Motor impersistence: a right-hemisphere syndrome. Kertesz, A., Nicholson, I., Cancelliere, A., Kassa, K., & Black, S. Neurology, 35(5):662–666, 1985.
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We studied motor impersistence with a standardized clinical test of sustained actions, both in patients with acute focal stroke lesions, who were matched for age and size of lesion, and normal controls. Patients with right-sided lesions had significantly more impersistence than did those with left-sided lesions. The most discriminating tests were eye-closure, mouth-opening, tongue-protrusion, and gaze to the left. Right central and frontal lesions seemed to be more responsible for motor impersistence than were posterior or left-sided lesions. Although motor impersistence is sometimes seen with diffuse cerebral disease, it is also a sign of right-hemisphere lesions; the phenomenon is probably related to mechanisms of directed attention that are necessary to sustain motor activity.
@article{kertesz_motor_1985,
	title = {Motor impersistence: a right-hemisphere syndrome},
	volume = {35},
	doi = {10/grrssc},
	abstract = {We studied motor impersistence with a standardized clinical test of sustained actions, both in patients with acute focal stroke lesions, who were matched for age and size of lesion, and normal controls. Patients with right-sided lesions had significantly more impersistence than did those with left-sided lesions. The most discriminating tests were eye-closure, mouth-opening, tongue-protrusion, and gaze to the left. Right central and frontal lesions seemed to be more responsible for motor impersistence than were posterior or left-sided lesions. Although motor impersistence is sometimes seen with diffuse cerebral disease, it is also a sign of right-hemisphere lesions; the phenomenon is probably related to mechanisms of directed attention that are necessary to sustain motor activity.},
	number = {5},
	journal = {Neurology},
	author = {Kertesz, A. and Nicholson, I. and Cancelliere, A. and Kassa, K. and Black, S.E.},
	year = {1985},
	keywords = {\#nosource, Adult, Aged, Attention/physiology, Brain Diseases/diagnosis/*physiopathology, Cerebrovascular Disorders/diagnosis/*physiopathology, Dominance, Cerebral/*physiology, Female, Human, Male, Middle Age, Motor Activity/physiology, Neurologic Examination, Psychomotor Performance/*physiology, Support, Non-U.S. Gov't},
	pages = {662--666},
}

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