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Adapted from an original acrylic on canvas, Regulation of DNA Structure in Memory Formation is an artistic interpretation of recent discoveries of a role for active DNA methylation and demethylation in long-term behavioral modification in the CNS. The artist is J David Sweatt, Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, and a contributor to this volume of Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews