Motor control

Paralysis (: paralyses; also known as plegia) is a loss of motor function in one or more muscles. Paralysis can also be accompanied by a loss of feeling (sensory loss) in the affected area if there is sensory damage. In the United States, roughly 1 in 50 people have been diagnosed with some form of permanent or transient paralysis. The word "paralysis" derives from the Greek παράλυσις, meaning "disabling of the nerves" from παρά (para) meaning "beside, by" and λύσις (lysis) meaning "making loose". A paralysis accompanied by involuntary tremors is usually called "palsy".

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type of neuron associated with empathy

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Apraxia is a motor disorder caused by damage to the brain (specifically the posterior parietal cortex or corpus callosum), which causes difficulty with motor planning to perform tasks or movements. The nature of the damage determines the disorder's severity, and the absence of sensory loss or paralysis helps to explain the level of difficulty. Children may be born with apraxia; its cause is unknown, and symptoms are usually noticed in the early stages of development. Apraxia occurring later in life, known as acquired apraxia, is typically caused by traumatic brain injury, stroke, dementia, Alz

neurodevelopmental condition

set of cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control of behavior

physiological sense related to balance

learned ability to cause a predetermined movement outcome with maximum certainty

predictive model of human movement

process and the result of the interaction of various perceptual, control, regulatory and motor elements to form an orderly, purposeful sequence of movements

postural model that keeps track of limb position

organization of sensory information from a person's body and the external world

Synchronized patterns of electrical activity in the part of the brain that controls voluntary movement

part of the central nervous system that is involved with movement

regulation of movement in organisms that possess a nervous system

coordination of small muscles, particularly of the hands and fingers, with the eyes

biological neural circuit that produces rhythmic outputs in the absence of rhythmic input

Any process in which an organism acquires a novel neuromuscular action or movement as the result of experience.

coordinated control of eye movement with hand movement and processing of visual input to guide reaching and grasping along with the use of proprioception of the hands to guide the eyes

process by which people translate thoughts into verbal words

difficulty with accessing executive functions such as organization, planning ahead, and self-monitoring

baseball pitch

In neurology, the Bereitschaftspotential or BP (German for "readiness potential"), also called the pre-motor potential or readiness potential (RP), is a measure of activity in the motor cortex and supplementary motor area of the brain leading up to voluntary muscle movement. The BP is a manifestation of cortical contribution to the pre-motor planning of volitional movement. It was first recorded and reported in 1964 by Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Lüder Deecke at the University of Freiburg in Germany. In 1965 the full publication appeared after many control experiments.

operation of opposing sets of muscles

mental and behavioral disorder involves a slowing-down of thought and a reduction of physical movements in an individual

Mental process in which one rehearses a given action

sensation of losing balance or dizziness when stepping onto an escalator which is not working

Relationship between cognitive functions and physical movement

subjective awareness of initiating, executing, and controlling one's own volitional actions

type of multispeed induction motor

computing concept

thumb|upright|Approximate location of the solar plexus Getting the wind knocked out of you is an idiom that refers to the difficulty of breathing and temporary paralysis of the diaphragm caused by phrenospasm, the reflexive diaphragmatic spasm that occurs when sudden force is applied to the upper central region of the abdomen and the solar plexus. This often happens in contact sports, from a forceful blow to the abdomen, or by falling on the back.

neural process that simulates the response of the motor system in order to estimate the outcome of a motor command

oscillatory idle rhythm of synchronized electric brain activity