ReviewCerebellum (London, England)2010
Cerebellar motor function in spina bifida meningomyelocele.
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- Life expectancy in open spina bifida.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2026Article
- Long-Term Imaging Follow-up from the Management of Myelomeningocele Study.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2023Article
- Neurobehavioural changes and morphological study of cerebellar purkinje cells in kaolin induced hydrocephalus.Anatomical science international · 2021Article
- Long-Term Intellectual and Fine Motor Outcomes in Spina Bifida Are Related to Myelomeningocele Repair and Shunt Intervention History.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2020Article
- Correlation Between Neurologic Impairment Grade and Ambulation Status in the Adult Spina Bifida Population.American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Gray matter integrity within regions of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortical-subcortical network predicts executive function and fine motor dexterity in spina bifida.Neuropsychology · 2016Article
- Spina bifida.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2015Review
- Functional plasticity in childhood brain disorders: when, what, how, and whom to assess.Neuropsychology review · 2014Review
- Covert orienting in three etiologies of congenital hydrocephalus: the effect of midbrain and posterior fossa dysmorphology.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2014Article
- Motor contingency learning and infants with Spina Bifida.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2013Article
- Cerebral Abnormalities in Spina Bifida: A Neuropathological Study.Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology SocietyArticle
- Electrophysiological Study in the Right Upper and Lower Limbs in Infants with Lumbosacral Meningomyelocele and in Normal Infants: A Case-control Study.International journal of applied & basic medical researchArticle
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Abstract
Spina bifida meningomyelocele (SBM), a congenital neurodevelopmental disorder, involves dysmorphology of the cerebellum, and its most obvious manifestations are motor deficits. This paper reviews cerebellar neuropathology and motor function across several motor systems well studied in SBM in relation to current models of cerebellar motor and timing function. Children and adults with SBM have widespread motor deficits in trunk, upper limbs, eyes, and speech articulators that are broadly congruent with those observed in adults with cerebellar lesions. The structure and function of the cerebellum are correlated with a range of motor functions. While motor learning is generally preserved in SBM, those motor functions requiring predictive signals and precise calibration of the temporal features of movement are impaired, resulting in deficits in smooth movement coordination as well as in the classical cerebellar triad of dysmetria, ataxia, and dysarthria. That motor function in individuals with SBM is disordered in a manner phenotypically similar to that in adult cerebellar lesions, and appears to involve similar deficits in predictive cerebellar motor control, suggests that age-based cerebellar motor plasticity is limited in individuals with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
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