**About the Editor**

**Masaru Tanaka**, M.D., Ph.D., has been a Research Fellow in the MTA-SZTE Neuroscience Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the University of Szeged (MTA-SZTE) since 2005. His scientific interests include depression, anxiety, dementia and pain, and their comorbid nature in neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders. His current research focuses on the antidepressant, anxiolytic and nootropic effects of neuropeptides, neurohormones and tryptophan metabolites, and their analogues in animal models of behavior and psychiatric disease. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Integrative Neuroscience and Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine, an advisory board member of Biology and Life Sciences, and a section board member of Biomedicines. He obtained a PhD in Medicine (1998) and an MD in General Medicine from the University of Szeged, and bachelor's degrees in Biophysics (1987) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
