Neurobiology 1. (1993)

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Editorial You are keeping in your hand the first issue of a new international journal, Neurobiology, and you may wonder why it was necessary to add one more forum to the great number of already existing ones. The main reason is that there was an increasing interest in studying the nervous system during the last century, since the famous silver impregnation technique was employed in the eternal work, of Ramon v Cajal, capable of characterizing the neuron, as a unit and, also the primary principles of organization of the peripheral and central nervous system were discovered. With the widening range of approaches and methods, the existing scientific disciplines regularly incorporated studies of neurons by techniques relevant to their own field. An increasing number of data on neurons and the perception of the general significance of the nervous system in animal and human life led to the fact that neuroscience has become a strong discipline in the last few decades, accompanied by the publishing of many distinctive "Neuro-journals". In addition, the last decade of the century was even named the ".Decade of the Brain" stressing further, for people of our age, the importance of studies on the central nervous system. In recognition of these trends, Akadémiai Kiadó has decided to change the principal discipline of one of its former journals (Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Hungarica) into an international, multidisciplinary neuroscience journal by launching Neurobiology. This new journal wishes to attract contributions from all related areas. Neurobiology will cover all traditionally known and newly emerging subdisciplines of neuroscience, like morphology, histochemistry, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, behaviour, molecular neurobiology, modelling of neuronal function, glial system, sensory systems, etc. To promote studies and publications in neuroscience, discounted reprint order is offered to young authors and those without prior publications within this discipline. Neurobiology wishes to support rapid scientific communication of scientists from all over the world and, at the same time, wants to be the primary forum for publications from the recently formed, independent Hungarian N euroscience Association. The Journal would like to be a mouthpiece of researchers to express their views on different matters. Through organization of its large, international Editorial/Advisory Board and temporary contribution by other experts, Neurobiology will be able to advise authors to find appropriate and high quality formats for presenting their results. Readers, potential and recent authors, in turn, are expected to support by their comments and papers the initial, wide scope of the Journal, or to put an emphasis on several subdisciplines, which may suggest us to create a more specific aspect during the coming months and years, to better serve the needs of scientific communication in this field. This is our present goal supported also by the future efforts of the Board and the Publisher. The Editors

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