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Editorial
Richard A. Sherman, Ph.D. Editor
Our Founding Editor, Sadaf Ahmed, just received yet another prestigious award And
It is time to revive pamphlets as an intermediate between brief review papers and full-length books as a means of getting targeted information to professionals

The Award: I am proud to bring your attention to the founding editor of our journal (and current managing editor) having received yet another prestigious award. Dr. Sadaf Ahmed received the Society for Neuroscience’s Science Educator Award for 2025, which was presented at their annual meeting. The award is supported by the Allen Institute.  Among her other honors and awards, Sadaf was recently recognized as one of the four top women in the neurosciences from under-resourced areas. She continues to mentor students from many fields, which has resulted in their producing outstanding research. For example, this issue of Annals contains an article by Dr. Sara Rafique, which reviews the material leading to her study on the relationship between stress and periodontal problems.
It is Time to revive pamphlets as a means of getting targeted information to professionals: The way professionals gain knowledge of relatively narrow, targeted material is changing rapidly. There seems to be less interest in purchasing entire books when the books cover far more material than a particular topic of interest. Journals used to publish lengthy supplements to issues to meet the needs when there was too much material for a review article, but a full-length book was not warranted. That practice also appears to be seen less often. Websites providing a plethora of material have proliferated but there is frequently no way to assess the credibility of the sites and their claims. It is time for journals to step into the breach to provide peer-reviewed pamphlets covering narrow, targeted topics of interest to professionals who do not want to read an entire book on a broader topic or spend time gathering sufficient review articles to provide the crucial information. The Annals of Psychophysiology and the Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation (which sponsors this journal) will begin publishing a series of pamphlets intended to meet this need starting with one on magnetic therapies for pain and brain-based disorders then continuing with pamphlets covering various aspects of biofeedback including neurofeedback and muscle tension biofeedback.
