ArticleBMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation2022
Sex-related differences in visuomotor skill recovery following concussion in working-aged adults.
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- Preliminary Evaluation of the Circle Sequencing Task (CST) as a Cognitive-Motor Tool for Concussion Assessment.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Relating brain function to cognitive-visuomotor integration performance in working-aged adults with persisting concussion symptoms.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Beyond sex: the effects of testosterone on visuomotor performance in men and women.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Machine learning algorithms for detection of visuomotor neural control differences in individuals with PASC and ME.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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backgroundThe ability to perform visually-guided motor tasks requires the transformation of visual information into programmed motor outputs. When the guiding visual information does not align spatially with the motor output, the brain processes rules to integrate somatosensory information into an appropriate motor response. Performance on such rule-based, "cognitive-motor integration" tasks is affected in concussion. Here, we investigate the relationship between visuomotor skill performance, concussion history, and sex during the course of a post-concussion management program.
methodsFifteen acutely concussed working-aged adults, 11 adults with a history of concussion, and 17 healthy controls all completed a recovery program over the course of 4 weeks. Prior to, mid-way, and following the program, all participants were tested on their visuomotor skills.
resultsWe observed an overall change in visuomotor behaviour in all groups, as participants completed the tasks faster and more accurately. Specifically, we observed significant visuomotor skill improvement between the first and final sessions in participants with a concussion history compared to no-concussion-history controls. Notably, we observed a stronger recovery of these skills in females.
conclusionsOur findings indicate that (1) concussion impairs visuomotor skill performance, (2) the performance of complex, rule-based tasks showed improvement over the course of a recovery program, and (3) stronger recovery in females suggests sex-related differences in the brain networks controlling skilled performance, and the effect of injury on these networks.
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