Motor Learning of a Planning Task in Stroke Patients: the Maze Paradigm Measured Through Time and Error as Variables

Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00740402

GPalma

GPalma 123 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of acquiring a motor skill subject in post-stroke, comparing them with healthy subjects.

Full description

20 post-stroke patients were comprised to the experimental group (EG) and 20 health subjects were included to the control group (CG. Inclusion criteria: chronic stroke, single stroke event, lesion in anterior circulation, right handed subjects, MEEM over 23 points. The task consisted in a maze paradigm, made by pencil and paper, with the non affected side for EG and left upper extremity for CG. The instruction was given to the subjects to complete the task as fast as possible. The study consisted in three phases: acquisition (AQ)with 30 trials, transfer (TR, short retention (R1)and long term retention (R2 both with 5 trials.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 40 and 65
• Injury in territory of movement earlier, as shown by examination of image and finding medical neurologist
• Time of injury over 6 months
• Single vascular event
• Right handed, by applying the Inventory of Dominance Side of Edinburgh Mini mental with scores over 23 points

Exclusion criteria

• Aphasia of understanding
• Instability clinic
• Other neurological diseases associated (Parkinson's disease, dementias, Alzheimer)