Studying eye movements can provide insight into how the normal brain works, how diseases affect eye movements, and how eye movement abnormalities can be used to study diseases and/or their treatments. In this review, we concentrate on recent studies looking at abnormalities of saccades in various diseases.Various saccadic abnormalities have been found ...
Willard, Anna, Lueck, Christian
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Striatal cholinergic interneurons generate beta and gamma oscillations in the corticostriatal circuit and produce motor deficits [PDF]
Cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic (CBT) neural circuits are critical modulators of cognitive and motor function. When compromised, these circuits contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD).
Bucklin, Mark +5 more
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Congenital oro-motor disorders [PDF]
Children with congenital oro-motor disorders (COMD) are not numerous. However, as a group, they merit special consideration as management of diseases leading to COMD is complex, owing to their protracted and varying course, the diverse areas of health care involved, and the significant amount of resources their treatment requires.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Movement Disorders. A Review [PDF]
In addition to motor symptoms, patients with movement disorders often complain of psychiatric disturbances, including mood, anxiety, and impulse-control disorders and psychosis.
Berardelli, Alfredo +5 more
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Assessment of motor recovery and decline [PDF]
Assessment of motor disorders forms an important ingredient of neurology, rehabilitation medicine and orthopaedics. Until now, however, many of the employed assessment tools are derived from empirical knowledge.
Mulder, T., Zijlstra, W.
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Sleep disorders and starting time to school impair balance in 5-year-old children [PDF]
Objective: To verify if sleep disorders and differents starting time to school have impaired motor skills in 5-year-old children.Method: Cross-sectional design consisting of 132 children with sleep disorders and 136 normal controls of the public school ...
Carvalho, Luciane Bizari Coin de +3 more
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Influence of a specific aquatic program on social and gross motor skills in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Three case reports [PDF]
Swimming pool activities revealed to be efficacious to train psychomotor skills and increase adaptive behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).
Agro G. +4 more
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Evolution of the human fear-circuitry and acute sociogenic pseudoneurological symptoms: The Neolithic balanced-polymorphism hypothesis [PDF]
In light of the increasing threat of large-scale massacres such as terrorism against non-combatants (civilians), more attention is warranted not only to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also to acute sociogenic pseudoneurological ("conversion ...
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan +3 more
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ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra +3 more
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A Brief Analysis Of The Rehabilitation Systems Of Children With Spastic Forms Of Motor Disorders [PDF]
The article briefly analyzes the main studies in the field of overcoming spasticity within the confines of medical and partly pedagogical approaches. It was singled out the range of the main aspects that can be used as a basis for the correction of motor
Moga, N. (Nikolay)
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