Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 487-493 , October 2010

Role of the premotor cortex in leg selection and anticipatory postural adjustments associated with a rapid stepping task in patients with stroke

  • Wen-Hsing Chang

      Affiliations

    • School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Department of Physical Therapy, Taipei Medical University-Shuan Ho Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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  • Pei-Fang Tang

      Affiliations

    • School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Physical Therapy Center, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Floor 3, No. 17, Xuzhou Rd., Zhongzheng District, Taipei City 100, Taiwan, ROC. Tel.: +886 2 3366 8128; fax: +886 2 3366 8161.
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  • Yao-Hung Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Imaging, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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  • Kwan-Hwa Lin

      Affiliations

    • School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Physical Therapy Center, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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  • Ming-Jang Chiu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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  • Shen-Hsing Annabel Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, College of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Received 13 January 2009 ,Revised 23 June 2010 ,Accepted 12 July 2010.

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PII: S0966-6362(10)00211-0

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.07.007

Gait & Posture
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 487-493 , October 2010