Elsevier Announces New Editor-in-Chief for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

NEW YORK, January 19, 2011 - Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
information products and solutions, is pleased to announce that Professor
John F. Guzowski of University of California, Irvine, has accepted the
position of Editor-in-Chief of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
(www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622924/descript
ion#description). He succeeds Professor Paul E. Gold of University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from January 1, 2011.

Professor Guzowski expects to maintain and enhance Neurobiology of
Learning and Memory's position as a premier journal of the field. He is
committed to expediting the review process and prompting communication with
authors. "I am truly honored to be appointed to succeed Professor Paul Gold,"
Professor Guzowski commented. "In his tenure as Editor, Paul has done an
outstanding job of making the journal a place where researchers studying
memory at multiple levels of analysis come to publish their findings in a
timely fashion and to a broad readership. I take over as Editor with the
journal in a very strong position, and will work to increase its presence in
up and coming research areas of interest to the field of Learning and
Memory."

Professor Guzowski received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and
Biochemistry from UC Irvine. After postdoctoral research at UC Irvine and
Johns Hopkins University, he established an independent NIH (National
Institutes of Health) funded research program at the University of Arizona
and subsequently at the University of New Mexico. His research investigates
the role of gene expression, induced by synaptic activity associated with
learning, in stabilizing neuronal networks subserving the encoding or
consolidation of long-term memories. In 2010 he was appointed as the first
James L. McGaugh Chair in the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, in
recognition of his pioneering work examining the molecular and cellular
network mechanisms of long-term memory.

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is unique in its range and provides a
forum for developing and nurturing an international community of scholars and
practitioners who are interested in all aspects of the neurobiology of
learning and memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory welcomes high
quality articles that contribute to the full range of research on neural and
behavioral plasticity, including learning and memory and related aspects of
neural adaptation, at all levels of analysis from molecular biology to
behavior.

About Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622924/descripti
on#description) publishes articles concerned with neural and behavioral
plasticity, including learning and memory and related aspects of neural
adaptation, at all levels of analysis from molecular biology to behavior.
Research areas include all areas of the neurobiology of learning and memory.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory includes major theoretical, research, and
review papers; research reports; brief reports; rapid communications; and
notes.

    In addition, the following two categories are featured:

    - Minireviews that succinctly survey appropriate areas of current
      research or theory
    - Commentaries that serve as vehicles for brief presentations of new
      theories, hypotheses, points of view, or critiques of current research

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