Moving from stroke to development : a deconstruction of skilled reaching in humans
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Date
2008
Authors
Foroud, Afra
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
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Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Neuroscience, c2008
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to describe the organization of the movements of skilled
reaching. Our knowledge of reaching behaviour has been limited to an understanding of
specific actions. Results from this thesis describe how reaching is the product of
interactions of various parameters that assemble in an integrative way in ontogeny, yet
can become dismantled on one level, or generally, throughout multiple levels of what
constitutes the behaviour after stroke in adults. These findings demonstrate that skilled
reaching constitutes motor parameters that may not be visible in a healthy adult, but that
function through development, and by inhibitory systems in adults, to create a smooth
and finely articulated action. An examination of the movement patterns of reaching
within the full context of the behaviour can be applied to therapeutic strategies for motor
disorders and, most importantly, deepen our understanding of the relations between
reaching and cognition.
Description
xiii, 254 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Keywords
Cerebrovascular disease , Cerebrovascular disease -- Research , Cerebrovascular disease -- Treatment , Motor ability -- Research , Dissertations, Academic