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About the Editors 
D O N A L D W. P F A F F heads the Laboratory of 
Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller Uni- 
versity. He received his scientific training at Harvard 
University and MIT and is a member of the Na- 
tional Academy of Science and a Fellow of the Amer- 
ican Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pfaff's labora- 
tory focuses on steroid hormones and brain function, 
interactions among transcription factors, luteinizing- 
hormone-releasing-hormone neurons, and genes influ- 
encing neuronal functions. He is the author or coau- 
thor of over 10 books and more than 600 research 
publications. 
ARTHUR P. ARNOLD, professor of physiological sci- 
ence at UCLA, was educated at Grinnell College and 
The Rockefeller University. He has been named a Fel- 
low of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and 
of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, and was the inaugural president of the Society 
for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. Arnold's laboratory 
studies sexual differentiation of the brain and the effects 
of steroid hormones on neurons. Recently, the focus of 
his research has been on the role of the sex chromo- 
somes in brain development. Much of his work has 
been on two neural systems that are sensitive to go- 
nadal steroidsmthe neural circuit for song in Passerine 
birds and the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus. 
ANNE M. ETGEN is professor in the Departments of 
Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein Col- 
lege of Medicine. She received her scientific training 
at the University of California, Irvine, and Columbia 
University. She is a two-time recipient of Research Sci- 
entist Development Awards and MERIT Awards from 
NIMH. Etgen served as director of the Sue Golding 
Graduate Division on Biomedical Sciences at the Al- 
bert Einstein College of Medicine (1997-2000) and has 
been on the External Advisory Committee for the Mi- 
nority Fellowship Program in the Neurosciences since 
1999. Her laboratory focuses on the mechanisms un- 
derlying ovarian steroid hormone regulation of female 
reproductive physiology and behavior, with a particu- 
lar emphasis on the hormonal regulation of neurotrans- 
mission. She is the author or coauthor of approximately 
100 research publications. 
SUSAN E. FAHRBACH is professor in the Department 
of Entomology and a member of the Neuroscience Pro- 
gram at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
She was named University Scholar and is the direc- 
tor of the Howard Hughes Program for Undergraduate 
Education in the Life Sciences at Illinois. She has re- 
ceived numerous awards for teaching, including being 
named an Illinois Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Fellow, 
and is a mentor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sci- 
ences Teaching Academy. She was introduced to the 
study of the mechanisms of behavior as an undergrad- 
uate at the University of Pennsylvania. She then stud- 
ied physiology at Oxford University with the goal of 
becoming a physiological psychologist. Her studies of 
the endocrine mediation of maternal behavior in ro- 
dents as a graduate student at The Rockefeller Univer- 
sity led to her current broad interests in the hormonal 
regulation of behavior, while postdoctoral work at the 
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University of Washington stimulated an interest in in- 
sect models. 
ROBERT T. RUBIN, M.D., Ph.D., is Highmark Blue 
Cross Blue Shield Professor of Neurosciences and 
professor of psychiatry at the MCP Hahnemann 
University School of Medicine, Allegheny General 
Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining 
Allegheny General Hospital in 1992, he was professor 
of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA 
School of Medicine. He is certified in psychiatry by 
the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and 
he has a Ph.D. in physiology. For more than 30 years, 
his research has focused on the neuroendocrinology of 
stress and depression. Currently, he is studying the in- 
fluence of ace@choline neurotransmission in the brain 
on the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal 
cortical axis. Rubin also has a clinical practice in adult 
psychiatry, specializing in the treatment of bipolar dis- 
ease, depressive disorders, and anxiety disorders.