Dear colleagues,

This issue of Acta Neurologica Belgica is the first one published with our new publisher Springer. It is thus at the realm of a new era for our journal which we hope to be successful both for the quality of content and logistics. Those of you who have submitted or reviewed a manuscript recently have noticed already the major improvements in user-friendliness, efficiency and handling time thanks to the Editorial Manager web-based submission system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/aneb) and the Springer editorial managing team. Those of you who had recently a manuscript accepted for publication in the ANB must have been delighted to find their article published online within a couple of weeks. This reduces considerably the delay for publication, as the articles online are fully citable by their DOI (digital object identifier) and the official publication date is the online publication date.

You must be aware that articles published in the ANB are accessible for free on the Springer website (http://www.springer.com/13760) for members of the Belgian Neurological Society. For this access, you have to use your login and password provided by the Belgian Neurological Society. If you do not have your access codes, please contact the BNS secretary Mrs. A Groven (anniegroven@gmail.com). In order to be always up-to-date regarding ANB, I would advise you to subscribe the Table of Content alert. You only need to insert your e-mail address in the dedicated space on the right of the product page of ANB at http://www.springer.com/13760.

Since we are with Springer the number and quality of submissions have already increased which in turn increases the workload of the editor and co-editors. I have therefore solicited several colleagues with an expertise in specific neurological disorders to join the editorial staff. I’m happy and grateful to inform you that from ANB 2012, Vol. 112, No. 2 on, Veerle De Herdt from the Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, University of Ghent, Vincent Thijs from the Department of Neurology, Stroke Unit, University of Leuven and Jan Versijpt from the Department of Neurology, VUB Brussels have accepted to become co-editors. At the same time, An Jansen, who has served as co-editor for several years, has become overloaded with work and requested a brake from her co-editorship. I would like to sincerely thank her for the tremendous job she did over the years despite her many other duties. It was a real pleasure to work with you, An, and you may notice that we need three people to replace you!

I wish you a pleasant and informative reading of this issue and thank you for your continuing support.

Jean Schoenen

Editor-in-Chief