The relationship between neuropsychological measures and self-care skills in patients with cerebrovascular lesions.
The present investigation examined the relationship between performance on the Michigan Neuropsychological Battery (MNB) and selected self-care skills in a group of patients with unilateral cerebrovascular lesions. Among MNB measures, left-sided somatosensory and motor functions were the best predictors of self-care skills, showing that in these stroke patients lower level cerebral functions mediated by the right hemisphere are more strongly related to the self-care skills examined than higher cerebral functions. Also, evidence that patients with cerebrovascular lesions in the left hemisphere performed better than patients with right hemisphere lesions in several self-care categories is further indication that right hemisphere processes have a special role to play in the mediation of these self-care activities. The research and clinical implications of these findings are noted.
Howard University Psychology, Department of Washington, DC 20059.
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Campbell
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Brown
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Schildroth
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Hastings
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Ford-Booker
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Lewis-Jack
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Adams
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A
Gadling
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Ellis
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Wood
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012648:Self Care