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Motor and Perceptual Recovery in Adult Patients with Mild Intellectual Disability.

Mariagiovanna CantoneMaria A CatalanoGiuseppe LanzaGaetano La DelfaRaffaele FerriManuela PennisiRita BellaGiovanni PennisiAlessia Bramanti
Published in: Neural plasticity (2018)
Multimodal integrated interventions targeting visual-perceptual abilities and motor skills are an effective neurorehabilitative approach in adult patients with mild ID. Motor learning and memory-mediated mechanisms of neural plasticity might underlie the observed recovery, suggesting the presence of plastic adaptive changes even in the adult brain with ID.
Keyphrases
  • intellectual disability
  • autism spectrum disorder
  • working memory
  • physical activity
  • brain injury