Motor Skills

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Effects of levodopa on upper limb mobility and gait in Parkinsons disease.

BACKGROUND: Most clinicians rely on clinical scales such as the unified Parkinsons disease rating scale (UDPRS) for evaluating parkinsonian patients and assessing their response to levodopa. Gait analysis is not commonly used, probably because of the ...
M Vokaer, N Abou Azar, D Zegers de Beyl (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200309)
effects-levodopa-upper-limb-mobility-gait-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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A developmental approach AIDS motor learning.

Bernstein (1967) suggested that people attempting to learn to perform a difficult motor task try to ameliorate the degrees-of-freedom problem through the use of a developmental progression. Early in training, people maintain a subset of their control ...
Volodymyr Ivanchenko, Robert A Jacobs (Neural Comput, 200309)
developmental-approach-aids-motor-learning.asp

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The effect of musical training on music processing: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in humans.

Previous studies have demonstrated changes in neuronal activity in trained musicians relative to controls while performing various music processing tasks. In this study the neural correlates of the effect of music training on two aspects of music ...
Vincent J Schmithorst, Scott K Holland (Neurosci Lett, 200309)
effect-musical-training-music-processing-functional-magnetic.asp

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Braking impulse and muscle activation during unplanned gait termination in human subjects with parkinsonism.

Persons with parkinsonism (PD) are known to have difficulty with both rapid force production and declination, and may not be able to adjust force levels during bimanual tasks in the upper extremity. We proposed that these deficits might underlie the ...
Mark D Bishop, Denis Brunt, Carl Kukulka, Mark D Tillman, Neeti Pathare (Neurosci Lett, 200309)
braking-impulse-muscle-activation-unplanned-gait-termination-human.asp

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Everyday functioning in young children with cerebral palsy: functional skills, caregiver assistance, and modifications of the environment.

Everyday functioning is described in 95 children with cerebral palsy (CP; 55 males and 40 females; mean age 58 months, SD 18 months, range 25 to 87 months) using the three scales of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI): Functional ...
Sigrid Ostensjø, Eva Brogren Carlberg, Nina K Vøllestad (Dev Med Child Neurol, 200309)
everyday-functioning-young-children-cerebral-palsy-functional-skills.asp

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Therapeutic effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on motor function in Parkinsons disease patients.

Cortical excitability of the primary motor cortex is altered in patients with Parkinsons disease (PD). Therefore, modulation of cortical excitability by high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the motor cortex might result ...
E M Khedr, H M Farweez, H Islam (Eur J Neurol, 200309)
therapeutic-effect-repetitive-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-motor.asp

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Entacapone is beneficial in both fluctuating and non-fluctuating patients with Parkinsons disease: a randomised, placebo controlled, double blind, six month study.

OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of entacapone, a specific peripherally acting catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor used in combination with levodopa treatment, in cases of Parkinsons disease with both fluctuating and non-fluctuating response to ...
D J Brooks, H Sagar, (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 200308)
entacapone-beneficial-fluctuating-non-fluctuating-patients-parkinson.asp

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Task-specific internal models for kinematic transformations.

Numerous studies of motor learning have focused on how people adapt their reaching movements to novel dynamic and visuomotor perturbations that alter the actual or visually perceived motion of the hand. An important finding from this work is that ...
Christine Tong, J Randall Flanagan (J Neurophysiol, 200308)
task-specific-internal-models-kinematic-transformations.asp

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Neuromotor noise limits motor performance, but not motor adaptation, in children.

Children do not typically appear to move with the same skill and dexterity as adults, although they can still improve their motor performance in specific tasks with practice. One possible explanation is that their motor performance is limited by an ...
Craig D Takahashi, Dan Nemet, Christie M Rose-Gottron, Jennifer K Larson, Dan M Cooper, David J Reinkensmeyer (J Neurophysiol, 200308)
neuromotor-noise-limits-motor-performance-not-motor-adaptation.asp

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Effects of focus of attention depend on golfers skill.

In this study, we examined the influence of internal and external attention instructions on the performance of a pitch shot by golfers who were either highly skilled (mean handicap = 4) or low skilled (mean handicap = 26). Ten golfers in each skill group ...
Natalie Perkins-Ceccato, Steve R Passmore, Timothy D Lee (J Sports Sci, 200308)
effects-focus-attention-depend-golfers-skill.asp