In 2019 he was elected a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the editorial committee of the journal Life Science (1990–2006), he is currently a member of the editorial committee of the European Journal of Pharmacology (from 2004) and Addiction Biology (since 2009). He is married to Barbara Przewłocka, a neuropharmacologist, professor of medical sciences at the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Learning. He has two sons, Mikołaj and Szymon. Selected papers PRZEWŁOCKI R. Lasoń W., Konecka A., Gramsch C., Herz A., Reid L.: The opioid peptides dynorphin, circadian rhythms and starvation. Science 1983, 219, 71-72. Stein C., Hassan A.H.S., PRZEWŁOCKI R., Gramsch C., Peter K., Herz A.: Opioids from immunocytes interact with receptors on sensory nerves to inhibit nociception in inflammation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1990, 87, 5935-5939. Przewlocka B., Lasoń, PRZEWŁOCKI R.: Time-dependent changes in the activity of opioid systems in the spinal cord of monoarthritic rats: a release and in situ hybridization study. Neuroscience 1992 46:209-216. PRZEWŁOCKI R., Hassan A.H.S., Lasoń W., Epplen C., Herz A., Stein G.: Gene expression and localization of opioid peptides in immune cells of inflamed tissue: functional role in antinociception. Neuroscience 1992 48:491-500. PRZEWŁOCKI R., Parsons K.L., Sweeney D.D., Trotter C., Netzeband J.G., Siggins G.R., Gruol D.L.: Opioid enhancement of calcium oscillations and burst events involving NMDA receptors and L-type calcium channels in cultured hippocampal neurons. J Neurosci., 1999, 19(22):9705-15. Schneider T, PRZEWŁOCKI R. Behavioral alterations in rats prenatally exposed to valproic acid: animal model of autism. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2005; 30(1):80-9. Ziolkowska B, Gieryk A, Bilecki W, Wawrzczak-Bargiela A, Wedzony K, Chocyk A, Danielson PE, Thomas EA, Hilbush BS, Sutcliffe JG, PRZEWŁOCKI R.: Regulation of α-synuclein gene expression in limbic and motor brain regions of morphine-treated mice. J. Neurosci., 2005, 25, 4996-5003. Obara I., Rodriguez Parkitna J., Korostyński M., Makuch W., Kamińska D., Przewłocka B., PRZEWŁOCKI R.: Local peripheral opioid effects and expression of opioid genes in the spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia in neuropathic and inflammatory pain. Pain, 2009 Feb;141(3):283-91. Piechota M, Korostynski M, Solecki W, Gieryk A, Slezak M, Bilecki W, Ziolkowska B, Kostrzewa E, Cymerman I, Swiech L, Jaworski J, PRZEWLOCKI R.: "The dissection of transcriptional modules regulated by various drugs of abuse in the mouse striatum.”; Genome Biology, 2010 May 4;11(5):R48. Attwood BK, Bourgognon JM, Patel S,