Psychomotor Performance
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Children at risk for developmental coordination disorder: judgement of changes in action capabilities.

17 Nov 2009 In three separate manipulations, a group of children at risk for developmental coordination disorder (DCD; five males, seven females; mean age 11y 6mo [SD 6.8mo] who were at or below the 15th centile on the Movement ABC) and a group of typically ... Read more...

Sleep deprivation differentially impairs cognitive performance in abstinent methylenedioxymethamphetamine ("Ecstasy") users.

2 Nov 2009 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA; "Ecstasy") is a popular recreational drug and brain serotonin (5-HT) neurotoxin. Neuroimaging data indicate that some human MDMA users develop persistent deficits in brain 5-HT neuronal markers. Although the ... Read more...

Decreased firing of striatal neurons related to licking during acquisition and overtraining of a licking task.

2 Nov 2009 Neurons that fire in relation to licking, in the ventral part of the dorsolateral striatum (DLS), were studied during acquisition and performance of a licking task in rats for 14 sessions (2 h/d). Task learning was indicated by fewer errors of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychomotor Performance'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Children at risk for developmental coordination disorder: judgement of changes in action capabilities. 17 Nov 2009
• Sleep deprivation differentially impairs cognitive performance in abstinent methylenedioxymethamphetamine ("Ecstasy") users. 2 Nov 2009
• Decreased firing of striatal neurons related to licking during acquisition and overtraining of a licking task. 2 Nov 2009
• Dynamic encoding of movement direction in motor cortical neurons. 2 Nov 2009
• The responses of visual neurons in the frontal eye field are biased for saccades. 2 Nov 2009
• Olfactory dysfunction after subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by ruptured aneurysms of the anterior communicating artery. Clinical article. 30 Oct 2009
• Psychometric properties of the Rivermead Motor Assessment: its utility in stroke. 30 Oct 2009
• Central sensory-motor deficit after uneventful single-dose spinal morphine administration in a patient with preexisting migraine headaches. 30 Oct 2009
• Reach-to-grasp interjoint coordination for moving object in children with hemiplegia. 30 Oct 2009
• Robot-based rehabilitation of the upper limbs in multiple sclerosis: feasibility and preliminary results. 30 Oct 2009
• Bilateral robot therapy based on haptics and reinforcement learning: Feasibility study of a new concept for treatment of patients after stroke. 30 Oct 2009
• Vascular risk factors, HIV serostatus, and cognitive dysfunction in gay and bisexual men. 18 Oct 2009
• Cerebellar contributions to adaptive control of saccades in humans. 12 Oct 2009
• Regional changes in word-production laterality after a naming treatment designed to produce a rightward shift in frontal activity. 4 Oct 2009
• Relative preservation of MMSE scores in autopsy-proven dementia with Lewy bodies. 4 Oct 2009
• Driving under low-contrast visibility conditions in Parkinson disease. 4 Oct 2009
• Sequential Monte Carlo point-process estimation of kinematics from neural spiking activity for brain-machine interfaces. 29 Sep 2009
• Verbal representation in task order control: an examination with transition and task cues in random task switching. 29 Sep 2009
• Association of ideomotor apraxia with frontal gray matter volume loss in corticobasal syndrome. 29 Sep 2009
• Investigation of goal change to optimize upper-extremity motor performance in a robotic environment. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychomotor Performance'

Definition: The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity.

Descriptor UI: D011597

Alternative terms: Psychomotor Performance; Performance, Psychomotor; Performances, Psychomotor; Psychomotor Performances; Visual Motor Coordination; Coordination, Visual Motor; Coordinations, Visual Motor; Motor Coordination, Visual; Motor Coordinations, Visual; Visual Motor Coordinations; Perceptual Motor Performance; Motor Performance, Perceptual; Motor Performances, Perceptual; Perceptual Motor Performances; Performance, Perceptual Motor; Performances, Perceptual Motor; Sensory Motor Performance; Motor Performance, Sensory; Motor Performances, Sensory; Performance, Sensory Motor; Performances, Sensory Motor; Sensory Motor Performances;

Related Mesh Headings: Athletic Performance;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.808; G11.427.700; G11.561.623;

History Note: 83