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European Journal of Neuroscience

Published on behalf of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

Edited by:
Jean-Marc Fritschy and Martin Sarter

EJN publishes original research articles and reviews in the broad fields of molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral, and cognitive neurosciences. EJN aims to advance our understanding of the nervous system in health and disease, thereby improving the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Papers should present novel results that can be of interest to a broad spectrum of neuroscientists. Papers dealing with specialized techniques or advances are welcome, but they must be written so that the important new observations or interpretations can be understood by neuroscientists in all branches of the subject. Publish your research in the journal to benefit from:

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TopNews and Announcements

FENS-EJN Award Winner for 2010 selected
EJN is pleased to announce this year's FENS-EJN Award winner. The 2010 FENS-EJN Award will be given to Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge). FENS and EJN would like to congratulate Mr. Wolfram Schultz for winning the 2010 FENS-EJN Award.

The Award will be presented at the FENS Forum in Amsterdam and Mr. Schulz will give a lecture there. This takes place on Wednesday July 7th 2010.

EJN Awards
EJN, in collaboration with FENS and Wiley-Blackwell, now offer three awards to help promote neuroscience research. Read more...

NIH-funded authors and EJN
From April 2008, the NIH is mandating grantees to deposit their peer-reviewed author manuscripts in PubMed Central, to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. The NIH mandate applies to all articles based on research that has been wholly or partially funded by the NIH and that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. In order to help authors comply with the NIH mandate, for papers accepted for publication in European Journal of Neuroscience after this date Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted manuscript (incorporating all amendments made during peer review, but prior to the publisher's copy-editing and typesetting) of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central at the point of acceptance by the journal. This version will then be made publicly available in PubMed Central 12 months after publication. Following the deposit Wiley-Blackwell authors will receive further communications from the NIH with respect to the submission. For further information, see here.

If authors wish to make their final published article openly accessible and without a 12 month embargo, they can choose to publish via the OnlineOpen service.

Wellcome and HHMI grantees can find out further information here.

Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium
The European Journal of Neuroscience has joined the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC) for a 1 year trial period starting January 2008. The Consortium is an alliance of neuroscience journals that have agreed to share manuscript reviews, at the author's request. Its goal is to speed and enhance thorough peer review by reducing the number of times that manuscripts are reviewed.

The growing pressure to send manuscripts to journals with the highest profile has increased the number of times that manuscripts are reviewed by different referees and has lengthened the time between the first submission of a manuscript and its eventual publication. Manuscripts submitted to a Consortium journal from January 2008 are eligible to have their reviews forwarded to another Consortium journal if they are not accepted for publication. By reducing or eliminating the need for new reviews at the second journal, this process has the potential to reduce workloads and speed the publication of new data.

A complete list of Consortium journals and details of the review-sharing process can be found at the Consortium's website, which is hosted by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility. Although the Consortium provides a valuable new opportunity, no one is required to take part. If authors do not wish to have their reviews forwarded, nothing will be exchanged between journals, and authors can submit their manuscript to another journal without its history being known, as is currently done. Similarly, if reviewers do not want their identity revealed to editors at a second journal, they have the option of remaining anonymous to external editors.

We hope that the option to share reviews between journals will reduce the burden on reviewers and bring new results to readers more quickly.

Jean-Marc Fritschy and Martin Sarter, Editors-in-Chief
European Journal of Neuroscience

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TopHighlights

All Featured Articles, Commentaries on Featured Articles, and Technical Spotlights are available free online.

Featured Articles and Commentaries from 2009 and 2010
Treating Parkinson's disease: preserve the spines! (Commentary on Soderstrom et al.)
Erwan Bezard
Impact of dendritic spine preservation in medium spiny neurons on dopamine graft efficacy and the expression of dyskinesias in parkinsonian rats
Katherine E. Soderstrom, Jennifer A. O'Malley, Nathan D. Levine, Caryl E. Sortwell, Timothy J. Collier, Kathy Steece-Collier
Spinal cannabinoids - a double-edged sword? (Commentary on Zhang et al.)
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Cannabinoid CB1 receptor facilitation of substance P release in the rat spinal cord, measured as neurokinin 1 receptor internalization
Guohua Zhang, Wenling Chen, Lijun Lao, Juan Carlos G. Marvizón
Aging and brain fitness (Commentary on Voelcker-Rehage et al.)
Kristin E. Flegal, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
Physical and motor fitness are both related to cognition in old age
Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Ben Godde, Ursula M. Staudinger
Gene dosage effects on hypothalamic visceromotor cell types (Commentary on Duplan et al.)
Paul Sawchenko
Impact of Sim1 gene dosage on the development of the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the hypothalamus
Sabine Michaëlle Duplan, Francine Boucher, Lubomir Alexandrov, Jacques L. Michaud
A collaboration conducive to conduction: matching axonal density to oligodendroglial number (Commentary on Kawai et al.)
Angela T. Hahn, Jonah R. Chan
Maintaince of the relative proportion of oligodendrocytes to axons even in the absence of BAX and BAK
Kumi Kawai, Takayuki Itoh, Aki Itoh, Makoto Horiuchi, Kouji Wakayama, Peter Bannerman, James Y. Garbern, David Pleasure, Tullia Lindsten
Regional specificity in dopamine signaling during reward-related learning (Commentary on Aragona et al.)
Stan B. Floresco
Regional specificity in the real-time development of phasic dopamine transmission patterns during acquisition of a cue-cocaine association in rats
Brandon J. Aragona, Jeremy J. Day, Mitchell F. Roitman, Nathan A. Cleaveland, R. Mark Wightman, Regina M. Carelli
Excitation by GABA in the SCN reaches its time and place (Commentary on Irwin & Allen)
Shlomo Wagner, Yosef Yarom
GABAergic signaling induces divergent neuronal Ca²⁺ responses in the suprachiasmatic nucleus network
Robert P. Irwin, Charles N. Allen
Dissociable functional roles of the human action-observation network (Commentary on E. S. Cross et al.)
James M. Kilner
Dissociable substrates for body motion and physical experience in the human action observation network
Emily S. Cross, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, David J. M. Kraemer, William M. Kelley, Scott T. Grafton

Technical Spotlights from 2009 and 2010
Accurate spike sorting for multi-unit recordings
Takashi Takekawa, Yoshikazu Isomura, Tomoki Fukai
Neural responses to uninterrupted natural speech can be extracted with precise temporal resolution
Edmund C. Lalor, John J. Foxe
Molecular neuroimaging in rodents: assessing receptor expression and function
Thomas Mueggler, Christof Baltes, Markus Rudin
Single-particle tracking methods for the study of membrane receptors dynamics
Damien Alcor, Géraldine Gouzer, Antoine Triller
Age matters
James Edgar McCutcheon, Michela Marinelli
Maintaining network activity in submerged hippocampal slices: importance of oxygen supply
Norbert Hájos, Tommas J. Ellender, Rita Zemankovics, Edward O. Mann, Richard Exley, Stephanie J. Cragg, Tamás F. Freund, Ole Paulsen
Is my antibody-staining specific? How to deal with pitfalls of immunohistochemistry
Jean-Marc Fritschy
Pavlovian fear conditioning as a behavioral assay for hippocampus and amygdala function: cautions and caveats
Stephen Maren

Most read articles in 2008:
Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease
Joana M. Gil, Ana Cristina Rego
Rhythmic auditory stimulation modulates gait variability in Parkinson's disease
Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Justine Lowenthal, Talia Herman, Leor Gruendlinger, Chava Peretz, Nir Giladi
Regulation of miRNA expression during neural cell specification
Lena Smirnova, Anja Grafe, Andrea Seiler, Stefan Schumacher, Robert Nitsch, F. Gregory Wulczyn
Diabetes downregulates presynaptic proteins and reduces basal synapsin I phosphorylation in rat retina
Heather D. VanGuilder, Robert M. Brucklacher, Kruti Patel, Rhona W. Ellis, Willard M. Freeman, Alistair J. Barber
Is my antibody-staining specific? How to deal with pitfalls of immunohistochemistry
Jean-Marc Fritschy

European Brain Council:
Read this European Brain Council paper, published in EJN issue 24:10 (November 2006), free online:
Resource allocation to brain research in Europe (RABRE)
P. Sobocki, I. Lekander, S. Berwick, J. Olesen and B. Jönsson