David J Lin, Kimberly S Erler, Samuel B Snider, Anna K Bonkhoff, Julie A DiCarlo, Nicole Lam, Jessica Ranford, Kristin Parlman, Audrey Cohen, Jennifer Freeburn, Seth P Finklestein, Lee H Schwamm, Leigh R Hochberg, Steven C Cramer
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that cognitive demands influence motor performance during recovery from acute stroke, we tested acute stroke patients on two motor tasks with different cognitive demands and related task performance to cognitive impairment and neuroanatomic injury. METHODS: We assessed the contralesional and ipsilesional upper extremities of a cohort of 50 patients with weakness after unilateral acute ischemic stroke at three timepoints with two tasks: the Box & Blocks Test, a task with greater cognitive demand, and Grip Strength, a simple and ballistic motor task...
April 15, 2021: Neurology