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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:
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The Potential of N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
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A Practical Guide to the Treatment of Dravet Syndrome with Anti-Seizure Medication
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Cannabis-Based Medicines and Medical Cannabis for Chronic Neuropathic Pain
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Molecular Mechanisms of Psilocybin and Implications for the Treatment of Depression
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Multiple Sclerosis in Children: Differential Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Disease-Modifying Treatment
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Potential Role of Curcumin for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
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Post-COVID-19 Depressive Symptoms: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacological Treatment
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
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Acknowledgement to Referees. CNS Drugs 36, 1243–1247 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40263-022-00972-8
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