She said understanding better how motor skills are learned might, in turn, help with treating motor skill disorders such as dyspraxia.

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Those kinds of studies are more rare than straight correlative studies, but they exist and show strong evidence that learning a new motor skill (such as juggling, for example) leads to changes in the white matter of the motor cortex.

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Robbins was born with fine and gross motor-skill deficits.

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