Emad Al-Yahya, Patrick Esser, Benjamin D Weedon, Shawn Joshi, Yan-Ci Liu, Daniella N Springett, Piergiorgio Salvan, Andy Meaney, Johnny Collett, Mario Inacio, Anne Delextrat, Steve Kemp, Tomas Ward, Hooshang Izadi, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Hasan Ayaz, Helen Dawes
Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterized by motor learning deficits that are poorly understood within whole-body activities context. Here we present results of one of the largest non-randomized interventional trials combining brain imaging and motion capture techniques to examine motor skill acquisition and its underpinning mechanisms in adolescents with and without DCD. A total of 86 adolescents with low fitness levels (including 48 with DCD) were trained on a novel stepping task for a duration of 7 weeks...
2023: Frontiers in Neuroscience