Brain Morphology and Motor Performance
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Motor Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 February 2021) | Viewed by 4443
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Brain morphology has been attributed as one of the contributing factors for motor control and motor performance. It has been shown that many behaviors, which arise from motor skills, are linked to the overall architecture of the brain. Interestingly, the link between brain morphology and motor performance can be disrupted by disorders such as spinal pain, stroke, and brain injury. Evaluating the impact of such disorders is a challenging task, but more important than ever, given the rise of years lived with disabilities among people world-wide. It is important that research on the association of brain morphology and motor performance includes validated experimental measures of motor performance to gain a better understanding of how disorders might impact brain morphology and, consequently, motor control. Brain morphology could eventually serve as an objective biomarker to evaluate the extend of impairment induced by a specific disorder, or even evaluate the progress of a rehabilitation program.
This Special Issue intends to collect articles which focus on unravelling the link between motor performance and brain morphology, the extent to which these are associated, and how their association can be impacted by disorders that involve pain, stroke or brain injury.
Dr. Robby De Pauw
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- brain morphology
- (sensori) motor control
- motor performance
- brain architecture
- skill
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