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In Praise of Headache: A Farewell to psalms
It has been my custom to write once a year and thank those who make the Journal function so well. It has been a pleasure for me to do so and I do it no less enjoyably this year, although I would confess tinged with some regret for this is my last such message. Cephalalgia has published much in recent years that sings praise to headache, and often cited, could be seen as a collection of psalms (lowercase in deference to David's who influence me) to the subject.
Let me start by thanking our referees who are the backbone of the scientific effort. Tirelessly and without more than the intellectual reward of the task, year on year, and 2008 no exception, they have served the field by their thoughtful, helpful and constructive comments. The field is richer for their efforts and I thank them, as do the Associate Editors and indeed I think many authors who often remark how useful reviews can be. On this thought, the Journal is remarkably democratic and so it is that I thank the Associate Editors. Each brings particular expertise, considerable judgement and a dedication that gives us good turnaround, sensible decisions and a very broad coverage of our field. Lastly for the Journal let me thank you the reader, and the many authors who submit and publish their work here. We see some of the very best submissions in our field; it is a pleasure to read and facilitate their publication. I realize, as I have remarked in the past, that no one submits work for rejection. I can assure you that everyone, myself and the Associate Editors included, have had manuscripts rejected from the Journal. I would not pretend that I was jollier being rejected from this than any other journal, but it is the process; flawed but usually fair. Over the last years when it has not worked I am sorry and I take responsibility.
Since this is my last editorial I have the option, unfettered, to look back and muse, and then look forward. When I was first enticed to headache by Jim Lance we had ergotamine, we used methysergide and phenelzine, and diydroergotamine had just started to be employed in hospital. I grew up neurologically in a world dominated by a giant who taught me headache was both biologically fascinating and clinically an opportunity to do great good. It was a shock to me when I went abroad to find not everyone thought that way, a shock I have never really gotten used to. I can confirm it is biologically fascinating—these pages pay testament to that; and I hope we have all done a little good clinically so far. How wonderful an opportunity we have to build on what has been, to dissect the mechanisms at the bench, to translate these to brain imaging and clinical trials, and then to apply this knowledge in clinic. As we end the first decade of the twenty-first century we have at least two new totally novel approaches to treatment, calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonists and 5-HT1F receptor agonists; treatment trials in prevention ongoing, and neuromodulation approaches across a range of intractable primary headaches previously greeted with, at best, a serious shake of the head. I see such a bright future for those of us involved and more importantly for our patients.
Lastly, it has been, without doubt, one of the singular highlights of my career, a distinct honour and a great opportunity personally to edit this Journal. I can only thank most sincerely everyone involved since 2000 when I took over, and wish the new team ever greater good fortune in the future. Cephalalgia has been a great affair, with some scars of battle as befits the job, and much pleasure to compensate. One certainly leaves the Editor-in-Chief role walking in the rain, just a little … a Farewell to psalms, as you could say.
Cephalalgia Referees in the year 2008
Dr. Anne Hege Aamodt
Dr. Judit Afra
Dr. Shazia Afridi
Dr. Maria Isabel Aguilar
Dr. Andrew Ahn
Dr. Simon Akerman
Mr. Karl Bj⊘rnar Alstadhaug
Dr. Anna Ambrosini
Dr. Andrea Antal
Prof. Fabio Antonaci
Dr. Gian Paolo Anzola
Dr. John Arena
Dr. Guy Arnold
Dr. Messoud Ashina
Dr. Sait Ashina
Dr. Avi Ashkenazi
Dr. Michel Aube
Dr. Sheena Aurora
Dr. Thorsten Bartsch
Dr. Steve Baskin
Prof. Pier Antonio Battistella
Dr. Werner John Becker
Dr. Lars Bendtsen
Prof. Fabrizio Benedetti
Dr. Isabela M. Bensenor
Dr. Sebnem Bicakci
Prof. Marcelo Eduardo Bigal
Dr. David Biondi
Dr. Bentley Bobrow
Dr. Chris Boes
Dr. Nikolai Bogduk
Dr. Valentin Bohotin
Prof. Hayrunnisa Bolay
Dr. Carlos Alberto Bordini
Dr. Jonathan Borkum
Dr. Didier Bouhassira
Prof. Thomas Brandt
Dr. Filippo Brighina
Dr. Bas de Bruijn
Dr. Brian Burns
Dr. Rami Burstein
Dr. Dawn Buse
Prof. Gennaro Bussone
Dr. Maria Gabriella Buzzi
Dr. Roger Cady
Dr. Peter Camfield
Dr. Hans Carpay
Dr. Andrew Charles
Dr. William P. Cheshire
Dr. Elisabetta Cittadini
Dr. Anna Cohen
Dr. Gianluca Coppola
Dr. Michael Cossoy
Dr. Connie K. Cottrell
Dr. Antonio Marcos da Silva Catharino
Prof. Carl G. H. Dahlof
Dr. Domenico D'Amico
Dr. Giovanni D'Andrea
Mr. Willem De Hertogh
Dr. Jan de Hoon
Prof. Marina de Tommaso
Dr. Boukje de Vries
Prof. Cesar Fernandez de-las-Penas
Dr. Bart Demaerschalk
Dr. Luis A. Díaz-Martínez
Dr. Martin Dichgans
Prof. Hans-Christoph Diener
Dr. Izabela Domitrz
Dr. Henri Doods
Dr. Andrew Dowson
Prof. Jens P. Dreier
Dr. Jana B. Drew
Dr. Monica Drottning
Prof. Peter D. Drummond
Dr. Anne Ducros
Dr. Paul Durham
Dr. Katharina Eikermann-Haerter
Prof. Karl Ekbom
Prof. Jens Ellrich
Dr. Eric Eross
Prof. Mustafa Ertas
Dr. Manfredo man Esposito
Dr. Randolph Warren Evans
Dr. Stefan Evers
Dr. Pi-Chuan Fan
Dr. Kathy Farmer
Dr. Alan G. Finkel
Dr. Florence Portet
Prof. Rune Frants
Dr. Torbjorn Fredriksen
Dr. William Freeman
Dr. Frederick G. Freitag
Dr. Deborah Isa Friedman
Dr. Arnaud Fumal
Dr. Federica Galli
Dr. Andreas R. Gantenbein
Dr. Ann Gardner
Dr. Ivan Garza
Dr. B. Georg
Dr. Jonathan Gladstone
Prof. Hartmut Göbel
Dr. Judith Green
Dr. Lyn Griffiths
Dr. Brian M. Grosberg
Prof. Vincenzo Guidetti
Dr. Saurabh Gupta
Dr. Nathalie Guy
Dr. Joost Haan
Prof. Nouchine Hadjikhani
Prof. Edith Hamel
Dr. Sandra Hamelsky
Dr. Beverley Hancock
Mr. Jacob Sander Hansen
Prof. M.G. Harrington
Ms. Andrea Marie Harriott
Dr. Marion Heinrich
Dr. Jaimie Henderson
Dr. Katherine Henry
Dr. Dirk Hermann
Dr. Andrew D. Hershey
Dr. Philip Robert Holland
Dr. Gay Holstein
Dr. Timothy Houle
Dr. Henry Hu
Dr. Gal Ifergane
Dr. Pablo Irimia
Dr. Inger Jansen-Olesen
Dr. Joanna Jen
Prof. Rigmor Jensen
Prof. Troels Staehelin Jensen
Dr. Anne Joutel
Dr. Gabriella Juhasz
Prof. Gwendolen Anne Jull
Dr. Mikko Kallela
Dr. Zaza Katsarava
Dr. Leslie Kelman
Dr. Ralph Z. Kern
Dr. Yolande Knight
Dr. Diana Krause
Dr. Peter Kropp
Dr. Mark C. Kruit
Mr. Michael Kueper
Dr. Ron Kupers
Dr. Aniko Kuris
Dr. Tobias Kurth
Prof. Miguel J. A. Lainez
Dr. Alvin Lake III
Dr. Christian Lampl
Prof. James W. Lance
Dr. Michel Lanteri-Minet
Dr. Andrew J. Larner
Dr. Bo Larsson
Dr. Katarina Laurell
Prof. Francesco Le Pira
Prof. Thomas Lempert
Dr. Marc E. Lenaerts
Dr. Massimo Leone
Dr. Linda LeResche
Prof. David Levine
Dr. Miles Jonathan Levy
Dr. Dan Levy
Dr. Donald Lewis
Dr. David Liebetanz
Prof. Volker Limmroth
Dr. Mattias A. Linde
Dr. Elizabeth W. Loder
Dr. Nancy C. Low
Dr. Sylvia Lucas
Dr. Lise Lykke Thomsen
Dr. Anne Macgregor
Dr. Kenneth Mack
Prof. Alain S. Maertens de Noordhout
Dr. Morris Maizels
Prof. Kari Majamaa
Prof. Gian Camillo Manzoni
Dr. Vincent Martin
Dr. Antoinette MassenVanDenBrink
Dr. Helene Massiou
Dr. Manjit Matharu
Dr. Ninan Mathew
Dr. Arne May
Dr. Patricia McGrath
Dr. Allison M. McKendrick
Prof. Karl B. Messlinger
Dr. Panayiotis D. Mitsias
Dr. Dimos D. Mitsikostas
Dr. Bahram Mokri
Prof. Pasquale Montagna
Dr. Justin Moon
Dr. Maria Moreno
Dr. Wim Mulleners
Dr. Jim Nagy
Dr. Stehanie Nahas
Mrs. Yvonne Nestoriuc
Dr. Rob Nicholson
Dr. Mark Obermann
Dr. Ketil Joachim Oedegaard
Dr. Rieke Oelkers
Prof. Jes Olesen
Dr. Roel A. Ophoff
Dr. Michael Oshinsky
Dr. Ann Pakalnis
Dr. Juan A. Pareja
Dr. Julio Pascual
Prof. Jan Passchier
Dr. Mario F. P. Peres
Dr. Stephen J. Peroutka
Dr. Michele Peters
Dr. Volker Pfaffenrath
Dr. H Susan J. Picavat
Dr. Paolo Piccinelli
Dr. Scott W. Powers
Dr. Alberto Proietti Cecchini
Prof. William Pryse-Phillips
Prof. Allan Purdy
Dr. Luiz Paulo Queiroz
Dr. Francoise Radat
Dr. Jeanetta C. Rains
Dr. Alan M. Rapoport
Dr. K Ravishankar
Dr. Ana Recober
Dr. Uwe Reuter
Dr. Jamie Rhudy
Dr. Peter Richman
Mr. Brett A. Robertson
Dr. Paul Rolan
Dr. Noah Rosen
Dr. Paolo Rossi
Prof. Michael Bj⊘rn Russell
Dr. Andrew Russo
Prof. Fumihiko Sakai
Dr. Margarita Sanchez del Rio
Prof. Trond Sand
Dr. Peter S. Sandor
Prof. Giorgio Sandrini
Dr. Joel Saper
Dr. Paola Sarchielli
Prof. Pramod R. Saxena
Dr. Ann Scher
Dr. Wouter I. Schievink
Prof. Jean Schoenen
Dr. Guus Schoonman
Dr. Todd J. Schwedt
Prof. Stefano Seri
Dr. Robert E. Shapiro
Dr. Alex Shepherd
Dr. Elizabeth Sherman
Dr. Cheolsu Shin
Prof. Stephen D. Silberstein
Prof. Mauro Silvestrini
Dr. Aneesh Singhal
Dr. Byron Spencer
Dr. Till Sprenger
Dr. Anan Srikiatkhachorn
Dr. Anine Stam
Dr. Timothy Steiner
Dr. Walter F. Stewart
Dr. Marlind A. Stiles
Dr. Robin James Storer
Prof. Lars Jacob Stovner
Prof. Andreas Straube
Dr. Michael Strupp
Dr. Julie Suhr
Dr. A. Suyaphan
Dr. Jerry Swanson
Dr. Janos Tajti
Dr. Robert Tarzwell
Dr. Cristina Tassorelli
Dr. Frederick R. Taylor
Prof. Bradley Taylor
Dr. S. Teerasaksilp
Dr. Stewart J. Tepper
Dr. Antonio Terron
Dr. Gisela Marie Terwindt
Dr. Peer Tfelt-Hansen
Dr. Gretchen E. Tietjen
Mr. Boris Todorov
Dr. Emine Handan Tuzun
Dr. Dominique Valade
Dr. Massimiliano Valeriani
Dr. Arn van den Maagdenberg
Mr. Johannes C. van der Wouden
Dr. Maarten van Eerd
Dr. Hans van Suijlekom
Dr. Jan van Zundert
Mrs. Kaate Vanmolkot
Dr. Kathryn Vannatta
Dr. Bert Vargas
Dr. Domingos Savio Souza Vieira
Dr. Michael von Brevern
Dr. Michael Von Korff
Dr. Christian Waeber
Dr. Elisabet Waldenlind
Dr. Michael Wall
Prof. Wei Wang
Dr. Shuu-Jiun Wang
Dr. Thomas Ward
Dr. Judith Warner
Dr. Mark Weatherall
Dr. Frances Wilkinson
Prof. Christian Wöber
Prof. Cicek Wober-Bingol
Prof. David Yarnitsky
Dr. Marcy Yonker
Dr. William B. Young
Prof. Tarek Yousry
Dr. Alessandro Zagami