Developmental Coordination Disorder
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W061
Diagnosis: Developmental Coordination Disorder
US Patients:
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M4;W
Age Onset: Child
Brain Area:
Symptoms: children’s poor muscular coodination that most of them grow out of, poor short-term memory for procedures
Progression: (Jim Lohr: Apparently this is primarily with coordination and use of arms, wrists and hands.)
Causes: 50% have ADHD, may be “oversensitive” to textures, touch, hearing, etc. , poor visual-spatial memory
Medications:
Therapies: physical therapy and occupational therapy
Youtube Video: Developmental Coordination Disorder
Youtube Video:
The Adolescent with DCD
Youtube Video:
My Friend, Josh, Has DCD.
Amazon or Library Book: Dyspraxia: A Parent’s Guide . .
Click the book to link or buy from Amazon.
Support Group: dyspraxia.org (Dyspraxia includes children
having difficulty coordinating motor skills and fine motor skills.)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- Developmental coordination disorder and epilepsyby Maria Esposito on December 20, 2024
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- Stable asynchrony? Association between borderline personality traits and interpersonal asynchronyby Camilla Gregorini on December 19, 2024
Interpersonal coordination processes facilitate interpersonal synchrony through a continuous mutual adaption and corepresentation of self and others' actions. Such a process has been found to enhance prosocial behaviors, affiliation, and trust. While research has investigated the general underlying cognitive and social mechanisms that facilitate interpersonal synchrony, much less is known about how interpersonal impairments influence it in various psychopathological conditions-such as borderline...
- Short report on a 6-week at-home exergaming intervention to improve balance in children with developmental coordination disorderby C Harkness-Armstrong on December 19, 2024
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: These findings suggest that children with DCD can learn through repeated exposure to challenging situations, regardless whether training is given. However, only the training group were able to transfer these improvements to the MABC-2 balance assessment. This may suggest the intervention exposed children to increased movement variations which could be transferred to a different task.
- Therapeutic effect of cyclosporine A-loading TPGS micelles on a mouse model of LPS-induced neuroinflammationby Fabiola Guareschi on December 19, 2024
Neuroinflammation is an undoubted hallmark of neurodegenerative processes characterized by memory impairment, loss of coordination and muscle strength in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis as well as depressive disorders. Cyclosporine A (CSA) has already been identified as a promising neuroprotective peptide, due to its well-known anti-inflammatory properties. Herein, CSA was encapsulated into α-tocopherol polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS)...