Neuron Reports

Editorial Neuron Reports bers of our Board of Associate Editors. We are looking If you flip back a few pages to the Table of Contents, you will notice something new. A new article format forward to continuing to work with the entire Editorial called a " Report. " In this particular case it is an article Board to ensure that Neuron brings you the best and by Saal et al. from Rob Malenka's lab demonstrating most exciting research in the neurosciences. that drugs of abuse and stress (but not nonaddictive Second, if you've been listening to NPR's " All Things psychoactive drugs) induce a similar form of synaptic Considered " in the lab or reading the New York Times plasticity in midbrain dopaminergic neurons, pointing or Wall Street Journal and have noticed a colleague's to a potentially shared cellular mechanism that distin-work being highlighted, it may well be because of Neu-guishes addictive and nonaddictive drugs. We hope that ron's new press release program. For every issue, a this will be the first of many Reports published in Neuron. professional freelance science writer pens a brief sum-Why add a new article format? The decision was driven mary of two or three of the articles that have a take-by Neuron's commitment to publishing thought-pro-home message that we think might be of interest to the voking conceptual advances in the field of neuroscience greater public, and the press release is emailed out to and our belief that one size does not necessarily fit all. 300 science journalists and editors at major news ven-Our goal with this new format is to encourage the author ues worldwide. Our goal in this is to ensure maximum with an exciting new story who is thinking that it just visibility for the work Neuron publishes and to promote doesn't " feel " like a Neuron paper (perhaps they are awareness of advances in neuroscientific research to thinking that it " feels " more like a Letter to Nature) to the larger nonscientific public. To date, the press release think of Neuron as an appropriate venue. In considering initiative has been extremely successful. submitted Reports, we promise, as for all submitted Third, in keeping with our aim of making each Neuron manuscripts, a rapid first-pass editorial evaluation, a article accessible to a broad neuroscience readership fast, fair, and thoughtful review process, accessible edi-and encouraging crossdisciplinary scholarship, we have tors …