Neuropharmacology publishes high quality, original research within the discipline of neuroscience. The emphasis of Neuropharmacology is on the study and understanding of the actions of known exogenous and endogenous chemical agents on neurobiological processes in the mammalian nervous system. Work with non-mammalian and invertebrate species may be considered in exceptional circumstances. The journal does not usually accept clinical research, although neuropharmacological studies in humans may be considered on the condition that they provide novel insight into either the actions of drugs and/or neurobiological mechanisms. The journal only considers submissions in which the chemical structures and compositions of experimental agents are readily available in the literature or disclosed by the authors in the submitted manuscript. Similarly, manuscripts describing the use of natural products will only be considered if the active ingredient is known and disclosed.


The journal publishes Special Issues in which leading experts are invited to serve as Guest Editors to compile a collection of reviews, and occasionally original articles, around a particular topical theme in neuroscience research. The list of recent Special Issues can be found here. Suggestions for Special Issues can be made directly to the Editor-in-Chief.

Neuropharmacology also publishes topical narrative reviews on subjects within its remit. These reviews are commissioned by the Editorial Team or arise after correspondence with potential authors. Unsolicited reviews will be considered, but authors are encouraged to contact the Editor-in-Chief of their intention to submit a review. Potential review authors should clearly indicate their expertise in the area, and how the review differs from, and adds to, recent published reviews on related topics. On the basis of the case made by authors, potential overlap with planned Neuropharmacology content, and discussions with the Editorial Team, the Editor-in-Chief will provide authors with a prompt decision regarding the proposed review. Systematic reviews, meta- or bibliographic analyses will not be considered unless they are a necessary part of a Special Issue and conducted by experts in the field, and even then only under exceptional circumstances and at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.

Editor-in-Chief
Bruno Frenguelli
University of Warwick, Coventry, England, United Kingdom Email Bruno Frenguelli
Senior Editors
Stuart Allan
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Ángeles Almeida
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Detlev Boison
Rutgers Brain Health Institute, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
John Cryan
University College Cork National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
Fernanda G. De Felice
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Thérèse Di Paolo
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Thomas Gould
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Michaela Kress
Medical University of Innsbruck Institute of Physiology, Innsbruck, Austria
Christopher Parsons
Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Marisa Roberto
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States
David Slattery
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Igor Spigelman
UCLA School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, California, United States
Jared Young
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
Editorial Board Members
Nii Addy
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Carine Ali
Pathophysiology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders, Caen, France
Vaishali Bakshi
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Brian Baldo
University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Nicholas Barnes
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Frank Barone
Suny Downstate Medical Center Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, New York, New York, United States
Alasdair Barr
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Michael H. Baumann
National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Catherine Belzung
University of Tours, Tours, France
Angelique Bordey
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Amy Brewster
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Jonathan Brigman
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Michael Bruchas
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Adriaan Bruijnzeel
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Maarten van den Buuse
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, Australia
Regina Carelli
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Eero Castren
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Guiquan Chen
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Jiang-Fan Chen
Wenzhou Medical University School of Optometry and Ophthalmology, Wenzhou, China
Gerard Clarke
University College Cork National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
María Isabel Colado
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Jeff Conn
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Anis Contractor
Northwestern University Department of Physiology, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Mark Cunningham
University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Anne-Marie van Dam
VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ceri Davies
GlaxoSmithKline Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore
Mariella De Biasi
Ruth and Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Chris Dulla
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Fabrizio Gasparini
Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
Carla Ghelardini
University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
Nicholas Gilpin
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Robert Greene
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States
Karen Gregory
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Parkville, Australia
David Heal
RenaSci Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Andrew Holmes
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Laboratory of Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience, Rockville, Maryland, United States
Christian Hölscher
Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China
Yasmin Hurd
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Psychiatry, Friedman Brain Institute, New York, New York, United States
Peter Hutson
Shire Pharmaceuticals Chesterbrook, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States
Peter Illes
University of Leipzig Institute of Pharmacology Pharmacy and Toxicology, Leipzig, Germany
Carrie Jones
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Thomas Kash
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Áine Kelly
University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Paul Kenny
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
Steven Gregory Kinsey
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
Wolfgang Löscher
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany
David Lovinger
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Rockville Office, Rockville, Maryland, United States
Ken Mackie
Indiana University Bloomington Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Rafael Maldonado
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Robert Malenka
Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford, California, United States
Olivier Manzoni
Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology, Marseille, France
Hélène Marie
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Valbonne, France
Francesco Matrisciano
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chris McBain
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Daniel McGehee
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Lisa M. Monteggia
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States
Stephen Moss
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Ferdinando Nicoletti
University of Catania Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Catania, Italy
M. Foster Olive
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Olivia O’Leary
University College Cork National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
Menelas Pangolas
Pfizer Global Research and Development, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Andrzej Pilc
Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
Graziano Pinna
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Anna Pittaluga
University of Genoa Department of Pharmacy, Genoa, Italy
Victoria Risbrough
University of California San Diego Department of Psychology, La Jolla, California, United States
Michael Robinson
University of Pennsylvania Department of Pharmacology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Stephanie Schorge
University College London Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
Nicolas Singewald
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Nuno Sousa
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Yael Stern-Bach
Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Yerushalayim, Israel
Per Svenningsson
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Andrew Tapper
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Scott Thompson
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Lawrence Toll
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States
Henning Ulrich
University of Sao Paulo Department of Biochemistry, São Paulo, Brazil
Vidita Vaidya
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Cinzia Volontè
Santa Lucia Foundation Institute for Hospitalization and Care Scientific, Roma, Italy
Mark Wall
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Gregers Wegener
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Danny Winder
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Marina E. Wolf
Oregon Health & Science University Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Portland, Oregon, United States
Bryan Yamamoto
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Tang Yong
Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
Xiang Yu
Institute of Neuroscience Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Xiongwei Zhu
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States