Influences of COVID-19 pandemic and the states of emergency on occupational therapy for physical disorders: A questionnaire survey in Hokkaido, Japan.

This study aimed to explore the influence of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) on occupational therapy (OT) for physical disorders, including changes in the assessment, treatment, other restrictions, and measures of OT. A questionnaire survey was conducted among occupational therapists working in Hokkaido, Japan, and 123 out of the 334 (36.8%) were from OT facilities that target physical disorders.

Did My Hand Move in a Mirror? Body Ownership Induced by the Mirror Hand Illusion.

Although the illusion that the mirror image of a hand or limb could be recognized as a part of one's body behind the mirror, the effect of adding tactile stimulation to this illusion remains unknown. We, therefore, examined how the timing of tactile stimulation affects the induction of body ownership on the mirror image. Twenty-one healthy, right-handed participants (mean age = 23.

The Pointing Errors in Optic Ataxia Reveal the Role of "Peripheral Magnification" of the PPC.

Interaction with visual objects in the environment requires an accurate correspondence between visual space and its internal representation within the brain. Many clinical conditions involve some impairment in visuo-motor control and the errors created by the lesion of a specific brain region are neither random nor uninformative. Modern approaches to studying the neuropsychology of action require powerful data-driven analyses and error modeling in order to understand the function of the lesioned areas.

[Clinical application of prism adaptation for patients with unilateral spatial neglect].

Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is defined as a failure to pay attention to the contralesional space due to the brain damage. As this symptom affects on many aspect of activities of daily living, a lots of therapeutic approaches were developed so far. Among them, prism adaptation (PA) technique is one of the most promising methods because it could produce generalized and long lasting after-effect and is effective even for chronic USN patients.

Assessing the streamlined Wolf motor function test as an outcome measure for stroke rehabilitation.

Objective: This study investigates the clinimetric properties of the streamlined Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT), a 6-item version of the performance time scale of the WMFT.

Methods: The streamlined WMFT, along with 2 criterion measures, the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) and the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS), were administered to 64 stroke patients before and after a 3-week intervention. Responsiveness was examined using the Wilcoxon signed rank test and standardized response mean (SRM).

Systematic retinotopic reaching error vectors in unilateral optic ataxia.

The main aim of this study is to determine the reference frame of the pointing errors that characterize patients with unilateral optic ataxia (OA). The reaching errors of seven patients with unilateral OA when pointing on a 2D matrix in peripheral vision were investigated in order to better qualify the reference frame of their deficit. Patients were asked to fixate a central target and then to point at one of 24 visual targets presented in their left or right peripheral visual fields, with their left or right hands.