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It is a special privilege for us to write this preface in the special issue dedicated to Dr. Andreas Plaitakis, who has devoted his life both to neuroscience research and clinical neurology. It is hard to summarize his achievements in a few lines. However, one can say that the big loves of his life (apart from his daughters Ariadne and Iris, his granddaughter Sophia and his wife Oana-Cristina) are Crete, Kassos, New York, tennis and glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH). Andreas Plaitakis was born and grew up in Crete, during the hard period that immediately followed World-War II. He attended the Medical School of the University of Athens. He graduated in 1968, during troubled times for Greece. Then, after a compulsory military service of two years, he was assigned by the Ministry of Health of Greece to serve as the only physician on the island of Kassos (1970–1972), which belongs to the Dodecanese group of islands in South-East Greece. In this small and isolated island, he had to practice front line medicine without having the security provided by a nearby hospital. He quickly organized and run a Health Station that included electrocardiographic equipment, a small clinical laboratory equipped with state of the art coulter counter and a I. Zaganas (&) Neurology Laboratory, Medical School, University of Crete, Voutes, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece e-mail: johnzag@med.uoc.gr; johnzag@yahoo.com

A Neurologist with a Lifetime Fascination for Neurochemistry: Preface for the Special Issue Dedicated to Dr. Andreas Plaitakis