Neurology calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Neuroethics: Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Submission deadline: November 30, 2013

Call for Manuscripts for a Special Issue of the Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy: Motor Learning in Neurorehabilitation

The Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy (JNPT) is reviewing manuscripts for a special issue on Motor Learning in Neurorehabilitation. Over the past 30 years, we have witnessed an expansion of basic and clinical research in motor learning that has furthered our understanding of the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying learning in healthy and clinical populations.  This special issue will feature recent advances in the field and how they may be applied to neurorehabilitation.

Potential topics may include but are not limited to:

Reframing motor learning theories in the 21st century

Motivation, expectation, and self-efficacy influences on motor learning

Neural correlates and mechanisms of different forms of motor learning

Innovative approaches to enhancing motor learning in neurologic rehabilitation

Emerging interventions derived from new understandings of brain function (e.g. imagery, action observation)

Impact of neurologic pathology on motor learning capacity

Please note this is a competitive call for papers. JNPT receives more submissions than can be published and therefore it will likely not be possible to publish all manuscripts submitted in response to this call. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Special Issue Editors: Drs. Catherine Lang (langc@wustl.edu), Beth Fisher (bfisher@usc.edu) and Susanne Morton (susanne-morton@uiowa.edu) regarding their submission. First drafts will be due on September 1, 2013 with a target JNPT publication date of April 1, 2014.

JNPT and its web site offers fully searchable archives and:

Indexed by PubMed

Shortened time to press with individual articles Published ahead of Print and full issues published to the web site one to two weeks ahead of the mail date

Access via Ovid Technologies for libraries and other institutions to expand the global reach JNPT, offering an enhanced Web presence in Europe, Asia, and around the world

Published by Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a leading international publisher of professional health information resources

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Neurocomputing: Advanced Computing for Image-Guided Intervention

In the past years, the rapidly growing area of image-guided intervention has dramatically changed the way how a typical surgery is carried out in an operation room. We have witnessed that traditional open surgery is gradually replaced by minimally invasive or non-invasive procedures. In comparison with conventional open surgeries, this new type of procedures has advantages of shorter patient recovery times, greater patient comfort, and lower risk of complications.

Imaging is the key to the image-guided intervention, involving pre-operative planning, intra-operative execution, post-operative assessment and verification. It becomes essential to support both diagnosis and therapy. To achieve successful interventions, usually multi-disciplinary knowledge and techniques are required such as physics, chemistry, electronics, mechatronics, software, and signal/image processing. Especially, signal/image processing and computing plays an increasingly important role, enabling the presentation of reliable and accurate information to the physician. In the past twenty years, this field has been greatly expanded from the developments of low-level processing techniques, such as signal filtering and enhancement, to the medium-level image registration and fusion, segmentation and motion tracking, further to the inventions of high-level signal/image interpretation or classification techniques. Examples include tissue classification/characterization from different imaging modalities. Such advanced techniques assist the physician to understand better the information and offers valuable inputs for the decision making.  At the same time, we have observed a trend in emerging imaging technologies in new clinical applications, such as embedded imaging sensors within in-body catheters, which offers new perspectives in the whole processing of navigation, tracking and visualization.

This special issue aims at capturing the latest advances of the research community working on image-guided intervention. We are soliciting original contributions and encouraging the work for (1) novel fundamental techniques, and (2) showcasing robust systems with emerging applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Advanced signal/image processing algorithms for navigation, tracking and visualization

New algorithm design for real-time imaging and information extraction

Image registration & fusion from multiple imaging sources and/or images from different stages during the intervention

Model-based image segmentation, 3D modeling and visualization

Signal/image processing in new clinical applications

Signal/image processing with emerging imaging modalities

Signal/image transformation or feature extraction for improved clinical understanding.

Database support for algorithm validation and/or training

Signal/image classification and interpretation, e.g. based on machine learning or pattern classification

Emerging applications using medical imaging techniques

Important Dates:

Submission of full papers 31. May, 2013
Notification to authors 15. Oct, 2013

Submission of Manuscripts

Prospective authors should visit http://www.elsevier.com/journals/neurocomputing/0925-2312/guide-for-authors for information on paper submission. Authors must submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission at: http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/.

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly included into the special issue, it is important that authors select the acronym "ACIGI" of this special issue when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.

Guest Editors:

Dr. Fei Zuo
Philips Research
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
fei.zuo@philips.com

Dr. Jungong Han
Civolution Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
jungonghan77@gmail.com

Prof. Pingkun Yan
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xi’an, China
pingkun@ieee.org

Dr. Hans van Assen
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
h.c.v.assen@tue.nl

Dr. Kenji Suzuki
The University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
suzuki@uchicago.edu

Call for Papers: The Neurologist

The Neurologist welcomes submission of brief historical review articles focusing on topics of interest to practicing neurologists.

Please see our Instructions for Authors for submission guidelines.http://edmgr.ovid.com/nrl/accounts/ifauth.htm

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Brain Research: RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease

Special Issue Call for Papers Deadline: 31 August 2013

Brain Research will be publishing a Special Issue on “RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease" for post-conference distribution to each delegate registered for the 8th Brain Research Conference on the same topic - a satellite meeting to the 2013 Society for Neuroscience, organized this year by Fen-Biao Gao and Paul Taylor.

In addition to the Review and Original Articles by invited speakers, we are inviting you to submit a relevant research paper on RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease for consideration. Papers will be subject to normal peer review and must comply with the Guide for Authors.

To submit a paper to the “RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease” Special Issue, please go to http://ees.elsevier.com/bres and click on "Submit new manuscript". It is important that authors select “Special Issue: RNA Metabolism 2013” as the Article Type. Manuscripts should be submitted by 31 August 2013.

Guest editors: Fen-Biao Gao & J. Paul Taylor

Call for Papers for Postgraduate Medicine: Clinical Focus--Neurological Disorders and Stroke Management

Submission deadline: Fri, 08/23/2013 (All day)

Fast-Track deadline: Mon, 09/30/2013 (All day)