Motor learning and performance in schizophrenia and aging: two different patterns of decline.

ABSTRACT: Psychomotor slowing has consistently been observed in schizophrenia, however research on motor learning in schizophrenia is limited. Additionally, motor learning in schizophrenia has never been compared with the waning of motor learning abilities in the elderly. Therefore, in an extensive study, 30 individuals with schizophrenia, 30 healthy age-matched controls and 30 elderly participants were compared on sensorimotor learning tasks including sequence learning and adaptation (both explicit and implicit), as well as tracking and aiming. This paper presents new findings on an explicit motor sequence learning task, an explicit verbal learning task and a simple aiming task and summarizes all previously published findings of this large investigation. Individuals with schizophrenia and elderly h

SUBMITTER: Hulstijn W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10972913 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature