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Neurophysiological Approaches to Understanding Motor Control in DCD: Current Trends and Future Directions
- Source :
- Current Developmental Disorders Reports. 6:78-86
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- To provide an account of neurophysiological approaches to understanding motor control in DCD, with a specific focus on emerging techniques such as non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) and fNIRS. We also provide an update on evidence from more traditional neurophysiological approaches to understanding atypical motor skills such as EEG. With reference to NIBS data from DCD and congenital motor disorders, we present evidence that compromised excitatory and inhibitory neurophysiology within motor circuitry may provide a biomarker for atypical motor development. Further, we draw parallels between work reviewed here and neuroimaging evidence reviewed elsewhere, highlighting converging lines of evidence implicating motor and executive systems in DCD. Neurophysiological approaches to understanding DCD have the potential to play an important role in clarifying its underlying mechanisms. Given promising findings emerging from other pediatric motor disorders, we argue that continued work into the viability of NIBS in diagnosis and treatment of DCD is warranted.
- Subjects :
- Neural correlates of consciousness
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
Motor control
Motor impairment
Electroencephalography
Neurophysiology
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
0302 clinical medicine
Developmental Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Brain stimulation
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
Neuroscience
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Motor skill
050104 developmental & child psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 21962987
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Developmental Disorders Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a94238f4f287449a39f505a024fb037b