Passages 2019

Over the past year the Journal of Comparative Neurology (JCN) completed the implementation of its new layout, style, and overall design, that was introduced by our publisher, John Wiley & Sons, for many of its science journals. The new style offers an enhanced legibility of the journal's content and maintains the very high quality of illustrations that characterizes JCN. In parallel, we continued to streamline our guidelines to make the submission procedures easier for our contributors, including authors who desire to transfer papers from other journals that use a different manuscript format, in keeping with our goal to publish top-quality research papers and reviews that have an impact on the field of neuroscience. It is worthwhile to note that authors can submit review-quality figures to JCN, with the expectation that publication-quality material be submitted upon acceptance. It is our goal to encourage submissions to JCN, without the barriers authors experienced in the past.

In 2018, continuing our initiative to highlight important neuroscience topics in JCN through Special Issues, we focused on completing several on-going projects. We begin by opening the 2019 volume with a Special Issue on the structure and function of the vertebrate retina that was assembled under the leadership of Andrew Huberman (Stanford University), an Associate Editor of JCN. We are also very pleased to dedicate this special issue to Harvey Karten for his outstanding contributions to the functional anatomy of the retina and visual pathways in vertebrates, and for being one of the journal's leading contributor and supporter. Two other special issues are near completion, one edited by Jon Kaas to honor the late Vivien Casagrande, who has been a wonderful member of the JCN community throughout her career. The other follows from a successful special issue published in 2016 that contained papers from the first conference on cortical evolution, organized by Veronica Martinez-Cerdeño. Veronica held a second conference in 2018 in the Canaries Islands and many of these presentations will be edited in a special issue to appear in 2019. Our fourth special issue project will highlight emerging, cutting-edge developments in mouse brain imaging. It was initiated by Shawn Mikula. Shawn was appointed to the Editorial Board of JCN in 2018, and, with characteristic enthusiasm, he immediately volunteered to put together this special issue and recruited outstanding investigators to provide papers that would broadly cover trending approaches to mouse brain imaging. It is my very sad duty to report the sudden passing of Shawn last summer. We lost one of neuroscience rising scholars and a wonderful colleague. The mouse brain imaging special issue will be edited in his honor by some of the contributors and myself and will be published in 2019. As always, we are extremely grateful for the commitment and efforts of the contributors and Guest Editors of these special issues that reflect the continued involvement of our journal in promoting novelty and scholarship in the study of the functional anatomy of the nervous system.

In addition, we are pleased to announce an initiative to expand the scope of interests of JCN in 2019. Our journal's main focus is systems neuroscience, although we do not intend to define this narrowly. In fact the concept of “comparative neurology”, firmly part of the journal's original name, implies a broad umbrella of interests that encompasses the study of pathological conditions and models of brain diseases. This latter area has been less represented among the contributed papers to the journal in recent years and we are launching a project aiming to recruit more submissions in animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders.

None of this would happen without the tireless dedication of our Associate Editors and members of the Editorial Board who are advisors to the Editor, and serve as JCN's ambassadors in the neuroscience community. Our Board counts now 50 members, and every year the Editors elect new members and may reappoint some of the previous Board members. This year we are welcoming four new members to our Board, Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Dr. Mary Ann Raghanti, Dr. Marcello Rosa, and Dr. Zhengang Yang. We look forward to their contributions during their service on the Board. In this context, I had the pleasure of presenting the 2018 Sanford L. Palay Award in Structural Neuroscience at the Cajal Club Social during the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego, to one of our distinguished Editorial Board members, Dr. Kristen M. Harris, from the University of Texas at Austin, for her outstanding contributions to our understanding of synaptic structure and function in health and disease. This award was presented on the behalf of JCN and its publisher, John Wiley & Sons.

We are also most grateful to our Publishing Editor, Melissa Asaro, for her constant efforts managing, improving, and promoting our journal, and to our management team, Erica Byrd and Kathrina Borromeo, who oversee the processing of submissions and special issues, work closely with our contributors and our production team, ensuring that our day-to-day operations run smoothly.

Finally, I extend my deep gratitude to the many colleagues, listed below, who participated in the peer-review process of manuscripts for the journal in 2018. As always, our journal can maintain its high standards of quality and its reputation only through their scholarly dedication and professional expertise.

Adams, Michael

Ahnelt, Peter K.

Ai, Hiroyuki

Aicher, Sue

Aizawa, Hidenori

Alheid, George

Allen, Charles

Allison, W. Ted

Alloway, Kevin

Alsina, Berta

Alvarez, Francisco

Anadon, Ramon

Andrade, Rodrigo

Angelov, Doychin

Angelucci, Alessandra

Antal, Miklosrad

Anton, Eva

Apicella, Alfonso

Arckens, Lutgarde

Armstrong, Caren

Arnsten, Amy

Arroyo, Edgardo J.

Auld, Vanessa

Azim, Eiman

Badaut, Jerome

Baird, Emily

Baizer, Joan

Baldwin, Mary

Bales, Karen

Balthazart, Jacques

Baram, Tallie Z.

Bartlett, Edward

Basso, Michele

Baxter, Mark

Benson, Deanna

Berg, Bente

Berridge, Kent

Berthoud, Hans-Rudolf

Biagini, Giuseppe

Bickford, Martha E

Biederer, Thomas

Bigiani, Albertino

Birman, Serge

Bjaalie, Jan

Bjorklund, Anders

Blackshaw, Seth

Bodznick, David

Bornstein, Joel

Borrell, Victor

Bottjer, Sarah

Bourne, James

Bourne, Jennifer

Braford, Mark

Briggs, Farran

Brown, Rosemary

Bruner, Emiliano

Brunjes, Peter

Budinger, Eike

Buonanno, Andres

Caldwell, Heather

Campbell, Polly

Cant, Nell

Casanova, Christian

Casanova, Manuel

Celio, Marco

Cenci-Nilsson, Angela

charli, jean-louis

Chedotal, Alain

Chen, Bin

Chen, Li Min

chrobak, james

Chubykin, Alexander

Coen, Clive

Coimbra, João

Colognato, Holly

Colombo, Jorge

Cookson, Mark

Coon, Steven

Cornil, Charlotte

Counts, Scott

Covey, Ellen

Crockett, D.P.

Cunningham, J. Thomas

Dacks, Andrew

Dallman, Julia

Dawson, Valina

de Bivort, Benjamin

De Camilli, Pietro

De Carlos, Juan

De Lucia, Marzia

Deans, Michael

Dehay, Colette

Delville, Yvon

Derby, Charles

Desimone, Robert

Desplan, Claude

Dhande, Onkar

Dickson, Tracey

Dietrich, W. Dalton

Disney, Anita

DonCarlos, Lydia

Donner, Kristian

Dudek, Serena

Dumitriu, Dani

Dymecki, Susan

Edds-Walton, Peggy L.

Ekker, Marc

Elphick, Maurice

Elsworth, John

Erisir, Alev

Erskine, Lynda

Eschenko, Oxana

Etherington, Sarah J.

Evrard, Henry

Fairen, Alfonso

Felmy, Felix

Fernyhough, Paul

Finger, Thomas

Fletcher, Erica

Flores, Gonzalo

Folgueira, Mónica

Forti, Lia

Fox, Michael

French, Catherine

Frost, William

Fuller, David D.

Furness, John

Gahr, Manfred

Gaillard, Dany

Gallio, Marco

Galve-Roperh, Ismael

Garcia, M. L.

Garcia-Marin, Virginia

Gaspar, Jeleky

Ge, Shaoyu

German, Dwight

Geula, Changiz

Gilette, Rhanor

Goldowitz, Dan

Gray, Jason

Greer, Charles

Gremel, Christina

Grillner, Sten

Gronenberg, Wulfila

Güntürkün, Onur

Haider, Bilal

Hajihosseini, Mohammad

Hammond, Donna

Handa, Robert

Hannibal, Jens

Hartenstein, Volker

Hayes, Matt

Hay-Schmidt, Anders

Hedwig, Berthold

Helfrich-Förster, Charlotte

Hengen, Keith

Herculano-Houzel, Suzana

Herman, James

Hermey, Guido

Hibi, Masahiko

Higashijima, Shin-ichi

Hodge, Rebecca D.

Hof, Patrick

Holmes, Melissa

Holstege, Gert

Homberg, Uwe

Horton, Jonathan

Horton, Jonathan C.

Horvath, Tamas

Huberman, Andrew

Hülsmann, Swen

Huntley, George W.

Huttner, Wieland B.

Ikegama, Taro

Ikemoto, Satoshi

Illig, Kurt

Ishida, Andrew

Ivanusic, Jason

Iwaniuk, Andrew

Jackson, Rob

Jarvis, Erich

Jeff, Riffell

jennings, kimberly

Johnson, Frank

Jones, Theresa A.

Juavinett, Ashley

Juliano, Sharon

Kaas, Jon

Kaczmarek, Leonard

Kamikouchi, Azusa

Kanoski, Scott

Karten, Harvey

Kastner, Sabine

Kawakami, Koichi

Kawasaki, Hiroshi

Kawata, Mitsuhiro

Kay, Jeremy

Khan, Arshad

Khodosevich, Konstantin

Kidd, Grahame

Kinoshita, Junzo

Kinoshita, Michiyo

Klimaschewski, Lars

Koike, Masato

Kovacs, K.

Kreissl, Sabine

Kritzer, Mary

Krubitzer, Leah

Kuba, Hiroshi

Laberge, Frederic

Land, Michael

Lauterborn, Julie

Leergaard, Trygve

Lehman, Michael

Lemon, Roger

Lin, Wensheng

Lingor, Paul

Liu, Qing-Song

Llano, Daniel

Llewellyn-Smith, Ida

Longo, Frank M.

Luhmann, Heiko

Lyon, David

Ma, Qiufu

MacDonald, Matthew

Maier, Alexander

Maler, Leonard

Malmierca, Manuel

Manger, Paul

Marin, oscar

Martin, John

Martin, Paul

Martinez, Salvador

Maruska, Karen

Mathur, Brian

May, Paul

McCarthy, Margaret

McClay, david

Mcdonald, Alexander

McKemy, David

McKinley, Michael

McMullan, Simon

Medina, Loreta

Meech, Robert

Meinertzhagen, Ian

Mello, Claudio

Mercuri, Nicola B

Meshul, Charles

Mesulam, Marek-Marsel

Mikula, Shawn (DECEASED)

Miller, Jeffrey

Milner, Teresa

Mirzadeh, Zaman

Mitchell, Jude

Miyawaki, Atsushi

Mohlin, Camilla

Møller, Morten

Molnar, Zoltan

Moore, Robert Y.

Moorman, David

Morawski, Markus

Morecraft, Robert

Moreno, Nerea

Mpodozis, Jorge

Muñoz-Cueto, Jose A.

Myers, Martin

Myoga, Michael

Namiki, Shigehiro

Naneix, Fabien

Napper, Ruth

Nässel, Dick

Nauhaus, Ian

Neubauer, Simon

Neuhauss, Stephan

Nicholson, Dan

Niimura, Yoshihito

Nitsch, Cordula

Noctor, Stephen

Nunez, Alexa

O'Donnell, Sean

Oertel, Donata

Ogawa, Satoshi

O'Halloran, Ken D.

Ohno, Nobuhiko

Okamoto, Hitoshi

Okuno, Hiroyuki

Oosthuizen, Maria

Orman, Rena

Orr, Miranda

Osborne, Peregrine

Osten, Pavel

Ott, Swidbert

Palomero-Gallagher, Nicola

Papadaki, Efrosini

Parent, Martin

Perkel, David

Person, Abigail

Pessoa, Luiz

Petry, Heywood

Pickard, Gary

Pierchala, Brian

Pittman, Quentin

Pombal, Manuel

Poole, Daniel

Powers, Alice

Prevot, Vincent

Price, David

Pritz, Michael

Puelles, Luis

Pushchin, Igor

Puthussery, Teresa

Radim, Sumbera

Raghanti, Mary Ann

Ragsdale, Clifton

Rantamäki, Tomi

Rapp, Peter

Rattenborg, Niels

Raymond, Pamela

Reese, Benjamin

Reiner, Anton

Reser, David

Restrepo, Diego

Rice, Margaret

Richards, Linda

Rieff, Dierk

Riley, Bruce B

Rind, F. Claire

Risold, Pierre-Yves

Robinson, Jane

Rodrigo Albors, Aida

Rodráguez-Moldes, Isabel

Rosa, Marcello

Roth, Gerhard

Rouyer, François

Rubel, Edwin

Rubenstein, John

Ruegg, Markus

Ruigrok, Tom

Rushmore, R.

Russo, Raúl

Rybak, Jürgen

Sachse, Silke

Sanes, Joshua

Saper, Clifford

Sasaki, Mitsuyoshi

Sawamoto, Kazunobu

Schlinger, Barney

Schlossmacher, Michael

Schmidt, Joachim

Schofield, Brett

Schonewille, Martijn

Schumann, Cynthia

Schwartz, Gary

Schwartz, Gregory

Schwarzacher, Stephan

Schwob, James

Selzer, Michael

Sessle, Barry

Shafer, Orie

Sharkey, Keith

Shea, Thomas

Sheeba, Vasu

Shehab, Safa Aldeen

Shepherd, Jason

Sherwood, Chet

Shi, Song-Hai

Shibutani, Makoto

Shimogori, Tomomi

Shinomiya, Kazunori

Shipley, Michael

Siegenthaler, Julie

Sillitoe, Roy

Silver, Debra

Simo, Rafael

Sincich, Lawrence

Sliwa, Julia

Slomianka, Lutz

Smith, Phillip

Smith, Yoland

Soares, Juliana

Somoza, Gustavo

Song, Mi-Ryoung

Speer, Colenso

Spires-Jones, Tara

Sprengel, Rolf

Stabio, Maureen

Stafford, Benjamin

Steinbusch, Harry

Stell, William

Stewart, Bryan

Stieger, Bruno

Stolzberg, Daniel

Strand, Christine

Subhedar, Nishikant

Sucena, Elio

Sullivan, Patrick

Sulzer, David

Sur, Mriganka

Tabuchi, Akiko

Takahashi, Jun

Thiele, Alexander

Thompson, John

Tian, Ning

Todd, Andrew

Tomioka, Kenji

Torner, Luz

Travers, Susan

Triplett, Jason W.

Tripodi, Marco

Tseng, Kuei

Tubingen, Henry

Usrey, W. Martin

Valdez, Gregorio

Vanden Broeck, Jozef

Vaucher, Elvire

Verkhratsky, Alexj

Vertes, Robert

Vigh, Jozsef

Vilaro, Teresa

Volkoff, Helene

Volpicelli, Laura

Wang, Quanxin

Warburton, Clea

Watakabe, Akiya

Watson, Charles R

Watts, Alan

Wei, Wei

Wei, Youzhen

White, Benjamin

Whitlock, Kathleen

Widmer, Hans

Williams, Megan

Williams, Stephen

Wirths, Oliver

Wisden, William

Witzemann, Veit

Wolfe, John

Wolff, Mathieu

Wolff, Tanya

Wu, Doris

Wullimann, Mario

Wylie, Douglas

Xie, Fang

Xu, Xiangmin

Xu, Ying

Yamamoto, Naoyuki

Yang, Zhengang

Yoshii, Taishi

Younes, Kyan

Yu, Xiang

Zahm, Daniel

Zeng, Jinsheng

Zhang, Yong Q.

Zhang, Zheng Gang

Zhou, Min

*Includes Reviewers who have completed reviews between November 1, 2017 and October 31, 2018