Dear Reader,

As we publish the final issue of CNS Drugs for 2022, I wish to reflect on this year’s achievements and thank all those who have contributed their valuable time and effort to ensure the quality of the content published in the journal.

The Section Editors and I would like to begin by thanking the authors who have contributed articles to CNS Drugs over the course of 2022, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to present a number of challenges. The skill and dedication of these experts is critical to the continued success of the journal.

The high quality of content published in CNS Drugs has been reflected in the most recent Impact Factor of 6.497 and CiteScore of 9.8. The Impact Factor places the journal in the top quartile of the Clinical Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pharmacology and Pharmacy categories.

Through the efforts of our authors and reviewers, we also continue to see great gains in article usage. The most popular 2022 articles to date, in terms of downloads from SpringerLink, are:

Social media sharing and other online mentions of information are additional metrics with which to measure the reach of articles. This year the following articles published in CNS Drugs in the past 12 months have scored well on the Altmetric system:

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 therefore like to thank the following individuals who acted as reviewers for CNS Drugs in the last 12 months:

Hesham Abboud, USA

Yolanda Aladro, Spain

Georgina Arrambide, Spain

György Bagdy, Hungary

Mohammad Bagherniya, Islamic Republic of Iran

Lucie Barateau, France

Melissa L. Barker-Haliski, USA

Alasdair M. Barr, Canada

Francesco Bartoli, Italy

David Benavides, USA

Antonio Bertolotto, Italy

Frank M.C. Besag, UK

Christian G. Bien, Germany

Arjan Blokland, The Netherlands

Richard K. Bogan, USA

Rupam Borgohain, India

Gauruv Bose, Canada

Nicholas A. Buckley, Australia

Lucia Caffino, Italy

Eleni Caratzas, USA

Daniel C. Castro, USA

Omar Cauli, Spain

Zheng Chang, Sweden

Jeremy Chataway, UK

Sofiène Chenini, France

Ann C. Childress, USA

Catherine Chiron, France

Luke Clark, Canada

James C. Cloyd, USA

Romain Colle, France

Rob Collin, The Netherlands

Nicolas Collongues, France

Giorgio Costagliola, Italy

Sara Costi, USA

Patricia K. Coyle, USA

Emanuele D'amico, Italy

Basil T. Darras, USA

John M. Davis, USA

Mellar Davis, USA

Floriana De Angelis, UK

Giuseppe Di Giovanni, Malta

Alessandro Dinoto, Italy

Atbin Djamshidian, Austria

Jolanta Dorszewska, Poland

Nicky Dunn, Sweden

Helio Elkis, Brazil

Joshua Eloge, USA

Stefan T. Engelter, Switzerland

Michael Ewers, Germany

Justin Faden, USA

Paul Farquhar-Smith, UK

Graziella Filippini, Italy

Josef Finsterer, Brazil

Daniel Foster, USA

Frederick G. Freitag, USA

Joseph H. Friedman, USA

Rolf Fronczek, The Netherlands

Richard E. Frye, USA

Laura Fusar-Poli, Italy

Antonio Garcia-Merino, Spain

Chiara Gastaldon, Italy

Karen A. Gelmon, Canada

Leonid Gibiansky, USA

Riccardo Giossi, Italy

Susan Goelz, USA

Donald C. Goff, USA

Grace Gombolay, USA

Felipe V. Gomes, Brazil

Roser Granero, Spain

James W. Grau, USA

Kevin M. Gray, USA

David J. Greenblatt, USA

Stephen Grill, USA

Koen Grootens, The Netherlands

Pooja Gupta, India

Hatice Guttman, Spain

Mario Habek, Croatia

Mark B. Hamner, USA

Alkomiet Hasan, Germany

Kenji Hashimoto, Japan

Anna Heidbreder, Austria

Daniel F. Hermens, Australia

Madeleine Hinwood, Australia

Man Ho, Viet Nam

Reinhardt Hohlfeld, Germany

Makoto Honda, Japan

Jane L. Hutton, UK

Harald Ihmsen, Germany

Peter Illes, Germany

Michael W. Jann, USA

Maria Jędrzejowska, Poland

Katarzyna Jerzak, Canada

Mats Johnson, Sweden

Wolfgang H. Jost, Germany

Ulf Kallweit, Germany

Richard S. Keefe, USA

Costas Kiparissides, Greece

Markus Kipp, Germany

Janbernd Kirschner, Germany

Kelly G. Knupp, USA

Ole Kohler-Forsberg, Denmark

Bhanu Kolla, USA

Mark V. Koning, The Netherlands

Priya Kumthekar, USA

Anne-Marie Landtblom, Sweden

Soon-Tae Lee, Republic of Korea

Yan Li, USA

Shen-Yang Lim, Malaysia

Peter E. Lonergan, Ireland

Erin E. Longbrake, USA

Paolo Martelletti, Italy

Paulo Mattos, Brazil

Geert Mayer, Germany

Michael J. McCarthy, USA

Marisa McGinley, USA

Roger S. McIntyre, Canada

Andreas Meiser, Germany

Massimiliano Mirabella, Italy

Tatsuro Misu, Japan

Patricio Molero, Spain

Craig Moore, Canada

Yasuhiro Morimoto, Japan

Anne M. Morse, USA

Heather J. Mortiboys, UK

Charbel E-H. Moussa, USA

Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, New Zealand

Kjell-Morten Myhr, Norway

Ahmed Nadeem, Saudi Arabia

Michael R. Nadorff, USA

Jadwiga Najib, USA

David N. Neubauer, USA

Fabricio Ferreira de Oliveira, Brazil

Giovanni Ostuzzi, Italy

Lucas H. Overeem, Germany

Paolo Palmisciano, USA

Sagun Parakh, Australia

Daniele Pastori, Italy

Friedemann Paul, Germany

Michael Paulzen, Germany

Santiago Perez-Lloret, Argentina

Jamir Pitton Rissardo, Brazil

Werner Poewe, Austria

Emilio Portaccio, Italy

Wei Qiu, China

Susana Quijano-Roy, France

Emanuel Raschi, Italy

John Read, UK

Gary Remington, Canada

Uwe Reuter, Germany

Johan Reutfors, Sweden

Paul Rolan, Australia

Simona Rolla, Italy

Benjamin Rolland, France

Francisco Romo-Nava, USA

Stephan Rüegg, Switzerland

Henricus Ruhe, The Netherlands

Gabriele Sachs, Austria

Hiroyuki Sakata, Japan

Cristina Sampaio, Portugal

Ley Sander, UK

Joan Santamaria, Spain

Jerome Sarris, Australia

Sebastiaan Sassen, The Netherlands

Takehito Sato, Japan

An-Sofie Schoonjans, Belgium

Rudy Schreiber, The Netherlands

Mieke H.J. Schulte, The Netherlands

Peter F.J. Schulte, The Netherlands

Mehmet Güney Şenol, Turkey

Ancor Serrano Afonso, Spain

Raghuraman M. Sethuraman, India

Rahul Shukla, India

Alessio Signori, Italy

Balwinder Singh, USA

Dan Siskind, Australia

J. Robert Sneyd, UK

Karin Söderberg-Löfdal, Sweden

Anand Srinivasan, India

Joseph F. Standing, UK

Richard R. Stark, Australia

Mark A. Stein, USA

Thomas P. Stern, USA

Pasquale Striano, Italy

Cliff H. Summers, USA

Raoul Sutter, Switzerland

Takefumi Suzuki, Japan

Enzo Tagliazucchi, Argentina

Hiroyoshi Takeuchi, Japan

Emma Tallantyre, UK

Xiangdong Tang, China

Aina Teniente Serra, Spain

David Ternant, France

Morgane Thomsen, Denmark

Eduardo Fidel Tizzano, Spain

Lawrence Toll, USA

Duong Tran, Australia

Louis-Eric Trudeau, Canada

Marit Tveito, Norway

Alp Ucok, Turkey

Emily Uebbing, USA

Nicole Van Bergen, Australia

Judy Van de Water, USA

Arnold van der Lee, The Netherlands

Nathalie van der Velde, The Netherlands

Ruben van Eijk, The Netherlands

Vincent van Pesch, Belgium

Jan Versijpt, Belgium

Michail Vikelis, Greece

Antonio Vita, Italy

Viktor von Wyl, Switzerland

Howard Weiner, USA

Gail Winger, USA

Elaine C. Wirrell, USA

David C. Yeomans, USA

V. Wee Yong, Canada

Gaetano Zaccara, Italy

Atefeh Zandifar, Islamic Republic of Iran

Ifrah Zawar, USA

Nicole Ziliotto, Italy

We gratefully acknowledge all of 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:

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

Robert L. Barkin, North Shore University Health System and Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA

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

Michael Berk, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

Meir Bialer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

José Biller, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA

Francesco Brigo, Hospital of Merano (SABES-ASDAA), Merano, Italy

Henry Brodaty, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia

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

Matthew Carpenter, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

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

David R. Coghill, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, and University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Samuele Cortese, University of Southampton, Southampton, England

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

Susanna Every-Palmer, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

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

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

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

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

David Gurwitz, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Martina Hahn, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Göran Hajak, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Hans-Peter Hartung, Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany

Tomas Kalincik, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Joshua T. Kantrowitz, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

David Kemp, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

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

Patrick Kwan, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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

Simona Lattanzi, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy

Lorenzo Leggio, NIAAA and NIDA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

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

Philip Mitchell, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia

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

Emilio Perucca, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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

Alison Poulton, University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia

Samir K. Praharaj, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Alan M. Rapoport, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Olivier Rascol, University Hospital, Toulouse, France

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

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

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

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

Soraya Seedat, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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

Per S. Sørensen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Maria Pia Sormani, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

David Taylor, Maudsley Hospital, London, England

Claudia Trenkwalder, Paracelsus-Elena Hospital, Kassel, Germany

Eugen Trinka, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Benedetto Vitiello, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

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

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

Ian C.K. Wong, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

John Zajecka, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the founding Editor of the journal, Katharine Palmer, for all of her many and varied contributions to the success of CNS Drugs. It’s through Kate’s dedication, attention to detail, knowledge and persistence that the journal has flourished and we wish her all the very best for her new role this year.

I hope that you have found the articles published throughout 2022 to be both interesting and informative. The editors have appreciated the high quality of content contributed to the journal and we look forward to keeping you up to date with topical issues in the drug treatment of neurologic and psychiatric disorders in 2023.

With best wishes from the Editor of CNS Drugs.

Sue Pochon