Impaired motor planning and motor imagery in children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy: Challenges for the future of pediatric rehabilitation

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue SUPPL.4, 2013, Pages 43-46

  Steenbergen, Bert ^a   Jongbloed Pereboom, Marjolein ^a   Spruijt, Steffie ^a   Gordon, Andrew M ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL PALSY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER; HUMAN; IMAGERY; IMPAIRED MOTOR PLANNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR IMAGERY DEFICIT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; UNILATERAL SPASTIC CEREBRAL PALSY; WORKING MEMORY;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84888029906     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.12306     Document Type: Article

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