Developmental Movement Disorders: From Phenotypes and Trajectories to Intervention Strategies
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 296
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epilepsy; movement disorders; neurogenetics; autism
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Interests: neonatal neurology; movement disorders; neurogenetics; autism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Developmental movement disorders constitute a heterogeneous group of early-onset conditions in which motor abnormalities emerge and evolve in close interaction with neurodevelopmental, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes. Historically conceptualized as static neurological entities, these disorders are increasingly recognized as dynamic conditions shaped by developmental mechanisms, brain plasticity, and longitudinal trajectories. Recent advances in neurogenetics, neurobiology, and clinical phenotyping have highlighted substantial heterogeneity, overlap between diagnostic categories, and frequent neuropsychiatric comorbidities, with important implications for intervention.
This Special Issue aims to provide an integrated, developmentally informed perspective on pediatric movement disorders, linking clinical phenotypes and developmental trajectories to intervention strategies. Emphasis will be placed on how motor symptoms change across development and how this evolution informs tailored therapeutic approaches. The Special Issue welcomes original research, systematic and narrative reviews, and clinically grounded contributions addressing tic disorders, dystonia, functional movement disorders, infantile cerebral palsy, and other complex motor phenotypes, with particular interest in multidisciplinary and translational approaches to care.
Dr. Antonio Nicotera
Dr. Giulia Spoto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- developmental movement disorders
- pediatric neurology
- neurodevelopmental trajectories
- clinical phenotyping
- neurogenetics
- tic disorders
- dystonia
- functional movement disorders
- infantile cerebral palsy
- multidisciplinary interventions
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