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Mission & scope

Dystonia aims to be the leading journal in the field by publishing open access premier research on all basic, clinical and translational aspects of the dystonias. Contributions that open new research avenues and address longstanding questions are particularly encouraged. The journal will consider studies involving clinical or experimental human research, animal models, computational or theoretical neuroscience, and in vitro approaches. Case reports will be considered if rigorous studies of individual patients enhance the overall understanding of dystonia pathophysiology or its treatment. Methods papers focusing on a novel approach that adds significant conceptual knowledge to experimental techniques will be encouraged.

Editorial Board and Advisory Board

Dystonia’s Advisory Board and Editorial Board provides strategic and professional advice to the Chief Editors. The journal recognises the following Editorial Board and Advisory Board members for their continuous guidance and support of the journal:

Associate Editors

Alfonso Fasano, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cecile Gallea, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Mark S. LeDoux, Veracity Neuroscience LLC, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Gant Luxton, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States

Sanjay Pandey, Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Amrita Hospitals, Faridabad, India

Daniela Popa, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris, France

Kristina Simonyan, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Advisory Board

Alberto Albanese, Department of Neurology, Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milano, Italy

Xandra Breakefield, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cynthia Comella, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mahlon DeLong, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Stanley Fahn, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States

Mark Hallett, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Joseph Jankovic, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States

H. A. Jinnah, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Kamran Khodakhah, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States

Anthony Lang, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joel Perlmutter, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

David Standaert, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Jan Teller, Scientific Advisors International, Niemcz, Poland and Dystonia Medical Research Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Marie Vidailhet, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France

Jerrold Vitek, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Editorial Board

D. Cristopher Bragg, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dirk Dressler, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Stewart Factor, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Steven Frucht, New York University, New York, New York, United States

Ellen Hess, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Yuqing Li, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Jonathan Mink, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States

Michael Okun, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Laurie Ozelius, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Rekha Patel, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Untied States

Antonio Pisani, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Traian Popa, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Rachel Saunders-Pullman, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States

Christian Schlieker, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Philip Starr, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States

Veronique Van der Horst, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Hari K. Yalamanchili, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States

Journal Information

  • Short name

    Dystonia

  • Abbreviation

    dyst

  • Electronic ISSN

    2813-2106

  • Indexed in

    1Science, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), Chinese Academy of Sciences GoOA, CNKI Scholar, CrossRef, DeepGreen, Dimensions, DOAJ, EBSCO, Figshare, Google Scholar, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Jisc, MyScienceWork, OpenAIRE, Scite, Semantic Scholar

Open access statement

Open access logo

Dystonia provides online free gold open access to the journal and all of its research publications.

Open Access funder and institutional mandates: Dystonia is fully compliant with open access mandates, by publishing its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution licence  (CC-BY). Funder mandates such as those by the Wellcome Trust (UK), National Institutes of Health (USA) and the Australian Research Council (Australia) are fully compatible with publishing in Dystonia. Authors retain copyright of their work and can deposit their publication in any repository. The work can be freely shared and adapted provided that appropriate credit is given and any changes specified.

If the research contained in your published Dystonia article was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), another PMC designated funder, or a member of the Europe PMC funder group, you may self-deposit the article into PubMed Central after publication. Please see PubMed Central to determine your eligibility and for more information on how to begin this process.

Quality

Each Dystonia article strives for the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors, editors and reviewers. Dystonia encourages authors to consult the instructions for authors guidelines prior to submission.

Contact

Editorial Office

Avenue du Tribunal Fédéral 34

CH – 1005 Lausanne

Switzerland

For all queries regarding manuscripts in review, potential conflicts of interest, special issues, editorial board applications and any other questions, please contact dystonia.office@FrontiersPartnerships.org

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