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SUBMITTER: Varjacic A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181803 | biostudies-other | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Varjačić Andreja A Mantini Dante D Levenstein Jacob J Slavkova Elitsa D ED Demeyere Nele N Gillebert Céline R CR
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 20171122
Impairments in executive functions are common in stroke survivors, both in the acute and in the chronic phase. However, little is known about the underlying lesion neuroanatomy of these deficits. This study aimed to elucidate the pattern of brain damage underlying executive dysfunction in a large and acute stroke cohort. Executive set-switching deficits were evaluated by a shape-based analogue of the Trail Making Test (from the Oxford Cognitive Screen) in a consecutive sample of 144 stroke patie ...[more]