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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Gait control: a specific subdomain of executive function?

I hadn't really considered executive function having too much control on gait, I thought it just initiated it and sent control to the pre-motor cortex to accomplish walking.
http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/pdf/1743-0003-9-12.pdf
ABSTRACT
Background: Few studies looked at the association between gait variability and executivesubdomains (ESD). The aim of this study was to examine the association between ESD (i.e., information updating and monitoring) and stride time variability among healthy older adults.
Methods: Seventy-eight healthy older adults (mean age 69.9±0.9 years, 59% women) were divided into 3 groups according to stride time variability (STV) tertiles while steady state walking. Coefficient of variation of stride time was used as a marker of STV. Scores on cognitive tests evaluating information updating and monitoring (Digit Span test), mental shifting (Trail Making Test part A and part B) and cognitive inhibition (Stroop Color Word test) were used as measures of ESD.
Results: The full adjusted and the stepwise backward logistic regression models showed that the highest tertile (i.e., the worst performance) of STV was only associated with lower Digit Span performance (Odds ratio=0.78 with P=0.020 and Odds ratio=0.81 with P=0.019).
Conclusions: Information updating and monitoring are associated with STV in the sample of studied participants, suggesting that walking may be a complex motor task depending specifically of this subdomain of executive functions.
Key words: Gait disorders; Cognition; Motor impairment; normal aging; Executive functions;
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2 comments:

  1. Rebecca DuttonFebruary 11, 2012 at 1:29 PM

    This is a perfect example of how two things can be correlated without one causing the other. Men who go bald on the top of their head are more likely to have a heart attack than men who have a receding hairline. That doesn't mean baldness causes heart attacks. It means that something causes both effects. Thank God walking is controlled by lower brain centers because walking and talking at the same time would be extremely difficult.

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  2. oc1deanFebruary 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM

    Thank God baldness doesn't cause heart attacks I would have been in danger since I was 20

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