International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Barbara Tomasino

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• 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 Skrap Barbara 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

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