International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Open Access
ISSN: 2329-9096
ISSN: 2329-9096
Barbara Tomasino
IRCCS "E. Medea", Polo Regionale del Friuli Venezia Giulia,
Via della Bontà, 7, San Vito al Tagliamento (PN)
Italy
Research Article
Recovering and Worsening at Design Fluency in 22 Neurosurgical Patients: Preimmediately Post-surgery and Follow-up Testing
Author(s): Barbara Tomasino, Dario Marin, Eleonora Madotto, Franco Fabbro and Miran SkrapBarbara Tomasino, Dario Marin, Eleonora Madotto, Franco Fabbro and Miran Skrap
The five-point test (FPT) measures the ability to voluntarily generate non-verbal novel patterns. We investigated how this ability can be impaired or improved before immediately after brain surgery, and at follow-up. Twenty-two patients undergoing neurosurgery in the right hemisphere performed the FPT at T0 (pre-), T1 (1 week post-), and T2 (follow-up at 5 months after surgery). Significant improvements at T1 (in patients who had a deficit at T0) measured recovering (N=3/22); in addition there were patients who become pathological (8/22) and subjects who presented with the same degree of impairment as observed at T0 (stable, 1/22). Similarly, at T2 (4-5 months after surgery) we measured the effect of post-op reorganization: there were patients (5/22) who had been pathological at T1 and recovered at T2. Lesions overlapped in the right body of the corpus callosum/anterior cingulum refle.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2329-9096.1000423