OBJECTIVE To provide family physicians with an approach to office management of gait disorders in the elderly. SOURCES OF INFORMATION Ovid MEDLINE was searched from 1950 to July 2010 using subject headings for gait or neurologic gait disorders combined with physical examination. Articles specific to family practice or family physicians were selected. Relevant review articles and original rese...

While the hippocampus makes unique contributions to memory, it has also long been associated with sensorimotor processes, i.e. innate processes involving control of motor responses to sensory stimuli. Moreover, hippocampal dysfunction has been implicated in neuropsychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, primarily characterized by non-mnemonic deficits in the processing ...

Oscillations are a prominent feature of macroscopic human sensorimotor cortical activity as recorded non-invasively with electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG). The advent of whole-scalp MEG systems allowing rapid non-invasive recording from the entire cortex and accurate localisation of neural sources, and the development of refined signal analysis methods are important ...

As bodies grow and change throughout early development and across the lifespan, animals must develop, refine, and maintain accurate sensorimotor maps. Here we review evidence that myoclonic twitches-brief and discrete contractions of the muscles, occurring exclusively during REM (or active) sleep, that result in jerks of the limbs-help animals map their ever-changing bodies by activating skelet...

INTRODUCTION Sensorimotor integration is defined as the capability of the central nervous system to integrate different sources of stimuli, and parallelly, to transform such inputs in motor actions. AIM To review the basic principles of sensorimotor integration, such as, its neural bases and its elementary mechanisms involved in specific goal-directed tasks performed by healthy subjects, and ...

223 Aged rodents, like aged humans, exhibit a decline in sensory and motor functions, learning and memory /1/. The altered dopaminergic transmission in the nigrostriatal system is implicated in movement disorders and sensorimotor coordination disabilities associated with aging /2/.

Prepulse inhibition is a type of sensorimotor gating that is disrupted in some neuropsychiatric disorders. Its cellular basis has eluded investigators but now, using a molluscan model system, a cellular mechanism has been established.

A set of behavioral tasks for assessing perceptual and sensorimotor timing abilities in the general population (i.e., non-musicians) is presented here with the goal of uncovering rhythm disorders, such as beat deafness. Beat deafness is characterized by poor performance in perceiving durations in auditory rhythmic patterns or poor synchronization of movement with auditory rhythms (e.g., with mu...