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Functional and Dysfunctional Aspects of the Cerebral Cortex

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Diagnosis of oral motor disorders is a professional skill. Most Orthodontists are familiar with the many types of oral motor behaviors and their dysfunctions, such as normal chewing, speech, improper bites, malocclusions of the teeth and neuromuscular and skeletal imbalances, but have perhaps not thought too much about the underlying processes or mechanisms that regulate these behaviors and which may eventually provide them with a rationale for correcting dysfunction.

The neural events pertaining to normal or abnormal oral function are registered in the cerebral cortex at all stages of development of the mouth, reflecting experience-driven changes in the brain. This ability of the brain for self-regulation of its structure and function according to oral sensory information processing and learning–memory capacity is called plasticity of the brain.

In this chapter special interest is focused on the oral information processing, and the chapter provides a conceptual framework to understand the ways the brain regulates oral motor behavior and gives a rationale of appropriate treatment recommendations through neuroplasticity.

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Pimenidis, M.Z. (2009). Functional and Dysfunctional Aspects of the Cerebral Cortex. In: The Neurobiology of Orthodontics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00396-7_2

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