Lesion effect on motor recovery

The study was approved by the Ethics Review Board of the Loewenstein Hospital. All patients signed an informed consent prior to recruitment for the study. Normalized lesion data were used for voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) analyses, performed separately for patients with left and right hemisphere damages. Function of the hemiparetic upper limb was examined using the Fugl-Meyer test and the Box and Blocks test.