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Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Editorial Board Members

Editor-in-Chief

Zhiqing Xu

Capital Medical University, China

He received his Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Currently, he works as a professor at the Departments of Neurobiology and Pathology and the Chair of the Department of Pathology at Capital Medical University, China. He also serves as the Chair of the Branch of Neurobiology of Stress, Chinese Neuroscience Society. Prof. Xu’s lab has worked extensively on neurobiological mechanisms underlying stress-related depression and novel therapeutic targets for treatment of depression.

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Bingxing Pan

Nanchang University, China

He received his Ph.D degree from First Military Medical University, China (2004), and received his postdoctoral training at National Institutes of Health, USA (2005–2009). He is now a senior professor and principal investigator in Institute of Life Science, Nanchang University (2010-present). His current research interests are focused on neural circuit mechanisms of stress-related psychiatric disorders, with a particular interest in anxiety disorders.

Per Svenningsson

Karolinska University Hospital / Karolinska Institute, Sweden

He is a professor and senior consultant in neurology, Deptartment of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital/Deptartment of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. He has 378 publications with 16990 citations (H-index 71, Web of Science) and authores 10 book chapters. He is a member of the Nobel Committee deciding the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (2022–present) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (2022–present).

Xiaodong Wang

Zhejiang University, China

He received his Ph.D. degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (2011), and received his postdoctoral training at Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (2011–2012). He worked as an associate investigator in Peking University Sixth Hospital (2013), and now is a principal investigator at the Department of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (2013–present). His current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of stress-related psychiatric disorders and the neural circuit basis of anxiety.

Tifei Yuan

Shanghai Mental Health Center, China

He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Geneva (2013). He was a professor at the School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University (2013–2017), and now is a professor at Shanghai Mental Health Centre. He has published plenty of high-quality papers in journals such as Neuron and Molecular Psychiatry. His current research interests are focused on the brain mechanisms of addiction and mental illness.

Editorial Board Members

Andrew Holmes

National Institutes of Health, USA

Cheng Zhan

National Institute of Biological Sciences, China

David Murphy

University of Bristol, UK

Dongsheng Zhou

Ningbo Kangning Hospital, China

Erno J. Hermans

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, the Netherlands

Gal Richter-Levin

University of Haifa, Israel

Gonglin Hou

Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China

Haitao Wu

Institute of Cognition and Brain Sciences, China

Hao Wang

Zhejiang University, China

Jan Deussing

Max Planck Institute, Germany

Jiajin Yuan

Southwest University, China

John Cryan

University College Cork, UK

Minghu Han

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Rongjun Yu

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sergio Machado

Salgado de Oliveira University, Brazil

Shaozheng Qin

Beijing Norman University, China

Wen Li

Florida State University, USA

Weiwen Wang

Institute of psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Xiaohua Cao

East China Normal University, China

Xingshun Xu

Soochow University, China