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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 02:51Animal Preparation and Transfer to the Behavioral Laboratory
- 03:50Test 1: Modified Brinkman Board
- 05:20Test 2: Brinkman Box (with and without visual control)
- 07:03Test 3: Rotating the Brinkman Board
- 08:09Test 4: Reach and Grasp Drawer Task
- 09:53Results of Behavioral Tests of Manual Dexterity
- 14:51Conclusion
As manual dexterity is a prerogative mainly of primates, behavioral tasks have been developed in macaque monkeys. Four reach and grasp prehension tasks, measuring hand manipulation ability and force, allow to establish functional recovery after a lesion of the central nervous system and to test the effect of a treatment.
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Behavioral AssessmentManual DexterityNon-human PrimatesCorticospinal TractMotor AbilitySmall Objects ManipulationLesionMotor Cortical AreasCervical Cord LesionHand ParalysisTetraplegicHemiplegic PatientsFunctional RecoveryTherapeutic StrategiesCell TherapyInhibitory Axonal Growth MoleculesGrowth FactorsFeasibilityEfficacySecurityTreatmentCentral Nervous SystemRodentsMacaque Monkeys
