Motor Skills

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Effects of musical training on speech-induced modulation in corticospinal excitability.

We investigated the effect of previous musical training on lateralization of language as indexed by the effects of reading aloud on the modulation of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) induced in the first dorsal interosseus muscles (FDI) by transcranial ...
Kuang-Lin Lin, Masahito Kobayashi, Alvaro Pascual-Leone (Neuroreport, 200205)
effects-musical-training-speech-induced-modulation-corticospinal.asp

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EMG discharge patterns during human grip movement are task-dependent and not modulated by muscle contraction modes: a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study.

Our previous study revealed that, during tonic muscle contraction, remarkable functional differences among intrinsic and extrinsic muscles were observed during two different grip movements, i.e., precision and power grips. To verify whether this evidence ...
J G Anson, Y Hasegawa, T Kasai, M L Latash, S Yahagi (Brain Res, 200205)
emg-discharge-patterns-human-grip-movement-task-dependent-not.asp

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Is there a link between writing ability, drawing aptitude and manual skills of dental students?

In France, students have to choose between medical or dental courses, according to their rank, after a competitive examination at the end of their first year of study. Intellectual ability is evaluated, while manual competence is not, and this is a ...
Dominique Gillet, André Quinton, Alain Jeannel (Eur J Dent Educ, 200205)
link-writing-ability-drawing-aptitude-manual-skills-dental-students.asp

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Motor performance and behaviour in preterm and full-term 3-year-old children.

AIM: To compare the motor performance and behaviour at 3 years of age of very preterm, moderately preterm and full-term children (n = 221), who needed neonatal intensive care (NIC), and of 72 neonatally healthy full-term children (reference group). ...
E Hemgren, K Persson (Child Care Health Dev, 200205)
motor-performance-behaviour-preterm-full-term-year-old-children.asp

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Change in physical performance over time in older women: the Womens Health and Aging Study.

BACKGROUND: Although lower and upper extremity performance measures are widely used and represent validated physical function measures in older adults, there is limited information regarding the magnitude of changes in these measures over time. This ...
Graziano Onder, Brenda W J H Penninx, Pablo Lapuerta, Linda P Fried, Glenn V Ostir, Jack M Guralnik, Marco Pahor (J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 200205)
change-physical-performance-over-time-older-women-women-s-health.asp

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Is early occupational therapy in extremely preterm infants of benefit in the long run?

A total of 126 infants with extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <1000 g) were enrolled in a prospective case-control study in order to examine the effect of occupational therapy based on sensory integration (SI) and neurodevelopmental therapy (NDT) on ...
Teija Salokorpi, Terttu Rautio, Eero Kajantie, Lennart Von Wendt (Pediatr Rehabil, 200204-06)
early-occupational-therapy-extremely-preterm-infants-benefit-long-run.asp

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Effects of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation on the initiation of voluntary movement and motor evoked potentials in upper limb muscles.

To better understand the mechanisms behind proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), an important method in motor rehabilitation, we investigated the effects of assuming a PNF posture relative to a neutral posture on the initiation of voluntary ...
Kuniyoshi Shimura, Tatsuya Kasai (Hum Mov Sci, 200204)
effects-proprioceptive-neuromuscular-facilitation-initiation.asp

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Modification of a functional motor task by non-consciously perceived sensory stimuli.

In recent years it has been suggested that processing of visual information is divided between a ventral stream, responsible for object recognition and conscious processing of object properties, and a dorsal stream mediating automatic integration of ...
Stuart Fellows, Ruth Tabaza, Manfred Heumann, Werner Klotz, Odmar Neumann, Michael Schwarz, Johannes Noth, Rudolf Töpper (Neuroreport, 200204)
modification-functional-motor-task-non-consciously-perceived-sensory.asp

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Predictability of hand skill and cognitive abilities from craniofacial width in right- and left-handed men and women: relation of skeletal structure to cerebral function.

Recently, a family of homeobox genes involved in brain and craniofacial development was identified. In light of this genetic background, we hypothesized that some functional characteristics of human brain (hand skill, cognition) may be linked to some ...
Ertunc Dayi, Metin Gungormus, Mukadder Okuyan, Uner Tan (Int J Neurosci, 200204)
predictability-hand-skill-cognitive-abilities-craniofacial-width.asp

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Individualized outcome measures: a review of the literature.

The client-centred nature of occupational therapy acknowledges the individual as the central element of treatment. This philosophy, however, challenges the therapist to choose an outcome measure that is capable of reflecting this individualized ...
Catherine Donnelly, Anne Carswell (Can J Occup Ther, 200204)
individualized-outcome-measures-review-literature.asp