Motor 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 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 Advances in School Mental Health Promotion: Applications of Pediatric Psychology in the School-Based Setting

Advances in School Mental Health Promotion will publish a special issue on applications of pediatric psychology in the school-based setting. This special issue will be edited by Dr. Brian P. Daly, Department of Psychology, Drexel University. This issue will seek to delineate the provision of school-based mental health services for educational, emotional, and behavioral issues in children with chronic illness.

Prevalence data indicate that approximately 15% to 20% of school-age children and adolescents suffer from a health-related disorder (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008), with the incidence rate of chronic illness in children continuing to rise. A significant number of these children will experience negative consequences from their disorder resulting in decrements to school functioning and performance (Taras & Potts-Datema, 2005). In addition, children with chronic illness are at significantly greater risk for emotional, social, and behavioral issues relative to their healthy peers (Martinez & Erickan, 2009). While these issues are significantly impairing for children, many school-based personnel report receiving inadequate training to work with youth with chronic illness (Barraclough & Machek, 2010; Hamlet, Gergar, & Schaefer, 2011), resulting in serious concerns about their preparation to provide appropriate services for this unique population (Kaffenberger, 2006).

The aim of this special issue is to highlight approaches to the assessment and treatment of cognitive, learning, emotional, and behavioral issues among children with chronic illness in the school setting. We anticipate that studies or review papers will focus on a range of topics, including, but not limited to: school-based intervention or prevention programs that are specifically designed for children with health-related disorders; strategies for training and consulting with teachers to work with students with chronic illness; health promotion with pediatric populations in the school setting; school reintegration or school reentry programs for children with chronic illness; and, legal and ethical issues for children with chronic illness in the school setting.

Authors are encouraged to focus on those health-related disorders that are prevalent and likely to be encountered in the school setting including, but not limited to, asthma, cancer, cerebral palsy, congenital heart problems, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, obesity, sickle cell anemia, spina bifida, and traumatic brain injury. We expect manuscripts to highlight science-based practice recommendations of relevance to mental health practitioners and/or policy makers. We are also interested in reviewing empirical manuscripts that report findings from smaller sample studies in addition to pilot or feasibility interventions. We very much welcome manuscripts from graduate students and fellows under faculty mentorship.

Papers must be double-spaced and should generally follow APA style (Sixth ed.) (please refer to http://www.schoolmentalhealth.co.uk/submiss.htm for more specific details on article submissions). Manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Papers that are not appropriate for inclusion in the special issue may be rerouted (with the authors’ knowledge and consent) for consideration for publication in ASMHP as regular papers.

For more information, please contact the Special Issue Guest Editor Brian P. Daly at brian.daly@drexel.edu. The deadline for manuscript submission is July 1, 2012. Submissions should be sent to: brian.daly@drexel.edu.