
Editor-in-Chief:
Vincenzo Di Marzo
Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare (I.C.B.)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.)
Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078, Pozzuoli
Napoli
Italy
Associate Editors:
Craig S. Atwood
School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Madison
USA
Katrin Beyer
Department of Pathology
University Hospital Germans Trias
Barcelona
Spain
Regional Editors:
Joaquin Jordan
Dpto. Ciencias Médicas School of Medicine
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Albacete
Spain
Vittorio Gentile
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Second University of Naples
Naples
Italy
Miguel Medina
Noscira S.A.
Madrid
Spain
Sergi Ferré
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institutes of Health
Baltimore, MD
USA
Editorial Advisory Board:
A. Adell (Instituto de Investigaciones
Biomedicas de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
J.A.G. Agúndez (Univ. of Extremadura,
Badajoz, Spain)
N. Ait-Aissa (Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Paris,
France)
J. Alberch (Univ. of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
P. Alewood (Univ. of Queesland, Brisbane,
Australia)
L.F. Alguacil (Univ. of San Pablo CEU, Madrid,
Spain)
D.L. Alkon (Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosci. Inst.,
Rockville, MD, USA)
S. Ananthan (Southern Research Institute,
Birmingham, AL, USA)
A. Andjelkovic-Zochowska (Univ. of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
K. Aubrey (CNRS, Paris, France)
J. Avila (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid,
Madrid, Spain)
S. Bachurin (Institute of Physiologically
Active Compounds, Moscow, Russia)
W. Balduini (Universita di Urbino, Chiara,
Italy)
D.C. Baumgart (Humboldt-University of Berlin,
Berlin, Germany)
N.G. Bazan (LSU Neuroscience Center of Excellence,
New Orleans, LA, USA)
G. Benitez-King (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria,
Mexico)
I. Berdicevsky (Technion - Israel Institute
of Techno, Haifa, Israel)
S. Bhattacharyya (Inst.of Psychiatry, London,
UK)
G. Binetti (Memory Clinic, Neuro. Bio. Gen.
Lab., Brescia, Italy)
J. Bogousslavsky (Univ. Dept. of Neurology,
CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland)
G. Bonfiglio (Clinical and Functional Research
Laboratory, Catania, Italy)
L. Brand (North West University, Potchefstroom,
South Africa)
M.A. Brimble (University of Auckland, Auckland,
New Zealand)
C.B. Brink (North West University, Potchefstroom,
South Africa)
P. Buckley (Medical College of Georgia, Augusta,
Georgia, GA, USA)
S.J. Busch (Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals,
Bridgewater, NJ, USA)
R. Cacabelos (Camilo Jose Cela University,
Madrid, Spain)
B. Cacciari (Università di Ferrara,
Ferrara, Italy)
M. Castanho (University of Lisbon, Lisbon,
Portugal)
A. Contestabile (University of Bologna, Bolonga,
Italy)
S. Chaki (Medicinal Research Laboratories,Taisho
Pharmaceuticals, Saitama, Japan)
M. Chorev (Harvard Medical School, Cambridge,
MA, USA)
J.R. Connor (Penn State College of Medicine,
Hershey, PA, USA)
A.C. Cuello (McGill University, Quebec, Canada)
J.L. Cummings (David Geffen Sch. of Med.
at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
M. Curras-Collazo (Univ. of California, Riverside,
CA, USA)
P. Donnelly (University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Australia)
V.G. Duschak (Instituto Nacional de Parasitología,
Buenos Aires, Argentina)
S.I. Dworkin (University of North Carolina
Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA)
G. Egea (Univ. of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
R. Faghih (Abbott Laboratories, Houston,
TX, USA)
M. Faria (Instituto Butantan Av Vital, Sao
Paulo, Brazil)
H. Fillit (Institute for Study of Aging,
New York, NY, USA)
G. Foster (University of Wales, Wales, UK)
P. Franchetti (University of Camerino, Camerino,
Italy)
P. Francotte (Universite de Liege, Liege,
Belgium)
J. Friedman (D-Pharm Ltd., Rehovot, Israel)
V. Frisardi (Univ. of Bari, Bari, Italy )
A. Galal (Univ. of Mississippi, Mississippi,
MS, USA)
S.E. Gandy (Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, PA, USA)
A.G. Garcia (UAM, Madrid, Spain)
M. Glatzel (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf,
Hamburg, Germany)
R.A. Glennon (Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, VA, USA)
A.V. Glushakov (University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL , USA)
B. Gold (Oregon Health & Science University,
Oregon, OR, USA)
C.-X. Gong (Laboratory of Brain Metabolism,
New York, NY, USA)
I. Gozes (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv,
Israel)
N.H. Greig (Drug Design & Develop. Sec.,
NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA)
B. Grimpe (University of Miami, Miami, FL,
USA)
J. Guan (University of Auckland, Auckland,
New Zealand)
A. Guiotto (CNR, Naples, Italy)
H.-J. Ha (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies,
Yongin, Kyunggi-Do, Korea)
J.J. Hagan (GlaxoSmithkline Plc, Essex, UK)
J.C.G. Halford (University of Liverpool,
Liverpool, UK)
A.J. Hannan (University of Melbourne, VIC,
Australia)
J.A. Harrold (University of Liverpool, Liverpool,
UK)
B.H. Harvey (North West University, Potchefstroom,
South Africa)
K. Hashimoto (Chiba University Graduate School
of Medicine, Chiba, Japan)
C. Heidbreder (GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceut.,
Verona, Italy)
C. Henchcliffe (Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY,
USA)
G. Henriksen (Technische Universität
München,München, Germany)
L. Hertz (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Canada)
F. Holsboer (Max Planck Institute Psychiatry,
Munich, Germany)
S. Hood (University of Western Australia,
Perth, Australia)
P. Houghton (King's College London, London,
UK)
P. Huertas (Amicus Therapeutics Inc., Cranbury,
NJ, USA)
N.C. Inestrosa (Catholic University of Chile,
Santiago, Chile)
E. Jacotot (THERAPTOSIS, Biocitech Technology
Park, Cedex, France)
D. Janigro (Cleveland Clinic Lerner Coll.
of Med., Cleveland, OH, USA)
E. Jirillo (University of Bari, Bari, Italy)
A. Jones (Guy's/St. Thomas' Hosp. NHS Trust,
London, UK)
J.R. Kanwar (Deakin University, Victoria,
Australia)
M. Kassiou (University of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia)
G. Katsuura (Shionogi & Co. Ltd., Osaka,
Japan)
V. Kecskemeti (Semmelweis University, Budapest,
Hungary)
A. Kenna (Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA)
S. Khanna (Psychiatric Clinic, New Delhi,
India)
T. Kikuchi (Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.,Tokushima,
Japan)
E. Klann (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,
TX , USA)
K. Konno (Butantan Institute, Sao Paulo,
Brazil)
G.J. Kotwal (University of Cape Town, Cape
Town, South Africa)
J. Lange (Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Weesp,
The Netherlands)
L. Lecanu (Georgetown University, Washington
DC, USA)
F. Lesage (Université de Nice Sophia
Antipolis, Paris , France)
J. Leszek (Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland)
W. Lim (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak,Sarawak,Malaysia)
T. Lundstedt (Uppsala University, Uppsala,
Sweden)
A. Machado (Universidad de Sevilla, Seville,
Spain)
K. Maiese (Wayne State University, School
of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA)
K.G. Manton (Ctr. for Demographic Studies
Duke Univ., North Carolina, NC, USA)
N. Marchi (Case Western Reserve University, Euclid Ave, OH, USA)
J.L. Marco-Contelles (Instituto de Quimica
Organica General, Madrid, Spain)
P. Martelletti (Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome,
Italy)
P.M. Martin (University of Virginia Hlth.
Sys.,Charlottesville, VA , USA)
A. Martinez (Instituto de Quimica Medica-CSIC,
Madrid, Spain)
A. Martocchia (S. Andrea Hospital, Rome,
Italy)
A.E. Martynyuk (University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL, USA)
Y. Masuda (Tashirodai Hospital, Yamaguchi,
Japan)
H. Mattes (Novartis Inst. Biomed. Res., Basel,
Switzerland)
K.I. Maynard (Sanofi-Aventis, New Jersey,
NJ, USA)
M. McKenna (University of Maryland School
of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA)
R.M. Melotti (University of Bologna, Bologna,
Italy)
A. Messeguer (IIQAB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
J.S. Meyer (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,
Texas, TX, USA)
D. Mitsikostas (Athens Naval Hospital, Athens,
Greece)
H. Mochizuki (Department of Neurlogy, Tokyo,
Japan)
S. De La Monte (Rhode Island Hosp. &
Brown Med. Sch., Rhode Island , RI, USA)
J. Nagy (Gedeon Richter Ltd., Budapest, Hungary)
N.-H. Nam (Hanoi University of Pharmacy,
Hanoi, Vietnam)
V. Neugebauer (University of Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston, TX, USA)
J. Nilsen (University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA, USA)
L. Ning (Sichuan University, Chengdu, China)
F. Nyberg (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
M.J. O'Neill (Elli Lilly & Co. Ltd.,
Surrey, UK)
B. Onteniente (Universite Paris-Val-de-Marne,
Paris, France)
D.W. Oliver (University of Reading, Reading,
UK)
M. Pallas (Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain)
K. Parang (University of Rhode Island, Kingston,
RI, USA)
G.M. Pastores (New York University School
of Medicine, New York, NY, USA)
L. Peng (China Med. Univ., Shenyang, China)
M.L. Penichet (University of California,
Los Angeles, CA, USA)
G. Perry (Univ. of Texas, San Antonia, TX,
USA)
B. Platt (University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill,
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
R. Porter (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel,
Switzerland)
H. Potschka (Univ. of Vet. Med. Hannover,
Hannover, Germany)
T. Prisinzano (University of Iowa, Iowa,
IA, USA)
R.R. Puertas (University of Pa’s Vasco,
Vizcaya, Spain)
A.I. Qureshi (Univ.Med.& Dentistry of
New Jersey, New Jersey, NJ, USA)
K.S.J. Rao (Central Food Technological Research
Institute, Mysore, India)
M.P. Rathbone (McMaster University Health
Sciences Centre, ON, Canada)
R. Reinscheid (University of California,
Irvine, CA ,USA)
A.B. Reitz (Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical,
Spring House, PA, USA)
P. Rameshwar (Department of Medicine-Hematology,
Newark, NJ, USA)
L. Roberts (Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney,
Australia)
G.C. Roman (Univ. of Texas Health Sci. Ctr.,
San Antonio, TX, USA)
Michael A. Rogawski (University of California, Sacramento, California USA)
I. Rubinstein (University of Illinois at
Chicago, Illinois, IL, USA)
K.H. Ruan (Univ. of Texas-Houston Health
Sci. Center, Houston, TX, USA)
B. Safieh-Garabedian (American University
of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon)
G. Sanacora (Yale University School of Medicine,
Connecticut, CT, USA)
H.B. Schiöth (Uppsala University, Uppsala,
Sweden)
S. Schmid (Univ. of Western Ontario, Ontario,
Canada)
J.S. Schneider (Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, PA, USA)
A. Serretti (Univ. Vita-Salute,
Sch. of Med., Milan, Italy)
E. Sher (Eli Lilly, Surrey, UK)
S. Shimohama (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
Y. Shirayama (Chiba Univ. Graduate Sch. Med.,
Chiba, Japan)
Y. Shoenfeld (Tel-Aviv Univ., Tel-Aviv, Israel)
M. Simonato (University of Ferrara, Ferrara,
Italy)
R. Sindelar (The Univ. of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada)
D.H. Small (Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia)
M.A. Smith (Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio, OH, USA)
K.F.A. Soliman (Florida A&M University,
Tallahassee, FL, USA)
B. Solomon (Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv,
Israel)
A. Sommer (Univ. of Ulm, Ulm, Germany)
G. Spadoni (University of Urbino, Urbino,
Italy)
G. Spalluto (Università di Trieste,
Triesta, Italy)
R. Squitti (AFaR, Fatebenefratelli Hospital,
Rome, Italy)
H. Stark (Institut fuer Pharmazeutische Chemie, Frankfurt,
Germany)
D.J. Stein (University of Stellenbosch, Cape
Town, South Africa)
M.-K. Sun (Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosci.
Inst., Rockville, MD, USA)
J.Y. Sze (University of California, Irvine,
CA, USA)
E. Takahashi (RIKEN, Brain Science Institute,
Wako, Japan)
D.-X. Tan (University of Texas, San Antonio,
TX, USA)
R.E. Tanzi (Harvard Medical School, Charlestown,
MA, USA)
I. Tarnawa (Gedeon Richter Ltd., Budapest,
Hungary)
A.M. Tata (Univ. of Rome, Roma, Italy)
M. Tricklebank (Lilly Research Centre, Surrey,
UK)
H. Ulrich (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao
Paulo, Brazil)
J. Venugopal (Novartis Research Foundation,
Basel, Switzerland)
A.N. Vgontzas (Penn State College of Med.,
Hershey PA , USA)
E. Vieta (University of Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain)
B. Vincent (Institut. Pharmacol. Molec. Cellulaire,
CNRS, Valbonne, France)
D. Vohora (Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India)
R. Volpini (Università di Camerino,
Camerino, Italy)
M.W. Walter (Eli Lilly and Company Ltd.,
Surrey, UK)
T. Wang (The Univ. of Manchester, Manchester,
UK)
J.W.F. Wasley (Simpharma LLC, Guilford, CT,
USA)
G. Wegener (Univ. of Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark)
D.R. Wesson (CNS Medications Development,
Oakland, California, USA)
A. West (University of Tasmania, Hobart,
Australia)
A.R. White (The University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia)
G.L. Willis (The Bronowski Inst. of Behav.
Neurosci., Victoria, Australia)
J.Z. Wu (Valeant Pharmaceuticals International,
California, CA, USA)
J.K. Yao (VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
P. Yogeeswari (Biral Inst.Technology &
Science, Rajasthan, India)
M.B.H. Youdim (Technion-Fac. of Med., Haifa,
Israel)
F.C. Zhou (Indiana University School of Medicine,
Indianapolis, IA, USA)
A. Zine (Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier,
France)
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