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Perception of motor strength and stimulus magnitude are correlated in stroke patients.

Taylor-Cooke PA, Ricci R, Baños JH, Zhou X, Woods AJ, Mennemeier MS

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA.

The authors examined whether perception of contralateral limb strength is altered and whether perception of strength correlates with perception of stimulus intensity (magnitude) in a prospective sample of patients with unilateral right (RHL: n = 13) and left (LHL: n = 6) hemisphere lesions due to stroke. Patients with RHL tended to overestimate strength and patients with LHL tended to underestimate strength; both patterns were highly correlated with altered perception of stimulus magnitude.

Published 9 May 2006 in Neurology, 66(9): 1444-56.
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