"The part of Isabelle's brain that controlled motor functioning in her face was progressively being used for function in her hands," Benoît Lengelé, a Belgian surgeon working with the French team, told me.
After a year, the researchers assessed patients' memory, attention, reasoning, language, orientation, and complex motor functioning.
Results: FIM scores increased significantly during rehabilitation, mainly due to improvement in motor functioning.
This latter point is, however, less likely since previous studies showed no effect of caffeine on human motor functioning [51]; although see [14] for a different view.
Overall, patients with unilateral knee or hip replacement experienced substantial improvement in motor functioning both during and up to six months following inpatient rehabilitation.
These are chemically related to nicotine, and they are thought to challenge the health of bee colonies by impairing bees' ability to learn and navigate as well as impairing their motor functioning.
Mustard has noted that "Alcohol affects bees and humans in similar ways it impairs motor functioning along with learning and memory processing".
Moreover, impairment of sensory perception is thought to be a key component of decreased fine motor functioning [12].
Emanating from these early findings has been a wellspring of studies examining resting brain states in the context of cognitive, sensory, and motor functioning.
