SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2022
Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research on Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD): A Combined Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Recent Findings.
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- The prevalence of developmental coordination disorder in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- How can instructions and feedback with external focus be shaped to enhance motor learning in children? A systematic review.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
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- Persistent Sensory, Motor and Functional Difficulties From Childhood to Adolescence in Developmental Coordination Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Toward preventive interventions in developmental coordination disorder: in need of early behavioral markers?Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Artificial Intelligence in the Evaluation and Intervention of Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Scoping Review of Methods, Clinical Purposes, and Future Directions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Motor imagery as a cognitive mechanism in interventions for children with developmental coordination disorder: a narrative review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Functional heterogeneity of beta bursts in childhood reveals a dimensional neural signature of motor skill.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Motor intervention therapy for children with developmental coordination disorder: from behavioral improvement to neuroplasticity mechanisms.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Persistence of motor-cognitive inhibition deficits in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD): a longitudinal perspective.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Proprioceptive and visual motion detection acuity contribute to children's dynamic postural control.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Resting State Electroencephalography (EEG) Reveals Atypical Oscillatory Power in Children With Development Coordination Disorder (DCD).Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- An Explorative Retrospective Video Analysis of Movement Quality in Infants Later Diagnosed with Developmental Coordination Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Time-Normalization Approach for fNIRS Data During Tasks with High Variability in Duration.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
aimThe neurocognitive basis of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD; or motor clumsiness) remains an issue of continued debate. This combined systematic review and meta-analysis provides a synthesis of recent experimental studies on the motor control, cognitive, and neural underpinnings of DCD.
methodsThe review included all published work conducted since September 2016 and up to April 2021. One-hundred papers with a DCD-Control comparison were included, with 1,374 effect sizes entered into a multi-level meta-analysis.
resultsThe most profound deficits were shown in: voluntary gaze control during movement; cognitive-motor integration; practice-/context-dependent motor learning; internal modeling; more variable movement kinematics/kinetics; larger safety margins when locomoting, and atypical neural structure and function across sensori-motor and prefrontal regions.
interpretationTaken together, these results on DCD suggest fundamental deficits in visual-motor mapping and cognitive-motor integration, and abnormal maturation of motor networks, but also areas of pragmatic compensation for motor control deficits. Implications for current theory, future research, and evidence-based practice are discussed. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO, identifier: CRD42020185444.
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