Remote concussion history does not affect visually-guided reaching in young adult females

AIM: We examined the long-term effects of concussions in young adult females on visuomotor behavior during a visually-guided reaching task of various complexities. MATERIALS & METHODS: 20 females with a history of longer than 6 months since a concussion and 20 healthy females quickly and accurat...

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Autores principales: Fueger, Christopher, Sergio, Lauren E, Heuer, Sabine, Petrovska, Labina, Huddleston, Wendy E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Future Medicine Ltd 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6902312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31827882
http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/cnc-2019-0007
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Sumario:AIM: We examined the long-term effects of concussions in young adult females on visuomotor behavior during a visually-guided reaching task of various complexities. MATERIALS & METHODS: 20 females with a history of longer than 6 months since a concussion and 20 healthy females quickly and accurately performed a delayed reach to a previously cued target. RESULTS: As both cognitive and motor load increased, task performance decreased for both groups (p < 0.05). However, contrary to our primary hypothesis, no differences in task performance were found between the two experimental groups (p > 0.05). CONCLUSION: The young adult females with a remote history of concussion demonstrated no deficits in visuomotor behavior on an attention-mediated reaching task as compared with control participants.

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