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Reviewer acknowledgements 2017

The editors and staff of BMC Neurology would like to warmly thank the reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 17 (2017).

Jacques Abraini, Canada

Michael Absoud, UK

Nicola Acciarri, Italy

Louise Ada, Australia

Hiroaki Adachi, Japan

Annu Aggarwal, India

Jesus Agulla, Spain

Gülseren Derya Akyüz, Turkey

Salman Al Jerdi, USA

Harry Alexopoulos, Greece

Yasmin Ali O'Keefe, USA

Mohamed Al-Khaled, Germany

Kalron Alon, Israel

Rabeah Al-Temaimi, Kuwait

Francisco Alvarez, Portugal

Maria Pia Amato, Italy

Maria Anagnostouli, Greece

Anuska Andjelkovic-Zochowski, USA

Banu Anlar, Turkey

Jean Marie Annoni, Switzerland

Pietro Annovazzi, Italy

Pasquale Annunziata, Italy

Gallo Antonio, Italy

Antonio Arauz, Mexico

Ozge Arıcı Duz, Turkey

Ivan Arisi, Italy

Kamal Narayan Arya, India

Marc Alain Babi, USA

Ganesh Babulal, USA

Francesca Bagnato, USA

Richard Baker, UK

Inger Johanne Bakken, Norway

Xinjie Bao, USA

Alessio Baricich, Italy

Frank Barone, USA

Jennifer Batchelor, Australia

Amit Batra, India

Ronny Beer, Austria

Selim Benbadis, USA

Barbara B. Bendlin, USA

Maria Donata Benedetti, Italy

Luana Benedetti, Italy

Bruno Benitez, USA

Katherine Berg, Canada

Roberto Bergamaschi, Italy

Benjamin Berger, Germany

Niels P Bergsland, USA

Julie Bernhardt, Australia

Sheshadri Iyengar Raghavan Bhagyashree, India

Pallab Bhattacharya, India

Roongroj Bhidayasiri, Thailand

Pervinder Bhogal, UK

Denis Bichuetti, Brazil

Laurent Billot, Australia

Stephanie Bissel, USA

Ronald Blechschmidt, Germany

Anna Blenda, USA

Matthias Boentert, Germany

Richard Bohannon, USA

Wendy Bollag, USA

Jessica Bolton, USA

Elisa Borsani, Italy

Jason Baxter Boyle, USA

Marek Brabec, Czech Republic

Janet Bray, Australia

Benjamin Bray, UK

John Breitner, Canada

Jannick Brennum, Denmark

Chiara Briani, Italy

James Brorson, USA

Matthijs Brouwer, Netherlands

Nicola Brunetti-Pierri, Italy

James Burke, USA

Cheryl Bushnell, USA

Jinquan Cai, China

Rocco Calabro, Italy

Sarah Camargos, Brazil

Isabella Canavero, Italy

Serrati Carlo, Italy

Attilio Carraro, Italy

Cathy Catroppa, Australia

Michele Cavallari, USA

Antonella Cecchettinia, Italy

Andrew Chan, Switzerland

Kuo-Hsuan Chang, Taiwan

Ya-Ju Chang, Taiwan

Ting Yu Chang, Taiwan

Won Seok Chang, South Korea

Thashi Chang, Sri Lanka

Yung-Yee Chang, Taiwan

Steven Chang, USA

Camille Chatelle, USA

Munmun Chattopadhyay, USA

Naomi Chaytor, USA

Kai Hsiang Chen, Taiwan

Xiaolei Chen, China

Shin Yuan Chen, Taiwan

Pei-Hao Chen, Taiwan

Yingxin Chen, USA

Yangkun Chen, China

Ya-Fang Chen, Taiwan

Fang-Yu Cheng, Taiwan

Srivas Chennu, UK

Jacob Cherian, USA

Han-Lin Chiang, Taiwan

Veronica L.S Chiang, USA

Yoo-Im Choi, South Korea

Renee Chosed, USA

Thomas Christianson, USA

Gabriele Cipriani, Italy

Giovanni Cirillo, Italy

Kristl Claeys, Belgium

Russell Clive Dale, Australia

Alvaro Cobo-Calvo, France

Eleonora Cocco, Italy

Cristoforo Comi, Italy

Diane L. Cookfair, USA

Gianluca Coppola, Italy

Sandra Cornelissen, Belgium

Erwin Cornips, Netherlands

Jonathan Coutinho, Netherlands

Patricia Coyle, USA

Carlos Cruchaga, USA

Luca Cucullo, USA

Robert Danaher, USA

Adrian Danek, Germany

Neha S Dangayach, USA

Rosalia D'Angelo, Italy

Antoine Dany, France

Zhang Daopei, China

Basil T. Darras, USA

Roshan  Dasnair, UK

Peter Davis, USA

Michael Dayan, USA

Imelda De Groot, Netherlands

Deidre Anne De Silva, Singapore

Marina De Tommaso, Italy

Jennifer Lea Dearborn-Tomazos, USA

Monojit Debnath, India

Claudio Degusmao, USA

Kumaran Deiva, France

Kornel Demeter, Hungary

Caner Demir, Turkey

Sharon Demorrow, USA

David Devos, France

Permphan Dharmasaroja, Thailand

Alessio Di Fonzo, Italy

Flavia Di Pietro, Australia

Sebastian Dieguez, Switzerland

Alessia Dinardo, USA

Patrick Dion, Canada

Ondrej Dolezal, UK

Kimiko Domoto-Reilly, USA

Vincenzo Donadio, Italy

Yi Dong, China

Michael Donohue, USA

Scott Douglas Newsome, USA

Avril Drummond, UK

Deepti Dubey, USA

Oana Dumitrascu, USA

Pierre Duquette, Canada

Kamil Duris, Czech Republic

Dipankar Dutta, UK

Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, USA

Jonathan Edlow, USA

Antonio Elia, Italy

Anton Emmanuel, UK

Roland Faigle, USA

Monica Falautano, Italy

Lorenzo Falsetti, Italy

Cristian Falup-Pecurariu, Romania

Jun Yu Fan, Taiwan

Hui Fang, China

Evangelia Farmaki, Greece

Alfonso Fasano, Canada

Oyebola Fasugba, Australia

Cristiano Fava, Sweden

Ryan Felling, USA

Avi Fellner, Israel

Raffaele Ferrari, UK

Diana Ferraro, Italy

Carsten Finke, Germany

Josef Finsterer, Austria

Eoin P. Flanagan, USA

Nils Daniel Forkert, Canada

Fatoye Francis, UK

William H. Frey, USA

Juichi Fujimori, Japan

Shoichi Fukui, Japan

Michitaka Funayama, Japan

H. Gach, USA

Daniela Galimberti, Italy

Amir Garakani, USA

Teresa Garcia-Berrocoso, Spain

Preston Garraghty, USA

Maria Garrett, Portugal

Fred Gentili, Canada

Nupur Ghoshal, USA

Anne-Katrin Giese, USA

Aviram Giladi, USA

Nils Gilhus, Norway

Cheryl M Glazebrook, Canada

Teneille Gofton, Canada

Khean-Jin Goh, Malaysia

Sankalp Gokhale, USA

Stefan Golaszewski, Austria

Francisco Gondim, Brazil

Gillian Gordon Perue, USA

Olivier Gout, France

Nitin Goyal, USA

Maria Grazia Grasso, Italy

Nan Greenwood, UK

Joshua D. Grill, USA

Yuxiang Gu, China

Qi-Hao Guo, China

Jose Gutierrez, USA

Jose Gutierrez, USA

Mario Habek, Croatia

Lewis Haddow, UK

Shaheryar Hafeez, USA

Tim Hagenacker, Germany

Toby Hall, Australia

Ruth Hall, Canada

Adam Handel, USA

Yousef Hannawi, USA

Ernst Albin Hansen, Denmark

Ryan Hansen, USA

Noam Harel, USA

Mark Harrigan, USA

Daniel Harrison, USA

Robert Hart, Canada

Taku Hatano, Japan

Cheryl Hawkes, UK

Shintaro Hayashi, Japan

Peter Hedera, USA

Lizette Heine, Belgium

Thomas Hemmen, USA

Christian Hernandez, USA

Susan Hillier, Australia

Phu Hoang, Australia

Martin Holtkamp, Germany

Hiroyuki Honda, Japan

Chien-Tai Hong, Taiwan

Frances Horgan, Ireland

Mady Hornig, USA

Benjamin Hotter, Germany

Kun Hou, China

Henry Houlden, UK

Cheng-Yang Hsieh, Taiwan

Yi Hu, China

Wei Hua, China

Ying-Zu Huang, Taiwan

Chin-Chang Huang, Taiwan

Yulun Huang, China

Billy Huh, USA

Xuhui Hui, China

Branco Huisa, USA

Norlinah Mohd Ibrahim, Malaysia

Tomihiro Imai, Japan

Panagiotis Ioannidis, Greece

Ahmet Turan Isik, Turkey

Noriko Isobe, Japan

Ifeanyi Iwuchukwu, USA

Eric Jackson, USA

Brian Jankowitz, USA

Stefano Jann, Italy

Ira Jeglinsky-Kankainen, Finland

Christina Jerosch-Herold, USA

Samantha Johnston, Australia

Leanne Johnston, Australia

Jukka Jolkkonen, Finland

George Joseph Hutton, USA

Holger Joswig, Switzerland

Freimut Juengling, Switzerland

Shulamit Kahn, USA

Tomas Kalincik, Australia

Pradip Kumar Umar Kamat, USA

Christian Kamm, Switzerland

Daniel Kantor, USA

Thomai Karagiozoglou, Greece

I. Karakis, USA

Randy H. Kardon, USA

Jan Kassubek, Germany

Meike Kasten, Germany

Hiroshi Kataoka, Japan

Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo, Brazil

Steven E. Katz, USA

Izumi Kawachi, Japan

Patrick Kehoe, UK

Thomas A. Kent, USA

Négar Khanlou, USA

Mizan Khondoker, UK

Joosup Kim, Australia

Tackeun Kim, South Korea

Chi Kyung Kim, South Korea

Byung-Jo Kim, South Korea

Katsuo Kimura, Japan

Wolff Kirsch, USA

Howard Kirshner, USA

Shaye Kivity, Israel

Juliane Klehmet, Germany

Rudolf Kley, Germany

Siegfried Kohler, Germany

Lena Kollen, Sweden

Peter Kolominsky-Rabas, Germany

Nicolas Kon, Singapore

Jaseong Koo, South Korea

Sascha Köpke, Germany

M Koutourousiou, Greece

Wolfram Kress, Germany

Carmen Krewer, Germany

Satish Krishnamurthy, USA

Avinash Kumar Kanodia, UK

Wolfram Kunz, Germany

Miriam Kunz, Netherlands

Mie Kurata, Japan

Hyeok Gyu Kwon, South Korea

Uffe Laessoe, Denmark

Eric Lancaster, USA

Merrill Landers, USA

Roberta Lanzillo, Italy

Alexander Yl Lau, Hong Kong

Stefan Lautenbacher, Germany

Sean Lawler, USA

Alberto Lazarowski, Argentina

Alfonso M. Lechuga-Sancho, Spain

Jin Soo Lee, South Korea

Pei-Lin Lee, Taiwan

Meng Lee, Taiwan

Tsong-Hai Lee, Taiwan

Sylvain Lehmann, France

Helmar Lehmann, Germany

Sophie Mirabell Lehnerer, Germany

Richard Leigh, USA

Antonino Leo, Italy

Stefanie Lerche, Germany

Richard Leventer, Australia

Gwyn Lewis, New Zealand

Mingchang Li, China

Longchuan Li, USA

Ming-Feng Liao, Taiwan

Siew-Na Lim, Taiwan


Thomas Liman, Germany

Jan Liman, Germany

Chin-Hsien Lin, Taiwan

Wey-Yil Lin, Taiwan

Goran Lind, Sweden

Ralf Linker, Germany

Thomas Linsenmann, Germany

Xing Liu, China

Peixi Liu, China

Chunling Liu, China

Raf Llinas, USA

Paul Lockhart, Australia

Incoronata Renata Lonigro, Italy

Marianne Lovstad, Norway

Ming-Kuei Lu, Taiwan

Cheng-Hsien Lu, Taiwan

Alessandra Lugaresi, Italy

Elizabeth Lynch, Australia

Walter Maetzler, Germany

Mariana Maier Gaelzer, Brazil

Dennis Jay Maiman, USA

Hardeep Malhotra, India

John Malone, UK

Falk Mancke, Germany

Angelo Manfredi, Italy

Elisabeth Breese Marsh, USA

Petra Marsico, Switzerland

Joan Martí-Fàbregas, Spain

Stephen Martin Sozio, USA

Vittorio Martinelli, Italy

Jordi A. Matias-Guiu, Spain

Charles Christian Matouk, USA

Rapeephan Maude, USA

Aleš Maver, Slovenia

Doreen McClurg, UK

Karen McCulloch, USA

Raja Mehanna, USA

Hans Michael M. Meinck, Germany

Elena Meseguer, France

Sandy` Middleton, Australia

Robert Mikulík, Czech Republic

Marcello Moccia, Italy

Shekeeb Mohammad, Australia

Maxim V Mokin, USA

Mauro Mondelli, Italy

Nancy Monson, USA

Majaz Moonis, USA

Mohamed Mostafa, Egypt

Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska, UK

Kanchan Mukhopadhyay, India

Maxim Mulder, Netherlands

Sunni Mumford, USA

Sibu Mundiyanapurath, Germany

Hiroyuki Murai, Japan

Takenobu Murakami, Japan

Jacob N. Ablin, Israel

Shahriar Nafissi, Iran

Simon Nagel, Germany

Andrew Naidech, USA

Ki-Woong Nam, South Korea

Kelly Naugle, USA

D Nayak, India

Maiken Nedergaard, USA

Paul Nederkoorn, Netherlands

Michel Neeff, New Zealand

Marian Neidert, Switzerland

Peter Nelson, USA

Flavia  Nelson, USA

John K Neubert, USA

David Newman-Toker, USA

John Ney, USA

Vincent Ng, Singapore

Dahlia Nielsen, USA

Klary E. Niezen-Koning, Netherlands

Shekoufeh Nikfar, Iran

Wang Ningli, China

Shigeru Nishizawa, Japan

Quentin Noirhomme, Belgium

Elmar Nöth, Germany

Boya Nugraha, Germany

Dervla O’Malley, Ireland

Laura Obici, Italy

James Odom, USA

Fi Ojini, Nigeria

Muideen Olaiya, Australia

Ángel Oliva-Pascual-Vaca, Spain

Mike Onken, USA

Daniele Orsucci, Italy

Francesco Orzi, USA

Christian Ovesen, Denmark

Pavel Ovseiko, UK

Inken Padberg, Germany

Luca Padua, Italy

Fatima Paiva, Portugal

Natalia Palacios, USA

Vimal Paliwal, India

Prakash Paliwal, Singapore

Lekha Pandit, India

Theresa L Pape, USA

Davide Pareyson, Italy

Jong-Ho Park, South Korea

Kwang-Yeol Park, South Korea

Joy Parrish, USA

Wania Partata, Brazil

Marco Pasi, USA

Francesco Patti, Italy

Friedemann Paul, Germany

Efterpi Pavlidou, Greece

Piero Pavone, Italy

Tatjana Pekmezovic, Serbia

Galit Pelled, USA

Amanda C. Peltier, USA

Marie-Hélène Pennestri, Canada

Keith Pennypacker, USA

Guey-Chuen Perng, Taiwan

Alexander Pietras, Sweden

Pedro Nuno Ferreira Pinto De Oliveira, Portugal

Élcio Juliato Piovesan, Brazil

Kalliopi Pitarokoili, Germany

Marco Pitteri, Italy

Simon Podnar, Slovakia

Burcu Polat, Turkey

Zdravka Poljakovic, Croatia

Jennie Ponsford, USA

Veronica Popescu, Belgium

Enrico Premi, Italy

Daniel R. Premkumar, USA

Luca Prosperini, Italy

François Proust, France

Maria Pia Prudenzano, Italy

Giovanni Maria Puddu, Italy

Sara Pulit, Netherlands

Zhao Qianhua, China

Tianming Qiu, China

Joseph Quinn, USA

Ricardas Radisauskas, Lithuania

Saša Radovanović, Serbia

Amol Raheja, India

Goran Rakocevic, USA

Joel Ramirez, Canada

Isuru Ranasinghe, Australia

Gerhard N Ransmayr, Austria

C Rathore, India

Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel Razek, Egypt

Ester Reggio, USA

Jens Reimann, Germany

Alan Renton, USA

John Ringman, USA

Paolo Ripellino, Switzerland

Richard Rison, USA

Victor Rivera, USA

Jared Robbins, USA

Chaturaka Rodrigo, Sri Lanka

Valerie E. Rogers, USA

Francisco Javier Ros Forteza, Portugal

Raymond Rosales, Philippines

Sverre Rosenbaum, Denmark

Axel Rosengart, USA

Catherine Rougeot, France

A. Shaun Rowe, USA

Thorsten Rudroff, USA

Klemens Ruprecht, Germany

Hamidreza Saber, USA

Rosaria Sacco, Switzerland

Afshin Saffari, Germany

Gerard Said, France

Kazumasa Saigoh, Japan

Leanne Sakzewski, Australia

Mohammad Salajegheh, USA

Felipe Hada Sanders, Brazil

Nobuo Sanjo, Japan

Nicola Saywell, New Zealand

Jakub Scaber, UK

Ulrike Schara, Germany

Michael Schartner, UK

Franziska Scheibe, Germany

Nadja Scherbakov, Germany

Raphael Schiffmann, USA

Uwe Schlegel, Germany

Martin Schmelz, Germany

Holger Schmidt, Germany

Christiane Schneider-Gold, Germany

Michael Schocke, Germany

Peter Schofield, Australia

Sonja Scholz, USA

Benedikt Schoser, Germany

Vittorio Sciruicchio, Italy

Annalisa Sechi, Italy

Raymond Chee Seet, Singapore

Marc Seifman, Australia

Klaus Seppi, Austria

Giuliano Sette, Italy

Sahadev Shankarappa, India

Joseph Shapiro, USA

Pk Sharma, India

Lisa Sheehy, Canada

Robert Shenkar, USA

Neil Shepard, USA

Koji Shinoda, Japan

Ashkan Shoamanes, Canada

Xuefei Shou, China

Eberhard Siebert, Germany

Fatma Silan, Turkey

Andréia Maria Silva, Brazil

Valerie Sim, Canada

Karen Simonyan, Armenia

Steve Simpson Jr, Australia

Mamta Bhushan Singh, India

Konstantin Slavin, USA

Jerusa Smid, Brazil

Craig Smith, UK

Bruno Soares, USA

Tao Song, China

Masahiro Sonoo, Japan

Helen Southwood, New Zealand

Karl Sporer, USA

Sybil Stacpoole, UK

James Stefaniak, UK

Caspar Stephani, Germany

Fred Stephen Sarfo, Ghana

Hanna Stevens, USA

Ljiljana Stojković, Serbia

Erwin Stolz, Germany

Tamsyn Street, UK

Roy Strowd, USA

Sam Stuart, UK

Kushak Suchdev, USA

Taku Sugiyama, Japan

Sangeetha Sukumari-Rames, USA

Vaishali Suri, India

Greg Sutherland, Australia

Miguel Tábuas-Pereira, Portugal

Mei- Ling Sharon Tai, Malaysia

Yi-Cheng Tai, Taiwan

Jason Talbott, USA

Chantal Tallaksen, Norway

Benjamin Tan, Singapore

Jiping Tang, USA

Yu Tang, USA

Denise Taylor, New Zealand

Robert Taylor, UK

Kristina Tedroff, USA

Hélio Teive, Brazil

Jose Francisco Tellez-Zenteno, Canada

Nikolaos Tentolouris, Greece

Ak Thacker, India

Evan Thacker, USA

Andreas Themistocleous, UK

Marjaana Tiainen, Finland

Maarten Titulaer, Netherlands

David Tong, USA

Anthony Traboulsee, Canada

Helen Tremlett, Canada

Luigi Trojano, Italy

Thomas Clement Truelsen, Denmark

Andrea Truini, Italy

Paula Trujillo Diaz, USA

Tamara Tse, Australia

Christina I. Tsien, USA

Rich Tyler, USA

Ergun Uc, USA

Antonino Uncini, Italy

Ravi Uniyal, India

Ksenia Ustinova, USA

Kimiaki Utsugisawa, Japan

Ingo Uttner, Germany

Farhaan Vahidy, USA

Nadine van der Beek, Netherlands

Anja van der Kolk, Netherlands

Ingrid van der Mei, Australia

Bart van der Worp, Netherlands

Hubertus van Hedel, Switzerland

Robbert-Jan van Hooff, Belgium

Assunção Vaz Pato, Portugal

Eleonora Vecchio, Italy

Peter Veldkamp, USA

Catello Vollono, Italy

Kajetan Von Eckardstein, Germany

Natalia Vykhodtseva, USA

Ryan Wagner, South Africa

Mark E. Wagshul, USA

Gordon Waiter, UK

Lisa Walker, Canada

Marion Walker, UK

Ruth Walker, USA

Mitchell Wallin, USA

Han-Cheng Wang, Taiwan

Qing Wang, China

Jiun-Jie Wang, Taiwan

Pei-Ning Wang, Taiwan

Mohammad Wasay, Pakistan

Peter Charles Watson, UK

Kuo-Chen Wei, Taiwan

David Weidman, USA

Louis Weimer, USA

Nicolas Weiss, France

Steven J. West, UK

Eric Westman, Sweden

William Whitehouse, UK

Clayton A. Wiley, USA

Nefyn Howard Williams, UK

France Woimant, France

Stefan Wolf, Germany

Ernst Wolvetang, Australia

Connie Wong, Australia

Steven Paul Woods, USA

Graeme Woodworth, USA

Tony Wright, Australia

Hsiu-Chuan Wu, Taiwan

Yun-Cheng Wu, China

Zhi-Ying Wu, China

Yih-Ru Wu, Taiwan

Glenn Wylie, USA

Yunyun Xiong, China

Pei Xu, USA

Juan Xu, China

Ryo Yamasaki, Japan

Satoshi Yamashita, Japan

Bernard Yan, Australia

Qing Yang, China

Yu Wang Yang, Taiwan

Bing Yang, USA

Görsev Yener, Turkey

Leonard Yeo, Singapore

Grace Yoon, Canada

Hiroaki Yoshikawa, Japan

David Yousem, USA

Charlotte Ytterberg, Sweden

Christopher Yuskaitis, USA

Antonia Zapf, Germany

Xinghu Zhang, China

Yuannv Zhang, China

Henry Zhao, Australia

Dong Zhong, China

Nan Zhou, China

Zhe Zhu, USA

Wendy Ziai, USA

Robert Zivadinov, USA

Saša A. Živković, USA

Jana Zschüntzsch, Germany

Frederic Zubler, Switzerland

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