Recent Advances in the Treatments in Movement Disorders
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 3002
Special Issue Editors
Interests: investigating new DBS surgical and programming techniques in movement disorders; understanding the neurophysiological brain changes observed in these conditions; the use of neuromodulation for the treatment of uncommon neurological diseases
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Interests: invasive and non-invasive brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, tremor, and dystonia; clinical study of deep brain stimulation programming in movement disorders
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions of articles to this Special Issue of the journal of Behavioral Sciences, which is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of behavioral sciences. We will collect state-of-the-art articles discussing new treatment modalities in patients with movement disorders. Contributions on the following themes are welcome:
- Innovative, novel deep brain stimulatio,n and neuromodulation techniques
- Improvements in diagnosis and novel treatment modalities in movement disorders.
- Challenges and future directions in the treatment of neurodegenerative conditions.
- Wearable technologies in movement disorders
We hereby invite papers that present original research on the topics above and hope to receive many high-quality submissions. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the journal or manuscript submission.
Submission deadline: 30 September 2021
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora
Prof. Dr. Wei Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Deep brain stimulation
- Movement disorders
- Parkinson’s disease
- Essential tremor
- Dystonia
- Ataxia
- Tourrettes syndrome
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