ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2024
Age- and sex-related changes in motor functions: a comprehensive assessment and component analysis.
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- Age- and sex-related changes in motor functions: a comprehensive assessment and component analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Dissecting the sex-dependent muscle-brain axis: Hippocampal subfields mediate the association between grip strength and cognition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.Journal of Alzheimer's disease reportsArticle
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Abstract
Age-related motor impairments often cause caregiver dependency or even hospitalization. However, comprehensive investigations of the different motor abilities and the changes thereof across the adult lifespan remain sparse. We, therefore, extensively assessed essential basic and complex motor functions in 444 healthy adults covering a wide age range (range 21 to 88 years). Basic motor functions, here defined as simple isolated single or repetitive movements in one direction, were assessed by means of maximum grip strength (GS) and maximum finger-tapping frequency (FTF). Complex motor functions, comprising composite sequential movements involving both proximal and distal joints/muscle groups, were evaluated with the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT), the Jebsen-Taylor Hand Function Test (JTT), and the Purdue Pegboard Test. Men achieved higher scores than women concerning GS and FTF, whereas women stacked more pins per time than men during the Purdue Pegboard Test. There was no significant sex effect regarding JTT. We observed a significant but task-specific reduction of basic and complex motor performance scores across the adult lifespan. Linear regression analyses significantly predicted the participants' ages based on motor performance scores (
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