Driving is a complicated process that demands coordination between range of neurocognitive functions, including attention, visuo-perception, and appropriate judgment, as well sensory motor responses. Therefore, several factors may reduce the driving performance an individual, such sleepiness, distraction, overspeeding, alcohol consumption, sedative drugs, all which increase hazard vehicle accid...

The cerebellum has been considered for a long time to play a role solely in motor coordination. However, studies over the past two decades have shown that the cerebellum also plays a key role in many motor, cognitive, and emotional processes. In addition, studies have also shown that the cerebellum is implicated in many psychiatric disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a...

BACKGROUND Neurological disturbances are common problems in children with Down Syndrome (DS). AIM To determine the prevalence of neurological disorders affecting children with Down Syndrome. PATIENTS AND METHODS Review of medical records of 253 children aged from 1 day to 23 years affected with DS, attended at a public hospital and a University clinic. RESULTS The overall prevalence of ne...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of tic disorders in children varies from 1% to 29% depending on the characteristics of the study population, the diagnostic criteria, and the study design and methods. AIMS To calculate the prevalence of tic disorders among primary school children in Italy. METHODS The study population comprised 2347 primary school children from the city of Pavia (pop. 80 073), Nor...

introduction: as an inherited neurodegenerative disease, huntington's disease is accompanied with wide neuronal degeneration in neostriatum and neocortex. progress of the disease causes disabling clinical effects on movements, recognition and physiology of the body, and finally results in death. at this stage of knowledge we are, there is no effective therapeutic strategy for diminishing t...

BACKGROUND Conduction block is considered an essential finding for the distinction between motor neuropathies and lower motor neuron disorders. Only a small number of reports describe patients with multifocal motor neuropathies who lack overt conduction block, although in these cases other features of demyelination still suggest the presence of a demyelinating disorder. In contrast, a purely ax...

According to the criteria of prevalence and loss working capacity, diseases gastrointestinal tract (GIT) occupy one leading places. Disorders functional state tract, which are accompanied by violations its motor-evacuation functions, considered. To identify motility disorders, it is necessary conduct studies that invasive, or radiation exposure difficult analyze. In this regard, simple non-inva...

In this research topic, we have gathered articles focusing on the psychomotor component of psychiatric disorders. Indeed,motor symptoms remain as an important dimension of psychopathology that can be assessed by objective means. Particularly, in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia, motor signs have been acknowledged from the very early descriptions (1–3). But, psychomotor abnormalities ...