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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 3655

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Robby De Pauw

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Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium

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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Opinion
Little Brain, Big Expectations
by Rubens Gisbert Cury, Carina França, Egberto Reis Barbosa, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira and Daniel Ciampi de Andrade
Brain Sci. 2020, 10(12), 944; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10120944 - 07 Dec 2020
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The cerebellum has been implicated in the mechanisms of several movement disorders. With the recent reports of successful modulation of its functioning, this highly connected structure has emerged as a promising way to provide symptomatic relief not yet obtained by usual treatments. Here [...] Read more.
The cerebellum has been implicated in the mechanisms of several movement disorders. With the recent reports of successful modulation of its functioning, this highly connected structure has emerged as a promising way to provide symptomatic relief not yet obtained by usual treatments. Here we review the most relevant papers published to date, the limitations and gaps in literature, discuss why several papers have failed in showing efficacy, and present a new way of stimulating the cerebellum. References for this critique review were identified by searches on PubMed for the terms “Parkinson’s disease”, “ataxia”, “dystonia”, “tremor”, and “dyskinesias” in combination with the type of stimulation and the stimulation site. Studies conducted thus far have shed light on the potential of cerebellar neuromodulation for attenuating symptoms in patients with some forms of isolated and combined dystonia, dyskinesia in Parkinson’s disease, and neurodegenerative ataxia. However, there is still a high heterogeneity of results and uncertainty about the possibility of maintaining long-term benefits. Because of the complicated architecture of the cerebellum, the modulation techniques employed may have to focus on targeting the activity of the cerebellar nuclei rather than the cerebellar cortex. Measures of cerebellar activity may reduce the variability in outcomes. Full article
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