Project Details
Projekt
Complex motor skills in children and adolescents: maturational trajectories and developmental disorders (B02)
Subject Area
Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Term
since 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 431549029
Project B02 investigates the development of complex motor skills in children and adolescents. Based on the findings of the first funding period (simple button press movements), we now focus on the development of motor learning and the adaptation to changing environments and in social contexts, using kinematic tracking and mobile fNIRS/EEG. While Tic disorders serve as a model disease of enhanced stimulus-response binding, the impact of reduced executive control on motor adaptation is examined in subjects with ADHD. TMS interventions probe the causal role of key motor network hubs in action reprogramming, enhancing our understanding of motor skill development.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Universität zu Köln
Project Heads
Professor Dr. Stephan Bender; Professorin Dr. Kerstin Konrad
