Steinberg and his team chose 18 patients who had sustained ischemic strokes resulting in motor function problems.
The paper presents the Motor Function Neurological Assessment (MFNU), as a tool for identifying typical motor function problems in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
A previous study showed that a high percentage of children diagnosed with Hyperkinetic Disorder (HKD) displayed a consistent pattern of motor function problems.
The study confirms our clinical findings that the MFNU measures a consistent pattern of motor function problems in children with HKD, and that these problems are rarely represented in individuals without ADHD.
The aims of the present study were to investigate whether adults with ADHD exhibit the motor function problems demonstrated in children with ADHD and to investigate whether such motor problems were related to the presence of reported pain.
Children who have motor function problems similar to those classified at level 1, can generally walk without restrictions but tend to be limited in some of the more advanced motor skills.
These analyses revealed an absence of consistent differences between the scores of children in the amalgam and composite treatment groups on a battery of neuropsychological tests that assessed a wide range of domains, including intelligence, achievement, language, memory, learning, visual spatial skills, verbal fluency, fine motor function, problem solving, attention, and executive function.
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving 534 6- to 10-year-old urban and rural children who were assessed yearly for 5 years using a battery of tests of intelligence, achievement, language, memory, learning, visual spatial skills, verbal fluency, fine motor function, problem solving, attention, and executive function.
Because of his dyslexia and other perceptual and motor-function problems, Mr. Malloy said, his teachers thought he was retarded until he was in the fourth grade.
The TAPQOL is a multidimensional instrument with 43 items divided into 12 scales covering the following aspects: sleeping problems, appetite, lung problems, stomach problems, skin problems, motor functioning, social functioning, problem behavior, communication, anxiety, positive mood, and liveliness.
On the other hand, the identification of the kinematic metrics that best evaluate impairment of upper-extremity motor function is a key problem of any measurement protocol.
