Sensorimotor Impairment in the Elderly

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Section 1: Sensorimotor Integration.
• Nordic comparison of 75-year-olds -- sensory and psychomotor functions.
• Motor performance as a paradigm reflecting the aging process.
• Decline of psychomotor performance: calender or health?.
• The influence of aging on motor skill learning.
• The decline of spatial and temporal abilities with age.
• Age-related slowing.
• Aging and plasticity of the human motor system: evidence from positron emission tomography (PET).
• Section 2: Age Changes in Muscle.
• Myoelectric signs of muscle fatigue and physiological tremor from childhood to seniority.
• Muscle force generation and age: the role of sex hormones.
• What is the cause of the ageing atrophy? Assessment of the fiber type composition in whole human muscles.
• Section 3: Posture and Locomotion.
• Cognitive processes involved for maintaining postural stability while standing and walking.
• Mobility biomechanics in young and old healthy adults.
• Postural control in normal subjects and older women who have fallen.
• Postural responses of the elderly: comparisons with vestibular- deficit subjects.
• Modulations of gait in normal aging and in parkinson’s disease.
• Age-related changes in visually guided locomotion over different terrains: major issues.
• Optical flow as a factor in falling: the case for more research.
• Section 4: Neurological Diseases.
• Motor slowness in parkinson’s disease.
• Timing in perceptual and motor tasks in parkinson’s disease.
• Signal-to-noise ratio of handwriting size, force, and time: Cues to early markers of parkinson’s disease?.
• Procedural memory, motor skill and degenerative neurological disease.
• Effect of age, chronic diseases and parkinsonism on postural control.
• Section 5: Effects of Training.
• Improvements in balance in the elderly through training insensory organization abilities.
• Age and practice effects on force control of the thumb and index fingers in precision pinching and bilateral coordination.
• Sensorimotor adaptability in the elderly and disabled.
• Years of physical activity can affect simple and complex cognitive/motor speed in older adults.
• Author Index.