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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 Facilities: The Architecture of the Psychiatric Milieu

Guest Edited by Jan Golembiewski Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Australia

The editorial team of Facilities are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to an exploration of evidence-based approaches to establish the most appropriate architecture for the psychiatric milieu.

Facilities for psychiatric care have a tradition of standardization in design and treatment dating back to the moral treatment paradigm of the 1850’s. As normative approaches to psychiatric care have change, so too do the facilities used to house, treat and manage patients. The shift to evidence based design (EBD) in hospital architecture means that the psychiatric milieu must follow suit.

The search for evidence to model psychiatric facilities is an important endeavour. But psychiatric illness isn’t like orthopaedics or cardiology, where the needs and satisfaction of staff and patients can be relatively easy to assess and evidence can be easily measured. Mental illnesses are a heterogeneous group of disorders, and there is a risk in categorising all psychiatric illnesses together and treating them alike. Environmental influences that exacerbate one condition frequently assist with another. As such, Facilities is soliciting approaches that are specific to:

geriatric psychiatry
mood disorders
the non-affective psychotic spectrum
psychiatric emergencies
substance-related disorders
facilities for forensic psychiatry

This list is not exhaustive and interested authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editor with alternative proposals. Please kindly take note of the following requirements if you wish to have your paper considered for this Special Issue:

The content of the paper must conform to the terms of reference of Facilities
All papers submitted will be subject to the normal double blind refereeing process undertaken by the journal
Submitted papers must not be under review by any other journal
The closing date for submissions is: 1st June 2012

Submissions to Facilities are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, Emerald's online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/f. Full information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the Emerald ScholarOne Manuscripts Support Centre: http://msc.emeraldinsight.com

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)