Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on July 27, 2005
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2005 31(3):607; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbi042
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Editorial
The new editorial group assumed responsibility for the Schizophrenia Bulletin with the January 2005 issue. In the first editorial, a vision for the journal's future was outlined, and new features were described. With this issue we provide our first theme with a focus on what has been learned from longitudinal study of first episode patients. John Waddington is the guest editor and did a remarkable service for the Bulletin in pulling together the six articles with five months between inception and receipt of reviewed and revised manuscripts. Our thanks to the authors for the informative studies and for great work with little time.
Another plan for the Bulletin is to publish high-quality unsolicited manuscripts containing data that fit with themes. In this issue we have five articles previously accepted that relate to longitudinal studies. Thanks to former editor John Hsiao for supplying these articles for this issue. We also have our first unsolicited report, which fits with the theme. Martin Harrow and colleagues report on remission and recovery in a first episode cohort followed for 15 years.
We plan special features relating to genes, environmental risk factors, neuroscience concepts, and clinical concepts. We initiate this new forum with a description of schizophrenia risk associated with cannabis consumption and a description of the neuregulin gene and its association with schizophrenia. Robin Murray is the associate editor for the quarterly gene and environment feature and is working with Jim van Os and Michael Owens to create brief educational reviews in each of these areas.
Each issue of the Bulletin will carry 1–3 groups of papers organized around a theme. We anticipate publishing original data reports that relate to the themes and that together with the reviews will generate substantial interest. Potential authors can anticipate upcoming themes. The next two issues will carry four themes: preclinical models of cognitive impairment, clinical cognition related to therapy and rehabilitation, issues in ethics, and the negative symptom construct. For the April, July, and October issues in 2006 we plan themes on co-occurring substance abuse, high-risk individuals, promotion of recovery, cognition, genotype/phenotype relations, and philosophy and psychopathology. Our first theme on early intervention/prodrome treatment will probably come early in 2007. We will continue to review and publish some high-quality original reports and reviews that are submitted independent of announced themes.
Authors, please note that Manuscript Central has been modified for Schizophrenia Bulletin and is now fully functional. We have thus far been able to provide rapid review and decisions, and the process will be facilitated by complete electronic management of manuscripts. Authors and subscribers are reminded that manuscripts go online as soon as they are typeset and corrected, and they are available ahead of print. Also, as a service to the field, we will soon place past issues from 1969 onward online.
We think we are off to a good start, with much help from our editorial board, reviewers, and authors. Suggestions are welcome.
Editor-in-Chief, Schizophrenia Bulletin
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