Motor and cognitive performance differences between children with and without developmental coordination disorder (DCD)

Ασωνίτου, Κατερίνα; Koutsouki, Dimitra; Kourtessis, Thomas; Charitou, Sofia

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2012.01.008

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“…While the etiology of DCD has yet to be fully understood, previous research has suggested associations between motor deficits and cognitive processing (e.g. [36]). The movement requirements in our existing protocol are relatively simple and have few motor planning requirements, thus enabling participants with poor motor coordination to successfully perform the task.…”

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Brain Activation in the Prefrontal Cortex during Motor and Cognitive Tasks in Adults

Liang¹,

Shewokis²,

Getchell³

2016

JBBS

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The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays an important role in cognitive function, involved in Executive Functions (EFs) such as planning, working memory, and inhibition. Activation in the PFC also occurs during some motor activities. One commonly used tool to assess EF is the Tower of Hanoi, demonstrating sensitivity to PFC dysfunction. However, limited neuroimaging evidence is available to support the contribution of the PFC in the Tower of Hanoi task. In the current study, we use functional near infrared (fNIR) spectroscopy to examine hemodynamic responses associated with neural activity in the PFC in adults as they participate in the Tower of Hanoi task. We compared changes in cerebral oxygenation during resting, a motor task (tapping), and the Tower of Hanoi in 16 neurotypical adults, with measures of relative changes in concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin (Δoxy-Hb) and deoxygenated hemoglobin (Δdeoxy-Hb) taken throughout tasks, as well as total hemoglobin (ΔHbT) and oxygenation (Δoxy). Performance on the Tower of Hanoi was measured by the number of moves used to complete each level and the highest level of successful performance (3, 4, or 5 disks). We found a significant higher value of Δoxy-Hb and Δoxy in dorsolateral PFC (DLPFC) during the Tower of Hanoi as compared to tapping and resting. Significant changes in Δdeoxy-Hb and ΔHbT during the Tower of Hanoi were found in the right DLPFC only. These results support the notion that the Tower of Hanoi task requires higher levels of PFC activity than a similar motor task with low executive function demands.

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Brain Activation in the Prefrontal Cortex during Motor and Cognitive Tasks in Adults

Liang¹,

Shewokis²,

Getchell³

2016

JBBS

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“…The impact is especially noticeable in everyday activities such as dressing, to tie the shoelaces, using cutlery, cycling, grab and throw a ball. However, some children have only academic performance, particularly in writing and spatial organization (Asonitou, Koutsouki, Kourtessis, & Charitou, 2012;Magalhães, Rezende, Amparo, Ferreira, & Renger, 2009).…”

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Prevalence of Developmental Coordination Disorder signs in children 5 to 14 years in São Carlos

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This study aimed to identify the prevalence of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) in children aged 5-14 years, enrolled in public preschools and elementary schools in São Carlos -SP. There were 130 participating families. Instruments were: Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire -Brazil (DCDQ -Brazil), Brazil criteria and a questionnaire for the characterization of children. The prevalence of DCD found was 30%, which is overestimated when compared to data found in much of the literature, justified by the use of the instrument for detection of the DCD. No significant difference was found between the presence of signs in boys and girls and there was a higher concentration of children with DCD signs on B2, C1 and C2 socioeconomic classes. The prevalence of DCD signs was higher in children over 8 years.

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“…As such, the motor profiles of these different conditions are yet to be fully ascertained (especially as all these studies have involved child samples), but the answer as to the specificity of motor disorder to autism would therefore at present have to be negative. If motor systems do play a role in higher cognitive function, the presence of motor deficits in developmental conditions such as SLI (Hill, 2001;Marton, 2009;McPhillips et al, 2014;Ullman & Pierpont, 2005;Zelaznik & Goffman, 2010), and the presence of higher cognitive deficits in conditions such as DCD (Asonitou, Koutsouki, Kourtessis, & Charitou, 2012;Dewey, Kaplan, Crawford, & Wilson, 2002;Wilson & McKenzie, 1998), is unsurprising. In the above paragraphs, we begin to observe, for example in the studies of movement planning, that movement disorder can result from disruption at one or several stages in the cognitive and underlying neural chain of movement production.…”

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What can autism teach us about the role of sensorimotor systems in higher cognition? New clues from studies on language, action semantics, and abstract emotional concept processing

Moseley

Pulvermüller

2018

Cortex

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Motor and cognitive performance differences between children with and without developmental coordination disorder (DCD)

Cited by 95 publications

References 52 publications

Brain Activation in the Prefrontal Cortex during Motor and Cognitive Tasks in Adults

Brain Activation in the Prefrontal Cortex during Motor and Cognitive Tasks in Adults

Prevalence of Developmental Coordination Disorder signs in children 5 to 14 years in São Carlos

What can autism teach us about the role of sensorimotor systems in higher cognition? New clues from studies on language, action semantics, and abstract emotional concept processing

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