Posterior SMA Syndrome following subcortical stroke: Contralateral akinesia reversed by visual feedback
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Posterior SMA Syndrome following subcortical stroke: contralateral akinesia reversed by visual feedback.
BACKGROUND The supplementary motor area (SMA) plays a key role in motor programming and production and is involved in internally-cued movements. In neurological populations, SMA syndrome following a lesion to the "SMA proper" is characterized by transient impairment of voluntary movements and motor sequences. This syndrome is assumed to follow on from an interruption of the motor cortico-subcor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychologia
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0028-3932
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.004