JAMA Neurology

Mission Statement: The mission of JAMA Neurology is to publish scientific information primarily important for those physicians caring for people with neurologic disorders but also for those interested in the structure and function of the normal and diseased nervous system. These specific aims are (1) to make timely publication of original research of the nervous system, (2) to record observations of single patients or groups of patients that will provide new information and insights, (3) to report more basic research that is pertinent to the understanding of disease, (4) to introduce topics of practice, ethics, teaching, and history that are useful, and (5) to provide a forum for discussion on topics that may be controversial in this field. This information will be published only after extensive peer review so that originality, clarity, and precision are ensured.

• Editor S. Andrew Josephson, MD

• Bernard S. Chang, MD, Boston, Massachusetts

• Dena B. Dubal, MD, PhD, San Francisco, California

• Ari J. Green, MD, MCR, San Francisco, California

• Hooman Kamel, MD, New York, New York

• Michael S. Okun, MD, Gainesville, Florida

• Gil D. Rabinovici, MD, San Francisco, California

• Kate Denevan, San Francisco, California

• UCSF Department of Neurology

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• San Francisco, CA 94143

• Phone: (415) 502-5627

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• Nancy K. Hills, PhD, San Francisco, California

• John P. Betjemann, MD, San Francisco, California

• Samuel J. Pleasure, MD, PhD, San Francisco, California

• Amy A. Gelfand, MD, San Francisco, California

• Dena B. Dubal, MD, PhD, San Francisco, California

• Maulik P. Shah, MD, MHS, San Francisco, California

• Carl W. Bazil, MD, PhD, New York, New York

• Louis R. Caplan, MD, Boston, Massachusetts

• Merit E. Cudkowicz, MD, MSc, Boston, Massachusetts

• Steven T. DeKosky, MD, Gainesville, Florida

• Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Vladimir Hachinski, MD, DSc, London, Ontario

• Randolph S. Marshall, MD, MS, New York, New York

• Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, San Francisco, California

• Michael K. Racke, MD, Columbus, Ohio

• Mya C. Schiess, MD, Houston, Texas

• Thomas R. Swift, MD, Augusta, Georgia

• Kenneth L. Tyler, MD, Denver, Colorado

• Paul C. Van Ness, MD, Houston, Texas

• Oded Abramsky, MD, PhD, Jerusalem, Israel

• Samir F. Atweh, MD, Beirut, Lebanon

• Paula Coutinho, MD, PhD, Porto, Portugal

• Alexandra Dürr, MD, Paris, France

• Bruno Estanol, MD, Mexico City, Mexico

• Bernhard Hemmer, MD, Munich, Germany

• Olle Lindvall, MD, PhD, Lund, Sweden

• Colin Masters, MD, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Michail Piradov, MD, Moscow, Russia

• Niphon Poungvarin, MD, FRCP, Bangkok, Thailand

• Anthony H. V. Schapira, DSc, MD, FRCP, London, England

• Bhim S. Singhal, MD, Bombay, India

• Eduardo Tolosa, MD, Barcelona, Spain

• Shoji Tsuji, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan

• Harold G. Wolff, MD, 1959-1963

• H. Houston Merritt, MD, 1963-1972

• Fred Plum, MD, 1972-1976

• Maurice Van Allen, MD, 1976-1981

• Robert J. Joynt, MD, PhD, 1982-1997

• Roger N. Rosenberg, MD, 1997-2016

• Editor in Chief Emeritus

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• Editor in Chief, The JAMA Network Howard Bauchner, MD

• Executive Editor Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, MBA

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