A behavioral method for identifying recovery and compensation: Hand use in a preclinical stroke model using the single pellet reaching task

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 950-967

  Alaverdashvili, Mariam ^a,b   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioral measures; Compensatory movements after stroke; Motor and cognitive abnormalities; Reach to eat movement; Restitution of function following stroke; Skilled hand movement and compensation; Skilled hand movement and recovery

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMETRY; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPENSATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE;

EID: 84877103607     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.03.026     Document Type: Review

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