Motor recovery after stroke depends on intact sustained attention: a 2-year follow-up study.
Neuropsychology
; 11(2): 290-5, 1997 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-9110335
ABSTRACT
The functional recovery of 47 right-brain-damaged stroke patients was studied over a 2-year period. The researchers hypothesized that sustained attention capacity should predict the degree of motor and functional recovery over this period because of a proposed privileged role of sustained attention in learning-based recovery of function. As predicted, significant correlations were found between sustained attention capacity at 2 months and functional status (including the Barthel Index) at 2 years. This relationship was shown to exist independently of 2-month functional status. Furthermore, compared with a left-brain-damaged group of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) patients, the right-brain CVA group did not recover functional ability as well over the 2-year period. This increasing difference in functional status over a 2-year period was mirrored by an emerging difference in sustained attention capacity, in favor of the left-brain CVA group.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Atenção
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Transtornos Cerebrovasculares
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Atividade Motora
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Neuropsychology
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PSICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
1997
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido