title: Developmental coordination disorder: core sensori-motor deficits, neurobiology and etiology.
abstract: Among developmental disorders, DCD is one of the least studied and less understood one (Bishop, 2010). This review summarizes the current understanding of developmental coordination disorder in neuropsychology with a focus mainly on high level sensorimotor impairments, its etiology and its neural bases. We summarize these core deficits in the framework of an influent motor control model (Blakemore et al., 2002). DCD has several environmental risk factors which probably interplay with genetic factors but those have not been sufficiently identified. High-level sensori-motor deficits are probably multifactorial in DCD and involve predictive coding deficits as well as weaknesses in perceptual and sensory integration. At the brain level, DCD is associated with impaired structure and functions within the motor network. Throughout the review we highlight exciting new findings as well as potential future lines of research to provide a more comprehensive understanding of this disorder.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive, CNRS, UMR 5229, 67 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron, France; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ESPE, Lyon, France. Electronic address: alice.gomez@isc.cnrs.fr.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gomez
authors.affiliation: Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive, CNRS, UMR 5229, 67 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron, France. Electronic address: sirigu@isc.cnrs.fr.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sirigu
mesh_terms: D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D019957:Motor Skills Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology*; D009446:Neurobiology
keywords: Brain bases; Clumsiness; Dyspraxia; Etiology; Genetic; Motor disability; Neuropsychology