Motor Skills

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A method of quantification for the evaluation of antiepileptic drug therapy. 
  • A model interdisciplinary diagnostic and treatment nursery. 
  • A normative sample using the Loong Computerized Tapping Program. 
  • A prospective study of maternal anxiety, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms in relation to infant cognitive development. 
  • A quality assurance study on the accuracy of measuring physical function under current conditions for use of clinical video telehealth. 
  • A technique for investigating the intensity and duration of human psychomotor impairment after intravenous diazepam. 
  • A test of the effectiveness of sensor lines showing linkages between displays and controls. 
  • Action control: independent effects of memory and monocular viewing on reaching accuracy. 
  • Age of achievement of gross motor milestones in infancy and adiposity at age 3 years. 
  • Arch structure is associated with unique joint work, relative joint contributions and stiffness during landing. 
  • Balance performance on the postural stress test: comparison of young adults, healthy elderly, and fallers. 
  • Behavioral problems are associated with cognitive and language scores in toddlers born extremely preterm. 
  • Brain microvascular injury and white matter disease provoked by diabetes-associated hyperamylinemia. 
  • Brain stem neurons in modified pathways for motor learning in the primate vestibulo-ocular reflex. 
  • Carbohydrates and physical/mental performance during intermittent exercise to fatigue. 
  • Cardiovascular reactivity assessment: effects of choice of difficulty on laboratory task responses. 
  • Cerebral lateralization in individuals diagnosed as autistic in early childhood. 
  • Changes in transversus abdominis thickness with use of the abdominal drawing-in maneuver during a functional task. 
  • Chlorpyrifos exposure during a critical neonatal period elicits gender-selective deficits in the development of coordination skills and locomotor activity. 
  • Chronic-intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence prevents normal developmental changes in sensitivity to ethanol-induced motor impairments. 
  • Cognitive and academic outcomes in long-term survivors of infantile-onset Pompe disease: A longitudinal follow-up. 
  • Contextual interference effects on the acquisition of skill and strength of the bench press. 
  • Correlation of neurodevelopmental features and MRI findings in infantile Krabbe's disease. 
  • Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor task. 
  • Deep brain stimulation as a mode of treatment of early onset pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration. 
  • Deliberate practice of motor skills in nursing education: CPR as exemplar. 
  • Development of a teletechnology protocol for in-home rehabilitation. 
  • Differential corticostriatal plasticity during fast and slow motor skill learning in mice. 
  • Dimensional complexity of neuromagnetic activity reduced during finger movement of greater difficulty. 
  • Disability fingerprints: patterns of disability in spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis differ. 
  • Does functional reach improve with rehabilitation? 
  • Dynamic reorganization of striatal circuits during the acquisition and consolidation of a skill. 
  • Early cognitive development in children with infantile Pompe disease. 
  • Effect of Autologous Cord Blood Infusion on Motor Function and Brain Connectivity in Young Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial. 
  • Effects of marijuana on performance of a computerized cognitive-neuromotor test battery. 
  • Electroencephalography power and coherence changes with age and motor skill development across the first half year of life. 
  • Ethanol-induced hydrolysis of brain sialoglycoconjugates in the rat: effect of sialic acid in antagonizing ethanol intoxication. 
  • Evaluation of an augmented virtual reality and haptic control interface for psychomotor training. 
  • Exercise adherence or maintenance among older adults: 1-year follow-up study. 
  • Experience-dependent changes in cerebellar contributions to motor sequence learning. 
  • Fluoxetine Maintains a State of Heightened Responsiveness to Motor Training Early After Stroke in a Mouse Model. 
  • Heading and head injuries in soccer. 
  • High-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus reverses limb-use asymmetry in rats with unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions. 
  • Impaired tool-using behavior in monkeys from bilateral destruction of the dorsomedial nuclei of the thalamus. 
  • Importance of the intracellular domain of NR2 subunits for NMDA receptor function in vivo. 
  • Increased expression of the dopamine transporter leads to loss of dopamine neurons, oxidative stress and l-DOPA reversible motor deficits. 
  • Independent effects of HIV infection and cocaine dependence on neurocognitive impairment in a community sample living in the southern United States. 
  • Inferior Olivary TMEM16B Mediates Cerebellar Motor Learning. 
  • Influence of lesion size and location on amphetamine-facilitated recovery of beam-walking in rats. 
  • Influence of regional iron on the motor impairments of Parkinson's disease: A quantitative susceptibility mapping study. 
  • Intellectual functioning in renal failure and chronic dialysis. 
  • Istradefylline for Parkinson's disease patients experiencing motor fluctuations: results of the KW-6002-US-018 study. 
  • Left hemisphere specialization for facial and manual imitation. 
  • Long-term effects of exercise on psychological functioning in older men and women. 
  • Longitudinal associations of gross motor development, motor milestone achievement and weight-for-length z score in a racially diverse cohort of US infants. 
  • Longitudinal evaluation of an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-created murine model with normal pressure hydrocephalus. 
  • Longitudinal evaluation of fine motor skills in children with leukemia. 
  • Lower extremity motor control-related and other risk factors for noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injuries. 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of mouse brain networks plasticity following motor learning. 
  • Mapping the structure of perceptual and visual-motor abilities in healthy young adults. 
  • Medial premotor cortex shows a reduction in inhibitory markers and mediates recovery in a mouse model of focal stroke. 
  • Mental, emotional factors contribute to job safety. 
  • Mentored simulation training improves procedural skills in cardiac catheterization: a randomized, controlled pilot study. 
  • Motor and Cognitive Functional Status Are Associated with 30-day Unplanned Rehospitalization Following Post-Acute Care in Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries. 
  • Motor symptoms at onset of Parkinson disease and risk for cognitive impairment and depression. 
  • Neonatal behavior of infants of adolescent mothers. 
  • Neurobehavioral functioning in a nonconfounded group of asymptomatic HIV-seropositive homosexual men. 
  • Neurodevelopment in children with single-suture craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis. 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes of umbilical cord blood transplantation in metachromatic leukodystrophy. 
  • Neurologic manifestations of tri-O-cresyl phosphate delayed neurotoxicity in cats. 
  • Neurologic outcome after cardiopulmonary bypass with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in rats: description of a new model. 
  • Neurologic, neurocognitive, and brain growth outcomes in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children receiving different nucleoside antiretroviral regimens. Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group 152 Study Team. 
  • Neuromuscular and biomechanical characteristics do not vary across the menstrual cycle. 
  • Nusinersen versus Sham Control in Infantile-Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy. 
  • One hundred eleven thumb amputations: replantation vs revision. 
  • Physical therapy management of infants and children with hypophosphatasia. 
  • Physiologic basis for motor learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex. 
  • Predicting changes in physical performance in a high-functioning elderly cohort: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Preliminary study of ergonomic behavior during simulated ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia using a head-mounted display. 
  • Primate reaching cued by multichannel spatiotemporal cortical microstimulation. 
  • Purkinje-cell plasticity and cerebellar motor learning are graded by complex-spike duration. 
  • Quality of life and Parkinson's disease. 
  • Reduced expression of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter causes learning deficits in mice. 
  • Reduction of single-neuron firing uncertainty by cortical ensembles during motor skill learning. 
  • Relations of age and personality dimensions to cognitive ability factors. 
  • Reliability and validity of the TIMPSI for infants with spinal muscular atrophy type I. 
  • Role of primate flocculus during rapid behavioral modification of vestibuloocular reflex. I. Purkinje cell activity during visually guided horizontal smooth-pursuit eye movements and passive head rotation. 
  • Safety and efficacy of alternative alglucosidase alfa regimens in Pompe disease. 
  • Self-efficacy effects on neuroelectric and behavioral indices of action monitoring in older adults. 
  • Self-recognition in autistic children. 
  • Sensorimotor Learning in a Computerized Athletic Training Battery. 
  • Skilled Bimanual Training Drives Motor Cortex Plasticity in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy. 
  • Systemic venous oxygen saturation after the Norwood procedure and childhood neurodevelopmental outcome. 
  • Testing fine motor coordination via telehealth: Effects of video characteristics on reliability and validity. 
  • The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales: supplementary norms for individuals with autism. 
  • The effect of upper extremity trauma on handedness. 
  • The latency of pathways containing the site of motor learning in the monkey vestibulo-ocular reflex. 
  • The neural basis for learning of simple motor skills. 
  • Tools for the direct observation and assessment of psychomotor skills in medical trainees: a systematic review. 
  • Toward evidence-based nursing education: deliberate practice and motor skill learning. 
  • Training the novice in laparoscopy. More challenge is better. 
  • Transplantation of umbilical-cord blood in babies with infantile Krabbe's disease. 
  • Use of deliberate practice in teaching in nursing. 
  • Verapamil effects on physiological and behavioral responses to ethanol in the rat. 
  • Visual abilities distinguish pitchers from hitters in professional baseball. 
  • Visual-motor expertise in athletes: Insights from semiparametric modelling of 2317 athletes tested on the Nike SPARQ Sensory Station. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Appelbaum, Lawrence Gregory, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Case, Laura Elizabeth, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy
  • Lisberger, Stephen, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research in Neurobiology, Neurobiology
  • McClintock, Shawn Michael, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Brain Stimulation and Neurophysiology
  • Nicolelis, Miguel Angelo L., Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology