Brain Disorders calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Neuropsychology: Cognitive Function in Parkinson’s Disease

In the last 10-20 years, there has been a growing body of literature relating to the cognitive impairments associated with Parkinson’s disease, including core cognitive processes such as recognition memory and attention, but more recently aspects of cognition such as prospective memory, decision-making and emotion recognition have also been explored. This research has moved beyond accounts of cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s, with implications for clinical management and real-life functioning for people with Parkinson’s. In addition to these important aspects, understanding the cognitive effects of Parkinson’s can illuminate normal function.

This special issue will comprise both reviews and empirical papers and cover a range of different cognitive processes in Parkinson’s including (but not limited to) reward, decision-making, memory, inhibition, hallucinations and action processing. Bringing together these topics and different approaches to the question of cognition in Parkinson’s will make for a thought-provoking and cutting edge special issue, which will be of interest to both basic scientists and clinicians.

Please send an email expression of interest to jnp@wiley.com, giving a brief outline of your proposed article prior to submission to the special issue. The closing date for submissions will be 30th June 2012.

Call for Submissions: Neurology Clinical Practice

We are pleased to report that a separate online submission and review site for Neurology: Clinical Practice is now up and running (http://submit.cp.neurology.org). We eagerly encourage your contributions for consideration. Manuscripts submitted to this journal undergo the same thorough peer review as Neurology submissions. Please consult our Information for Authors (http://cp.neurology.org/site/misc/authCP.xhtml) for form, style, and submission requirements.

We have established some initial manuscript categories (below) and will expand these as needed. We welcome articles that are not strictly written to meet the specifications of the genres outlined below. All submissions should be geared directly to the practitioner (typically not primary research articles, but could be). Please include a discussion of issues that might be internationally pertinent, e.g., differences in other countries that might affect access and financial considerations, in addition to the medical issues, if they are relevant to the overall content of the article.

Clinical and Ethical Challenges

These articles explore problems faced by the practicing neurologist caring for a complex patient or addressing a challenging clinical problem or ethical dilemma.

Eye on Practice

These articles highlight issues related to office function, such as incorporation of electronic medical records, as well as discussions of health policy issues with special emphasis on changes in health care policy as they affect neurologists.

New Drugs and Devices

These articles apprise the practicing neurologist about new drugs and devices that will affect how they manage their patients' care.

Five New Things

These articles update practicing neurologists on emerging issues in various important fields on topics such as Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, gliomas, and stroke.

Cases

Utilizing 2 different formats, short (an interesting image and brief discussion) and long (a full case with longer discussion), these submissions are interesting and timely cases with important teaching points.

Expert Discussion

These articles are opinion pieces solidly grounded in clinical care and the evidence base (or, if not, identified as such). They are meant to inform the reader, stimulate thought, and prompt discussion about clinical care. These often would be in the form of pro vs con discussions.

Call for Papers for a Special Section of Behavioral Neuroscience on Parkinson's Disease

Motor and Non-Motor Dysfunctions in Parkinson's Disease: Advances and Controversies

Guest Editor: Alice Cronin-Golomb

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012

Behavioral Neuroscience is seeking papers for a special section highlighting recent progress in our understanding of the motor and non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease (PD) and its subtypes.

PD is characterized by the cardinal motor symptoms of tremor, rigidity, akinesia or bradykinesia, and impairments of posture, gait, and balance, as well as less ubiquitous but nevertheless disabling motor abnormalities such as dyskinesias. The non-motor symptoms of PD have been receiving increased attention in recent years in acknowledgment of their significant impact on the quality of life of patients with this disorder. Examples of these symptoms include disturbances of cognition, sensation and perception, mood, motivation, behavioral inhibition, sleep, and autonomic function.

Much remains to be learned about the etiology, clinical presentation, course, treatment, and neurological substrates of these motor and non-motor symptoms. One approach to their investigation is consideration of PD subtypes. Subtypes that are currently being studied include side of disease onset or side of current symptom predominance, type of initial motor symptom (e.g., tremor, rigidity, disturbances of posture and gait), predominant cognitive profile (frontal-type, parietal-type, with or without dementia), gender, and presence or absence of specific genes (e.g., parkin, LRRK2, COMT, MAPT).

The special section will focus primarily on the relation of motor and non-motor symptoms of PD to disease subtypes. This section will provide an international forum for researchers to report their most recent findings in the area.

Topics to be covered may include, but are not limited to:

Motor symptoms, including tremor, rigidity, akinesia or bradykinesia, disturbances of posture, gait, and balance, dyskinesias
Cognition, including dementia as well as cognitive function in the absence of dementia
Sensation
Perception, from lower-level to higher-level processes, including hallucinations
Depression, anxiety, apathy, and other aspects of mood and motivation
Behavioral inhibition, including impulse control disorders
Sleep, including sleep quality and REM behavior disorder
Autonomic function
Prodromal appearance of non-motor symptoms
Pathological substrates
Relation to neurotransmitters or sex hormones

Manuscripts should be submitted as usual through the Behavioral Neuroscience Manuscript Submission Portal.

The cover letter should indicate that the authors wish the manuscript to be considered for publication in the special section on Parkinson's Disease. Reviewer suggestions are strongly encouraged.

Manuscripts must be received by June 1, 2012.

Inquiries can be directed to the Guest Editor, Alice Cronin-Golomb.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Cognitive Training

Guest Editors: Daniel Pine & Yair Bar-Haim

Great excitement has emerged about the potential for neuroscience to enhances the lives of children. This excitement also is tinged with some level of concern about the vulnerable state of the immature brain. With the rapid changes in information technology and the range of media exposures available to children, particular interest has focused on the potential for media exposure to influence children. Research on cognitive training holds the hope of enhancing understandings in all of these areas. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience hopes to focus this interest through a Special Issue devoted to these themes.

Specifically, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience announces a forthcoming Special Issue focused on the interface among neuroscience, development, and cognitive training research. We are seeking papers focused on the use of cognitive modification techniques, designed to alter information-processing functions, focused specifically on developmental themes. The journal is interested in papers focused on the clinical utility of such techniques. Thus, studies in various developmental conditions would be of interest. This includes attention-related, learning, and emotional problems. Moreover, studies are sought that examine the manner in which cognitive training techniques influence measures of brain function, derived from imaging. Finally, the journal also is interested in studies focused on such techniques, applied to animal models. We anticipate receiving both empirical and review papers. We have particular interest in original research using experimental designs.

The deadline for receiving these papers is July 1, 2012, with a plan for publication in early 2013. To submit to the Special Issue visit http://ees.elsevier.com/dcn/ and select the Special Issue on Training when submitting your paper.

Call for Papers on the Topic of ADHD, Depression, Pain, and Neurological Disorders for Postgraduate Medicine

Submission deadline
Thu, 07/05/2012 (All day)

Fast-Track deadline
Wed, 08/15/2012 (All day)
 

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Translational Stroke Research: Endothelial Dysfunction in Cerebrovascular Disease

Guest editor: Nabil Alkayed (The Ohio State University)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 1, 2012

The cerebrovascular endothelium plays an important role in determining risk and outcome from cerebrovascular disease, including stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury. The special issue will review novel mechanisms, methodology and therapeutic strategies targeting brain vascular endothelium.

Translational Stroke Research covers basic, translational, and clinical studies. The Journal emphasizes novel approaches in order to help translate scientific discoveries from basic stroke research into the development of new strategies for prevention, assessment, treatment, and repair after stroke and other forms of neurotrauma.

Translational Stroke Research focuses on translational research and is relevant to both basic scientists and physicians, including but not restricted to neuroscientists, vascular biologists, neurologists, neuroimagers, and neurosurgeons. The Journal provides an interactive forum for the dissemination of original research articles, review articles, research reports, letters, comments, and research protocols, in stroke and stroke related areas. Its distinguished editorial board is made up of leading stroke researchers and physicians from North America, Europe, and Asia.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Translational Stroke Research: the Peripheral Immune Response in Acute Injuries of the CNS

Guest editor: Keith Pennypacker (University of South Florida)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 1, 2012

This issue will focus on the role that the peripheral immune system plays in delayed cellular death after injury to the CNS. Understanding these cellular and humeral responses will permit targeting specific signaling pathways for pharmaceutical intervention to reduce cellular degeneration without augmenting the post-injury immune suppression.

Translational Stroke Research covers basic, translational, and clinical studies. The Journal emphasizes novel approaches in order to help translate scientific discoveries from basic stroke research into the development of new strategies for prevention, assessment, treatment, and repair after stroke and other forms of neurotrauma.

Translational Stroke Research focuses on translational research and is relevant to both basic scientists and physicians, including but not restricted to neuroscientists, vascular biologists, neurologists, neuroimagers, and neurosurgeons. The Journal provides an interactive forum for the dissemination of original research articles, review articles, research reports, letters, comments, and research protocols, in stroke and stroke related areas. Its distinguished editorial board is made up of leading stroke researchers and physicians from North America, Europe, and Asia.