Brain, Vol. 127, No. 8, 1689-1690,
August 2004
© 2004 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awh240
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Editorial
Cambridge
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With this issue, the tenures of John Newsom-Davis and John Rothwell end as Editor and Deputy Editor of Brain, respectively. In deciding some time ago that no Editor should serve for more than 7 years, the Guarantors of Brain are electing to sign off a great team. For this has been a period in which Brain has strengthened its position in the upper echelon of clinical and basic neuroscience journals, and been ahead of the game in anticipating trends in publishing and the needs of our readers. With their distinguished personal records of achievement in neuroimmunology as applied to disorders of the neuromuscular junction and paraneoplastic diseases, and in motor control, John Newsom-Davis and John Rothwell have steered readers of Brain into the modern era of cell and molecular mechanisms of disease. Without courting bibliometric markers of success, they have moved Brain