Title |
Differences in somatosensory processing due to dominant hemispheric motor impairment in cerebral palsy
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-15-10 |
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Authors |
Inmaculada Riquelme, Iván Padrón, Ignasi Cifre, Ana M González-Roldán, Pedro Montoya |
Abstract |
Although cerebral palsy (CP) is usually defined as a group of permanent motor disorders due to non-progressive disturbances in the developing fetal or infant brain, recent research has shown that CP individuals are also characterized by altered somatosensory perception, increased pain and abnormal activation of cortical somatosensory areas. The present study was aimed to examine hemispheric differences on somatosensory brain processing in individuals with bilateral CP and lateralized motor impairments compared with healthy controls. Nine CP individuals with left-dominant motor impairments (LMI) (age range 5-28 yrs), nine CP individuals with right-dominant motor impairments (RMI) (age range 7-29 yrs), and 12 healthy controls (age range 5-30 yrs) participated in the study. Proprioception, touch and pain thresholds, as well as somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) elicited by tactile stimulation of right and left lips and thumbs were compared. |
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