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My personal story with Clinical Neuropsychiatry dates back to about twenty years when I received a telephone call from an unknown Giovanni Fioriti who qualified himself as a colleague and a scientific publisher in Rome. He told me that he had in mind an ambitious project that strongly stimulated my curiosity, and that became clearer when we met thereafter. The project was centered on the possibility of a synergic collaboration devoted to the birth and launch of a scientific journal named Clinical Neuropsychiatry just in the neuropsychiatry domain published by Giovanni Fioriti together with other five editors. The prerequisite was that the journal had not to be sponsored by anybody, had to be open to all alternative explanations with no prejudice against any personal opinion, while considering only the scientific quality of the submissions, with its specific aims to carefully evaluate available therapeutic strategies in psychiatry and neurology.

Throughout the years I became Editor-in-chief, with the assistance of Giovanni Fioriti, Giulia Zanatta, our secretary, and the editorial board of colleagues who contributed both in publishing and in the review processes. As the submissions constantly increased, it became necessary to add an associate editor mainly dealing with the psychological domains, namely Prof. Adriano Schimmenti who soon became and constitutes a fundamental “tile” of the journal. Further, we felt that the introduction to the content of the papers published in each issue might be of help to the readership and, therefore, we have now the section called “article highlights” that Dr. Federico Mucci perfectly handles. All these constant …