This number is very special for me. It is the last one for me as editor of InFo NEUROLOGIE & PSYCHIATRIE.
It’s kind of a last party. But this number has little in common with the content of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”. Don Giovanni is probably a nobleman who drinks, fights, loves and seduces. You won’t find all that in this number. On the other hand, thanks to the authors, this number also has more to do with the music of Mozart: once again a masterpiece has been created, because in the usual way various experts have put their knowledge at the disposal of the readership.
The tenth (!) year as editor of Neurological Topics has just passed for me. A brief flashback to the first number of December 2003 suggests itself. What has animated our magazine over the past ten years?
Leafing through the back issues, it is clear to see: Some things have moved. Various new treatments were edited by diverse authors. There was, for example, the introduction of new, better-tolerated neuroleptics: The treatment of multiple sclerosis to prevent relapses has moved from pioneering
Therapy with injections of beta-interferon (with systemic side effects affecting quality of life) changed to peroral therapy with high effect. Several new anti-epileptic drugs with improved tolerability were also introduced.
The perception of different diseases has changed their meaning, such as the differentiation of different forms of dementia. Prevention of stroke has improved, and new oral anticoagulants that specifically inhibit the activity of certain clotting factors will change the use of the less specific vitamin K antagonists, predominantly coumarins, in the near future. Acute stroke is being treated more and more quickly with thrombolysis, and in Switzerland an organized network is being set up for the comprehensive treatment of stroke patients involving stroke units and centers… This list makes no claim to be exhaustive and could be continued almost at will.
After ten years as editor, the right moment seems to have come to hand over the successful and established journal InFo NEUROLOGIE & PSYCHIATRIE to my successor: With the handover of the baton to Prof. Barbara Tettenborn from St. Gallen, we have the guarantee that we will be able to continue to publish the journal in a promising manner in the future. I wish her every success, but above all a lot of fun in her new exciting task.
Now it is time to say goodbye. I would like to thank my colleague and co-editor of Psychiatry Prof. Erich Seifritz, the Editor-in-Chief Séverine Bonini and the entire editorial staff at PPM MEDIC for the heart and soul and the professional work that has been put into the journal over all these years and will certainly continue to be put into it in the future. I know the magazine is in good hands. Here’s to the next ten years of InFo NEUROLOGY & PSYCHIATRY!
Cordially, your
Prof. Dr. med. Philippe Lyrer
InFo NEUROLOGY & PSYCHIATRY 2013; 11(6): 1.
