Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (4): 503-509.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.04.15

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A Review of the Neural Mechanisms of Developmental Coordination Disorder

WANG Enguo   

  1. Henan University and Institute of Behavioral Psychology, Kaifeng 475004
  • Online:2015-07-15 Published:2015-07-15

Abstract: The developmental coordination disorder is a special developmental disorder which affects 5% to 8% school-age children and a remarkable feature of the disorder which also seriously affects the school-age children's academic performance and daily life is motor coordination difficulties. The developmental coordination disorder often coexists with other types of learning disabilities. The etiology of the developmental coordination disorder is very complex which is related to a certain degree of impaired visual space cognitive ability. Early subtle motor skills development and brain developmental process may have a overlap in time. In recent years, researchers have been trying to explore the neural basis of affecting the developmental coordination disorder and successively put forward some different neural associated hypotheses. These hypotheses mainly related to the parietal lobe, cerebellum corpus callosum, basal ganglia, white matter and other brain regions. The paper reviews the latest progress in this field and proposes the future research directions and problems that should be focused on.

Key words: Developmental coordination disorder(DCD), Cerebellum, Parietal lobe, Corpus callosum, Neural mechanisms

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  • B844
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