We present a patient with a subacute asymmetrical sensorimotor polyneuropathy. The pathological features were predominantly loss of nerve fibers, axonal degeneration and healed vasculitis. The epineural vessels were involved, while endoneurial capillaires were preserved. Muscle biopsy revealed neurogenic features with normal blood vessels. After three years, motor and sensory function was almos...

THE neuroscience of haptics has made many breakthroughs over the last six or so decades and these scientific advances are now being leveraged to develop new therapies for patients suffering from sensorimotor disorders and new technologies to improve our everyday lives. This special section features a broad range of studies, some of which advance our basic understanding of haptics, others develo...

Trichobezoars are gastric concretions composed of hair, usually found in long haired girls or young women [1]. Definite correlation exists between bezoars and psychotic illness and disorders affecting gut motility especially gastroparesis diabetecorum [2, 3, 4]. Most bezoars have come to the attention of surgeons when the bezoar passed from the stomach to the small intestine and caused obstruct...

Effects of environmental factors may be transmitted to the following generation, and cause neuropsychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder in offspring. Enhanced synaptic plasticity induced by enrichment also transmitted. We here test hypothesis that effects brain injury pregnant animals produce neurological deficits Unilateral (UBI) ablation hindlimb sen...

Abstract According to established background knowledge, playing is essential in human development and a power remediation tool clinical populations. In interventions, the beneficial roles of have often been sought investigated specific features game, rather than positive emotions generated by playing. However, regardless game specifications, cognitive enhancement could be driven linked play. Es...

Introduction: Quantitative assessments of the effects induced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) are crucial to develop more efficient and personalized treatments. Objectives: To determine the spectral powers of different subbands of EEG correlated with treatment response to rTMS.   Materials and Methods: the spectral powers of different...

In Action in Perception and “Experience without the Head,” Alva Noë argues that what is perceived emerges as one actively moves about in the environment. Moreover, the role of action is directly relevant for perceptual content, as it is enacted into existence. Noë’s goal is to develop an account of perceptual experience that supports an externalism in which perceptual experience does not need t...

In this paper, I explore the notion of sensorimotor event as the building block of sensorimotor cognition. A sensorimotor event is presented here as a neurally controlled event that recruits those processes and elements that are necessary to address the demands of the situation in which the individual is involved. The notion of sensorimotor event is intended to subsume the dynamic, embodied, an...

BACKGROUND Sensory and motor system dysfunctions have been documented in a proportion of patients with acute whiplash associated disorders (WAD). Sensorimotor incongruence may occur and hence, may explain pain and other sensations in the acute stage after the trauma. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed at (1) evaluating whether a visually mediated incongruence between sensory feedback and moto...

Lorrie Henderson, PhD, is Chief Clinical Officer, ChildHelp, Scottsdale, AZ. The purpose of this pilot study was to establish a model for randomized controlled trial research, identify appropriate outcome measures, and address the effectiveness of sensory integration (SI) interventions in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Children ages 6–12 with ASD were randomly assigned to a fine...