Aims and scope

The journal Investigación en Discapacidad invites the interested scientific community that is involved in areas related with the study of the pathological basis, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disability, as well as all those fields related to disabling diseases, to submit their scientific manuscripts.

The journal publishes three regular issues per year and one supplemental issue, and is intended to disseminate innovative and relevant articles from the viewpoint of basic, clinical, technological, sociomedical research, and evidence synthesis.

Investigación en Discapacidad publishes peer-reviewed biomedical and clinical reports on trends and important developments in the study of the disabilities. The journal strives to provide its readers with a variety of innovative and relevant topics including: description of the molecular basis of various disabling pathologies through experimental models, methods diagnosis and population studies, genetic and genomic studies, functional evaluation and intervention studies, clinical studies in various groups of patients, methodology in physical medicine, orthopedics and rehabilitation, epidemiological studies in disabling conditions, technological and computational methods in the development of areas of study in mechatronics and biomedical engineering, as well as reports on vocational and sociomedical aspects of rehabilitation.

This international journal provides researchers and physicians with authoritative information on the therapeutic use of physical, behavioral and pharmaceutical agents to provide comprehensive care for people with chronic diseases and disabilities.