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SUBMITTER: Sansare A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6534353 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sansare Ashwini A Zampieri Cris C Alter Katharine K Stanley Christopher C Farhat Nicole N Keener Lee Ann LA Porter Forbes F
Journal of child neurology 20180101 1
This is the first study to objectively measure gait, balance, and upper limb coordination in a group of patients with NPC1 and compare the results to age and gender matched controls. This is also the first study to report effect sizes in these measures. Spatiotemporal gait analysis, static and dynamic posturography, and upper limb reaching motion analysis were performed. The findings showed that the NPC1 subjects had statistically significant deficits on 12 out of the 16 parameters investigated ...[more]