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Neuropsychological identification of motor problems: Can we learn something from the feet and legs that hands and arms will not tell us?

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The degree of structural and functional specialization that differentiates between upper and lower limb use in humans is quite unparalleled among primates. It is argued that less neural resources are devoted to leg and foot control than to arm and hand control, and that this aspect of lower limb innervation, together with the uniquely restricted use of the lower limb, renders lower limb function more sensitive to general neural insult. In addition, the status of leg and foot control differs from that of arm and hand control both early in life and during the later years of decline.

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Peters, M. Neuropsychological identification of motor problems: Can we learn something from the feet and legs that hands and arms will not tell us?. Neuropsychol Rev 1, 165–183 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01108716

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