Showing posts with label motor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motor. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Scientists Are Studying The Problem Of Premature Infants

Scientists Are Studying The Problem Of Premature Infants.
A unrealized budding way to identify premature infants at high risk for delays in motor skills advance may have been discovered by researchers. The researchers conducted brain scans on 43 infants in the United Kingdom who were born at less than 32 weeks' gestation and admitted to a neonatal thorough carefulness unit (NICU). The scans focused on the brain's white matter, which is especially light in newborns and at risk for injury.They also conducted tests that measured certain brain chemical levels.

When 40 of the infants were evaluated a year later, 15 had signs of motor problems, according to the research published online Dec 17, 2013 in the newspaper Radiology. Motor skills are typically described as the demanding movement of muscles or groups of muscles to perform a certain act. The researchers purposeful that ratios of particular brain chemicals at birth can help predict motor-skill problems.

Monday, 17 March 2014

New Info On Tourette Syndrome

New Info On Tourette Syndrome.
New understanding into what causes the of control movement and noises (tics) in people with Tourette syndrome may lead to new non-drug treatments for the disorder, a further study suggests Dec 2013. These tics appear to be caused by subnormal wiring in the brain that results in "hyper-excitability" in the regions that control motor function, according to the researchers at the University of Nottingham in England. "This fresh study is very important as it indicates that motor and vocal tics in children may be controlled by discernment changes that alter the excitability of brain cells ahead of willing movements," Stephen Jackson, a professor in the school of psychology, said in a university news release.

So "You can consider of this as a bit like turning the volume down on an over-loud motor system. This is respected as it suggests a mechanism that might lead to an effective non-pharmacological therapy for Tourette syndrome". Tourette syndrome affects about one in 100 children and in the main beings in early childhood. During adolescence, because of structural and essential brain changes, about one-third of children with Tourette syndrome will lose their tics and another third will get better at controlling their tics.