Neural correlates of basketball proficiency: An MRI study across skill levels by Manqi Zhang, Wenbiao Zhang, Yujie Yao, Jiabao Lin, Lei Mo

“…Background: Basketball is an attractive sport required both cooperative and antagonistic motor skills. However, the neural mechanism of basketball proficiency remains unclear. …”
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Motorcycle Taxi: Initial Discussion on Guidelines for Riding Ajnabiyah Women According to The Sharia Perspective by Mohd Azhar Abdullah, Abdul Azib Hussain, Mohd Saiba Yaacob, Muhammad Lukman Ibrahim, Khairulnazrin Nasir

“…The motor industry and motorcycle taxis have a bright future. …”
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Validation of Parkinson’s Disease-Related Questionnaires in South Africa by Gill Nelson, Ntombizodwa Ndlovu, Nicola Christofides, Tintswalo M. Hlungwani, Irene Faust, Brad A. Racette

“…We evaluated the correlations between the questionnaires and both a timed motor task and the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale motor subsection 3 (UPDRS3), using locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (LOWESS) regression analysis and Spearman’s rank correlation. …”
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Deficient Purposeful Use of Forepaws in Female Mice Modelling Rett Syndrome by Bianca De Filippis, Mattia Musto, Luisa Altabella, Emilia Romano, Rossella Canese, Giovanni Laviola

“…In the present study we investigated motor coordination and fine motor skill domains in MeCP2-308 female mice, a validated RTT model. …”
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Hypomania, Depression, Euthymia: New Evidence in Parkinson’s Disease by Margherita Canesi, Sara Lavolpe, Viviana Cereda, Alessandra Ranghetti, Roberto Maestri, Gianni Pezzoli, Maria Luisa Rusconi

“…We enrolled 93 PD outpatients (three groups: drug naive—DN; not exhibiting motor fluctuations—n-MF; and exhibiting motor fluctuations—MF) and 50 healthy controls. …”
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Altered cortical network dynamics during observing and preparing action in patients with corticobasal syndrome by Marius Krösche, Christian J. Hartmann, Markus Butz, Alfons Schnitzler, Jan Hirschmann

“…This reduction was evident bilaterally in superior parietal, primary motor, premotor and inferior frontal cortex. During movement preparation, beta power suppression was also reduced in CBS patients, correlating with longer reaction times. …”
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Air Heat Pump in Wind Power by L. I. Gretchikhin, A. I. Hutkouski

“…When  placing  the  two  specified  propellers  on a 300 W motor, the minimum pre-rotation power was 5.7 W. …”
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Identification of Cognitive Training for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review by Marina Francesca Gattoni, Silvia Gobbo, Sarah Feroldi, Anna Salvatore, Jorge Navarro, Sandro Sorbi, Francesca Lea Saibene

“…<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, characterised by cardinal motor features and a multitude of non-motor manifestations. …”
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Manganese Inhalation as a Parkinson Disease Model by José Luis Ordoñez-Librado, Verónica Anaya-Martínez, Ana Luisa Gutierrez-Valdez, Laura Colín-Barenque, Enrique Montiel-Flores, Maria Rosa Avila-Costa

“…Before Mn exposure, animals were trained to perform motor function tests and were evaluated each week after the exposure. …”
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Infiltrating peripheral monocyte TREM-1 mediates dopaminergic neuron injury in substantia nigra of Parkinson’s disease model mice by Wei Song, Zi-ming Zhou, Le-le Zhang, Hai-feng Shu, Jin-ru Xia, Xia Qin, Rong Hua, Yong-mei Zhang

“…TREM-1 inhibition, both genetically and pharmacologically, reduced monocyte infiltration, alleviated neuroinflammation, and preserved dopaminergic neurons, resulting in improved motor function. Furthermore, adoptive transfer of TREM-1-expressing monocytes from PD model mice to naive mice induced neuronal damage and motor deficits. …”
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Impact of Chorea on Self-care Activity, Employment, and Health-care Resource Use in Patients with Huntington’s Disease by Daniel O. Claassen, Jonathan DeCourcy, Jennifer Mellor, Charlotte Johnston, Ravi G. Iyer

“…**Background:** Chorea is recognized as a prototypic motor feature of Huntington’s disease (HD), but its effect on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has not been fully explored. …”
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Prehospital Intubation in Patients with Isolated Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A 4-Year Observational Study by Mazin Tuma, Ayman El-Menyar, Husham Abdelrahman, Hassan Al-Thani, Ahmad Zarour, Ashok Parchani, Sherwan Khoshnaw, Ruben Peralta, Rifat Latifi

“…On multivariate regression analysis, scene motor GCS (OR 0.55; 95% CI 0.41–0.73) was an independent predictor for mortality. …”
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Protocol for evaluating the effects of integrating music with taekwondo training in children with autism spectrum disorder: A randomized controlled trial. by Clare C W Yu, Kam M Mok, Emma Mak, Chun T Au, Dorothy F Y Chan, Stanley Wu, Raymond C K Chung, Matthew C K Ip, Simpson W L Wong

“…<h4>Background</h4>Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are known to experience difficulties in coordinating fine- and gross-motor movement. Previous interventional studies have reported significant effect of exercise-based intervention programs on improving motor skills and alleviating symptoms in ASD; however, researchers are yet to know why some participants experienced less improvement than others. …”
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Urinary Intestinal Fatty Acid-Binding Protein Can Distinguish Necrotizing Enterocolitis from Sepsis in Early Stage of the Disease by Stepan Coufal, Alena Kokesova, Helena Tlaskalova-Hogenova, Jiri Snajdauf, Michal Rygl, Miloslav Kverka

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The Effects of 1 mA tACS and tRNS on Children/Adolescents and Adults: Investigating Age and Sensitivity to Sham Stimulation by Maike Splittgerber, Jan Hendrik Suwelack, Navah Ester Kadish, Vera Moliadze

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of transcranial random noise (tRNS) and transcranial alternating current (tACS) stimulation on motor cortex excitability in healthy children and adolescents. …”
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Effect of Zbtb33 gene knockout and bacterial lipopolysaccharide on home cage behavior in mice by N. V. Khotskin, I. E. Sorokin, E. A. Kulikova, A. V.  Kulikov

“…LPS at both doses suppressed motor activity, prolonged sleep duration and caused anorexia in mice of both genotypes. …”
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Patients with symptoms of delayed gastric emptying have a high prevalence of oesophageal dysmotility, irrespective of scintigraphic evidence of gastroparesis by George Triadafilopoulos, John O Clarke, Linda Nguyen

“…There was no relationship between oesophageal symptoms and motor or pH abnormalities in either groups.Conclusions Irrespective of gastric emptying delay by scintigraphy, patients with symptoms suggestive of gastric neuromuscular dysfunction have a high prevalence of oesophageal motor disorder and pathological oesophageal acid exposure that may contribute to their symptoms and may require therapy. …”
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Differences in the movement phase condition and sensory inputs on temporal synchronization and continuation during bilateral foot-tapping tasks by Atsuki Numata, Yasuo Terao, Kenichi Sugawara, Yoshikazu Ugawa, Toshiaki Furubayashi

“…We investigated the ability of bilateral lower limb motor control for performing this task as a crucial metric for examining motor coordination relevant to human locomotion, such as walking. …”
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Reproducibility of indirect persistent inward current indicators with neuromuscular electrical stimulation by Timothée Popesco, Davide D'Amato Brunetta, Stefano Pata, Nicolas Place

“…Notably, PICs play an important role in motor unit behavior (Heckman & Enoka, 2012) and are thought to be involved in the centrally mediated responses to NMES. …”
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Axonal regeneration and innervation ratio following supercharged end-to-side nerve transfer by Leopold Harnoncourt, Martin Schmoll, Christopher Festin, Laurenz Pflaum, Markus Breuss, Johanna Klepetko, Dominik C. Dotzauer, Florian J. Jaklin, Udo Maierhofer, Philipp Tratnig-Frankl, Oskar C. Aszmann, Oskar C. Aszmann

“…Retrograde labeling demonstrated motor neuron regeneration of both the MCN and UN in a distal direction toward the muscle; however, tracer uptake of the UN motor neurons following intramuscular tracer application was detected only in Group C. …”
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