QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE PROPRIOCEPTIVE ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES: A CASE STUDY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2013, Vol 11, Issue 3
Abstract
Proprioceptive Diagnostics for individual neuropsychological differences, as a basis for temperament and character, was developed within the Mira y Lopez tradition of myokinetic psychodiagnosis, and both theoretical and experimental works in the Mira y Lopez Laboratory of the University of Barcelona using new technologies. Some quantitative parameters observed in proprioceptive fine motor behaviour and other information (qualitative) can be used during test performance. The qualitative aspects of the graphomotor performance of a participant with multiple sclerosis (MS) was distinct from that of hundreds of other individuals with no such diagnosis.Proprioceptive Diagnosis of Temperament and Character (DP-TC) was used to observe fine motor behaviour in proprioceptive test conditions. The size and spatial deviations of a participant’s performance were distinguished from models, with and without vision, whereas a qualitative analysis (global graphical behavior) provided important complementary information.In the lineograms of left hand (right hemisphere) in frontal movement in the proprioceptive sensory condition, the linearity of lines was disrupted: the subject drew non-linear forms, curves, sometimes figureeights, and in parallels, he drew intersected lines instead.If quantitative parameters are important in order to obtain the general individual neuropsychological profile, qualitative information regarding fine motor behaviour in proprioceptive sensory conditions could provide a specific pattern of importance in preliminary neurological examinations, and at lower cost. Also, this examination could help medical workers to discover the hidden patterns of any neurological pathology, and psychologists to identify any specific individual organization in proprioceptive spatial perception.
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Liudmila Liutsko, Jose Tous
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