title: Laterality affects spontaneous recovery of contralateral hand motor function following motor cortex injury in rhesus monkeys.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to test whether brain laterality influences spontaneous recovery of hand motor function after controlled brain injuries to arm areas of M1 and lateral premotor cortex (LPMC) of the hemisphere contralateral to the preferred hand in rhesus monkeys. We hypothesized that monkeys with stronger hand preference would exhibit poorer recovery of skilled hand use after such brain injury. Degree of handedness was assessed using a standard dexterity board task in which subjects could use either hand to retrieve small food pellets. Fine hand/digit motor function was assessed using a modified dexterity board before and after the M1 and LPMC lesions in ten monkeys. We found a strong negative relationship between the degree of handedness and the recovery of manipulation skill, demonstrating that higher hand preference was associated with poorer recovery of hand fine motor function. We also observed that monkeys with larger lesions within M1 and LPMC had greater initial impairment of manipulation and poorer recovery of reaching skill. We conclude that monkeys with a stronger hand preference are likely to show poorer recovery of contralesional hand fine motor skill after isolated brain lesions affecting the lateral frontal motor areas. These data may be extended to suggest that humans who exhibit weak hand dominance, and perhaps individuals who use both hands for fine motor tasks, may have a more favorable potential for recovery after a unilateral stroke or brain injury affecting the lateral cortical motor areas than individuals with a high degree of hand dominance.
authors: Department of Health and Human Physiology, Motor Control Laboratories, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. warren-darling@uiowa.edu
authors: Warren G
authors: WG
authors: Darling
authors: Nicole
authors: N
authors: Helle
authors: Marc A
authors: MA
authors: Pizzimenti
authors: Diane L
authors: DL
authors: Rotella
authors: Stephanie M
authors: SM
authors: Hynes
authors: Jizhi
authors: J
authors: Ge
authors: Kimberly S
authors: KS
authors: Stilwell-Morecraft
authors: Robert J
authors: RJ
authors: Morecraft
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D020127:Recovery of Function
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