Addiction Biology is focused on neuroscience 
contributions and it aims to advance our understanding of the 
action of drugs of abuse and addictive processes. Papers are 
accepted in both animal experimentation or clinical research. The 
content is geared towards behavioral, molecular, genetic, 
biochemical, neuro-biological and pharmacology aspects of these 
fields.
Addiction Biology includes peer-reviewed original 
research reports and reviews.
Addiction Biology is published on behalf of the Society 
for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs (SSA). 
Members of the Society for the Study of Addiction receive the 
Journal as part of their annual membership subscription. For 
further details, please contact the Society at http://www.addiction-ssa.org.

Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Rainer Spanagel
Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH)
Institute of Psychopharmacology
Heidelberg University
D-68159 Mannheim
Germany
Editorial Secretary
Christine Roggenkamp
Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH)
Heidelberg University
J5
D-68159 Mannheim
Germany
addiction.biology@zi-mannheim.de
Regional Offices

Senior Editor for North America (Human Studies)
Rajita Sinha
Yale
School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
2 Church Street South
New Haven, CT 06519
USA
Senior Editor for North America (Basic and Preclinical Studies)
Robert O. Messing
The University of Texas at Austin
1601B Trinity Street, HBD 5.320
Mail Stop Z0700 Austin, TX 78712
USA
Senior Editor for Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia (Human Studies)
Markus Heilig
Linköping University
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN)
SE-581 83 LINKÖPING
Sweden

Senior Editor for Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia (Basic and Preclinical Studies)
Rainer Spanagel
Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH)
Institute of Psychopharmacology
Heidelberg University
D-68159 Mannheim
Germany
Reviewing Editors
Georgy Bakalkin - Sweden
Christina Barr - USA
Anil Batra - Germany
Alexis Bailey - UK
David Belin - UK
Ainhoa Bilbao-Leis - Germany
Stefan Bleich - Germany
Bill Carlezon - USA
Rosana Camarini - Brazil
Roberto Ciccocioppo - Italy
Jeff Dalley - UK
Veronique Deroche-Gamonet - France
Dora Duka - UK
Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca - Spain
Johan Franck - Sweden
Teresa Franklin - USA
Jean-Antoine Girault - France
David Goldman - USA
Katia Gysling - Chile
Christian Heidbreder - USA
Stephen C. Heinrichs - USA
Andrew Holmes - USA 
Yasmin Hurd - USA
Petri Hyytiä - Finland
Yedy Israel - Chile
Falk Kiefer - Germany
Brigitte Kieffer - France
Hank Kranzler - USA
Mary Jeanne Kreek - USA
Andrew Lawrence - Australia
Lorenzo Leggio - USA
Anne Lingford-Hughes - UK
Hilary Little - UK
David Lovinger - USA
Christian Lüscher - Switzerland
Rafael Maldonado - Spain
Christian Müller - Germany
M. Foster Olive - USA
Ryszard Przewlocki - Poland
Dorit Ron - USA
Scott Russo - USA
Andrey Ryabinin - USA
Susan Schenk - New Zealand
Gunter Schumann - UK
Yavin Shaham - USA
Mohammed Shoaib - UK
Rajita Sinha - USA
Michael Smolka - Germany
Wolfgang Sommer - Germany
Dai Stephens - UK
Tsutomu Suzuki - Japan
Karen Szumlinski - USA
Boris Tabakoff - USA
Todd Thiele - USA
Thomas Tzschentke - Germany
Louk Vanderschuren - The Netherlands
Elise M. Weerts - USA
Friedbert Weiss - USA
Reinout Wiers - The Netherlands
Gerald Zernig - Austria
Andreas Zimmer - Germany
Ulrich Zimmermann - Germany