Bhurucha

Erin Bigler

Robert Bilder

James Blair

Susan Bookheimer

Paolo Brambilla

Alfredo Brancucci

Stephan Brandt

Alan Breler

J.D. Bremner

Adam Brickman

Arthur Brody

Franklin Brown

Monte Buchsbaum

Brian Caffo

Victor Candia

Valerie Cardenas-Nicolson

Agnes Chan

Michael Chee

Joan Chiao

Peter Chiu

Christopher Christodoulou

Brett Clementz

Lisa Connor

Paul Connor

Roshan Cools

Denise Correa

Susan Courtney

C. Cullum

Paul Czoty

Alain Dagher

Terrance Darcey

Helen Dawes

Eco de Geus

Floris de Lange

Béatrice Desgranges

Mark D’Esposito

John Detre

Sol Diamond

Brad Dickerson

Marianne Dieterich

Blaine Ditto

Robert Dougherty

Jeng-Ren Duann

Julie Dumas

Timothy Durazzo

Ulrike Dydak

Mario Dzemidzic

Dawn Eagle

Gary Egan

Igor Elman

Christian Enzinger

Karla Evans

Lisa Eyler

Martin Farlow

Scott Faro

Michael Fearing

Evelina Fedorenko

Robert Ferguson

Hakan Fischer

Laura Flashman

James Ford

Judith Ford

Tatiana Foroud

Teresa Franklin

Scott Frey

Julius Fridriksson

Angela Friederici

Seth Friedman

Nicole Gage

William Gaillard

Shawn Gale

Matthew Garlinghouse

Alisa Gean

Yonas Geda

Guido Gerig

Gary Glover

Alexandra Golby

Meredith Golomb

Michael Greicius

Jeffrey Grethe

Georg Grön

John Gunstad

Ruben Gur

Andreana Haley

Todd Handy

Ryu Hashimoto

Uri Hasson

Marc Haut

Yong He

Dawson Hedges

Juergen Hennig

Frank Hillary

Yoshio Hirayasu

Dorothy Holinger

Ramona Hopkins

Matthew Hoptman

Andrew Horti

Kate Hoy

Colin Humphries

Judy Illes

James Jackson

William Jagust

Renaud Jardri

Terry Jernigan

Sterling Johnson

Derek Jones

Rex Jung

Andrew Kalnin

David Kareken

Klyoto Kasai

Jan Kassubek

Marc Kaufman

Shelli Kesler

Ron Killiany

Jieun Kim

Brock Kirwan

Stefan Kloppel

Harold Koenigsberg

Nancy Koven

Marek Kubicki

Jun Soo Kwon

Renee Lajiness-O’Neill

Todd Lencz

Catherine Leveroni

Meng Liang

Gregory Light

Donny Likosky

Kelvin Lim

Martin Lindquist

Xun Liu

Stuart MacDonald

Arthur Maerlender

Krisztina Malisza

George Mangun

William Marchand

Wayne Martin

Masaharu Maruishi

Daniel Mathalon

John Matochik

Thomas McAllister

Brenna McDonald

Vasilis Megalooikonomou

John Meyer

Michelle Mielke

Kristine Mosier

John Murray

Michael Nader

Sharon Naismith

David Nash

Paul Nestor

Paul Newhouse

Mary Newsome

Raymond Niaura

Sara Jo Nixon

Margaret Niznikiewicz

Eric Nofzinger

Laura Nummenmaa

Lars Nyberg

Brian O’Donnell

Robert Ogg

Takashi Ono

Marlene Oscar-Berman

Barton Palmer

Nadia Paré

Sohee Park

Robert Paul

Godfrey Pearlson

Michael Petrides

Nicole Petrovich

Stephan Posse

Bradley Postle

Andrea Protzner

Maurice Ptito

Ann Ragin

Stephen Rao

Susanne Reiterer

Grega Repovs

C. Harker Rhodes

Peter Robinson

Alard Roebroeck

Joshua Roffman

Serge Rombouts

Jed Rose

David Rosenberg

Robert Roth

Ronald Ruff

Bart Rypma

BettyJo Salmeron

David Salmon

Anca-Larisa Sandu

Roberto Sassi

Robert Savoy

Philip Schatz

Matthias Schlesewsky

Tilman Schulte

Martin Schulte-Rüther

Adam Schwartz

R. D. Seidler

Alessandro Serretti

Li Shen

Martha Shenton

Yong Shin

Steven Siegel

Lisa Silbert

Chantel Sloan

Iris Sommer

Kevin Spencer

Reisa Sperling

Roger Staff

Glenn Stebbins

Elliot Stein

Joel Steinberg

Andrew Stenger

Klass Enno Stephan

Kimberly Stigler

Philip Szeszko

Hidehiko Takahashi

Vanessa Taler

Li Hai Tan

Susan Tapert

David Tate

Christiane Thiel

Robert Thoma

Bruce Turetsky

And Turken

Jessica Turner

Shiro Usui

Vincent Van De Hen

Jack Van Horn

Guido van Wingen

Brent Vogt

Yang Wang

Julianna Ward

James Warwick

John West

Paul Whalen

Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

Thomas Whitford

Cynthia Wible

Christian Wienbruch

Elisabeth Wilde

Heather Wishart

Donald Wong

John Woodward

Karmen Yoder

Bryan Young

Deborah Yurgelun-Todd

Leonard Zaichkowsky

Robert Zatorre

Ying Zhu

Andrew Zimmerman