Motor Skills

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Experience-dependent changes in cerebellar contributions to motor sequence learning.

Studies in experimental animals and humans have stressed the role of the cerebellum in motor skill learning. Yet, the relative importance of the cerebellar cortex and deep nuclei, as well as the nature of the dynamic functional changes occurring between ...
Julien Doyon, Allen W Song, Avi Karni, Francois Lalonde, Michelle M Adams, Leslie G Ungerleider (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 200201)
experience-dependent-changes-cerebellar-contributions-motor-sequence.asp

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Hand and gender differences in the organization of aiming in 5-year-old children.

The aim of the present study was to analyze the organization of aiming movements in right-handed children aged 5 years, depending on gender and hand used to perform the task. We first tested the hypothesis that aiming movements are predominantly ...
J Barral, B Debû (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
hand-gender-differences-organization-aiming-year-old-children.asp

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The development of the tool for optimizing written productivity (TOW-P).

Many school-aged children experience difficulties in written productivity, which result in a large number of referrals for school-based Occupational Therapists (OTs). Health care practitioners are being called upon to establish consistent practice, yet ...
Heidi Schwellnus, Julia Lockhart (Phys Occup Ther Pediatr, 2002)
development-tool-optimizing-written-productivity-tow-p.asp

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Cognition in a patient with very mild right-sided hemiparkinsonism.

Non-demented patients with Parkinsons disease (PD), especially if they are high functioning and early in the course of their disease, usually exhibit mild deficits in anterograde recall memory for verbal and non-verbal material, visuospatial reasoning, ...
William W Beatty (Neurocase, 2002)
cognition-patient-mild-right-sided-hemiparkinsonism.asp

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Development of a functional movement scale for infants.

The increasing survival rate of infants with a complicated birth and perinatal history generated the need for a test of functional motor performance with the capability of identifying children under four months of age with delayed development which could ...
Suzann K Campbell, Benjamin D Wright, J Michael Linacre (J Appl Meas, 2002)
development-functional-movement-scale-infants.asp

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Neuropsychological performance of patients following mold exposure.

This study investigated the effects of mold exposure (ME) on human cognition by analyzing neuropsychological data from patients who were exposed to mold in their homes or workplaces. Compared to normative data, ME patients were impaired (<10th ...
Juliana V Baldo, Laeeq Ahmad, Ronald Ruff (Appl Neuropsychol, 2002)
neuropsychological-performance-patients-following-mold-exposure.asp

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor paroxetine modulates motor behavior through practice. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-dose study in healthy subjects.

We hypothesized that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) could modulate motor activity in healthy subjects in a dose-dependent manner. The effects of a single dose of paroxetine were tested in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Six ...
Isabelle Loubinoux, Jérémie Pariente, Olivier Rascol, Pierre Celsis, François Chollet (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitor-paroxetine-modulates-motor.asp

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Effects of gender and athletic participation on driving capability.

This study sought to determine if spatiotemporal skills, represented by success in high level sport, transfer to driving and, if so, whether such transfer is mediated by the gender of the driver. Using an emergency-braking test, we compared the driving ...
Peter A Hancock, Mary Jo Kane, Steven Scallen, Courtney B Albinson (Int J Occup Saf Ergon, 2002)
effects-gender-athletic-participation-driving-capability.asp

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On the role of the SMA in the discrete sequence production task: a TMS study. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

Participants practiced two discrete six-key sequences for a total of 420 trials. The 1 x 6 sequence had a unique order of key presses while the 2 x 3 sequence involved repetition of a three-key segment. Both sequences showed a long interkey interval ...
Willem B Verwey, Robin Lammens, Jack van Honk (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
role-sma-discrete-sequence-production-task-tms-study-transcranial.asp

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Motor control and cerebral hemispheric specialization in highly qualified judo wrestlers.

With the purpose of investigating motor and cognitive lateralization profiles associated with long-term motor training, we investigated differences in hemispheric specialization between proficient judo sportsmen and controls through the assessment of a ...
Maxim Mikheev, Christine Mohr, Sergei Afanasiev, Theodor Landis, Gregor Thut (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
motor-control-cerebral-hemispheric-specialization-highly-qualified.asp