American Journal of Pediatrics

Special Issue

Motor Skills, Cognition and Metabolic Health in Children and Adolescents

  • Submission Deadline: 22 December 2025
  • Status: Open for Submission
  • Lead Guest Editor: Helder Favio Ñahui Rojas
About This Special Issue
The growing trend towards sedentary behaviors, physical inactivity, this problem has generated concern in the scientific community in recent years. The data reveal an increase in these behaviors, which has serious consequences for health, as well as motor, cognitive, emotional and/or conative development in this population. This problem needs to be addressed through practical research that promotes a healthy future for future generations. This special issue focuses on describing up-to-date data on sedentary lifestyle and excess weight and their relationship or effect on developmental problems, as well as on exercise interventions to improve comprehensive health and child well-being, combat inactivity and promote active lifestyles. Both review and original research articles are invited to this special issue.
The main objective of this special issue is to contribute with up-to-date information on infants, children and young people with problems related to physical, cognitive, conative and emotional health. We invite contributions that explore child and adolescent populations, with particular interest in motor deficit, metabolic problems, sedentary lifestyle and excess weight, as well as cognitive deficit, emotional and/or conative problems related to lack of physical activity, obesity or motor development.
Types of articles welcome: Original research articles, review articles, case studies, etc.
Through this special issue, our objective is to contribute to scientific knowledge with up-to-date information on metabolic problems, excess weight and sedentary lifestyle and their repercussions on the integral development of child and adolescent populations. We welcome researchers from diverse disciplines to bring interdisciplinary perspectives. Their contributions will play a crucial role in advancing knowledge in this field.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  1. Metabolic problems and sedentary lifestyle in child and adolescent populations
  2. Excess weight and cognitive functions
  3. Excess weight and emotional functions
  4. Excess weight and conative functions
  5. High body mass index
  6. Type II diabetes mellitus in sedentary children
  7. Sedentary lifestyle and cognitive deficit
  8. Sedentary lifestyle and emotional problems
Lead Guest Editor
  • Helder Favio Ñahui Rojas

    Academic Department of Physical Education, Federico Villareal National University, File, Peru

Guest Editors
  • Sigifredo Constancio Avilés Oré

    Academic Department of Physical Education, Federico Villareal National University, File, Peru

  • Edison Tarazona Martinez

    Academic Department of Physical Education, Federico Villareal National University, File, Peru

  • Mariela Serpa Tower

    Academic Department of Physical Education and Sports, Enrique Guzmán y Valle National University, File, Peru

  • Cesar David Veliz Manrique

    School of Physiological Sciences, Federico Villareal National University, File, Peru

  • Heydel Jaramillo Laguna

    Academic Department of Physical Education, Federico Villareal National University, File, Peru

  • Eliana Ethel Llanos Torres

    Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, File, Peru

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