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motor neuron

[′mōd·ər ′nu̇r‚än]
(neuroscience)
An efferent nerve cell. Also known as motoneuron.
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While the study indicates that prolonged prenatal exposure to SSRIs was associated with delayed motor development at age 3 years, the association was very weak, and only a few children had clinically significant impairment in motor development.
Aim: This study is aimed to investigate differences between cognitive, language and motor development of high-risk infants related to birth weight and gestational age.
The authors focus on the 'what' and 'how' of motor development and descriptions of motor development from conception through to emerging adult, comparing how children acquire their changing and growing repertoires of movement with the resources that they have.
Topics covered include how to increase children's vocabulary through conversations and storybook time, working with developmentally delayed infants, exercises to aid fine motor development in preschoolers as a precursor to writing skills, how to work poetry and nonfiction into the classroom, and much more.
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In order to sit up, a baby must pass through a series of stages of motor development. Each acts as a building block for co-ordination in later life.
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