Standardized motor and sensory nerve conduction studies were performed on the right peroneal and sural nerve by a neurophysiologist blinded to the individuals' group identity.
To address this question, healthy participants and patients with LAS were tested in a challenging, yet standardized motor task that involves the coordination of multiple limb segments as well as good motor planning, i.e. that requires an optimal motor control [ 32– 32].
Quantitative assessment of bradykinesia was achieved with the help of a finger tap task, Purdue Pegboard testing and a standardized timed motor walk.
Study design: We conducted standardized assessments of motor function (Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and Beery Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration) at age 54 months in 283 children whose mothers were recruited in pregnancy from a smelter town and a non-lead-exposed town in Yugoslavia and who have been monitored twice yearly since birth.
This study aimed to standardize quantitative motor measures initially developed for adults and adapted to the evaluation of preschoolers.
We standardized McCarthy gross motor and finger tap scores within our study population (z-scores, mean = 0 ± 1).
In this study, we performed a secondary analysis of an existing dataset to examine the association of baseline executive function with the likelihood of falling using a prospective measurement of falls and standardized neuropsychological and motor testing.
We used standardized, validated measurements of motor function and cognitive function and a standardized definition of falls [ 36] There are limitations to our study.
In clinical practice we commonly experience that children start walking at later ages than the standards presented in the Alberta Infant Motor Scale AIMSS), the most frequently used standardized instrument of gross motor development in Norway.
Standardized distal distances for motor and sensory studies were used.
Third, a standardized scale of non-motor symptoms was not administered, which prevented further testing of convergent validity.
