Narrative ReviewNeurorehabilitation and neural repair2019

Automated Forelimb Tasks for Rodents: Current Advantages and Limitations, and Future Promise.

Anil Sindhurakar, Samuel D Butensky, Jason B Carmel

PMID 31189409

WHAT IT FOUND

No clinical finding to act on.

This is a rodent forelimb testing methods viewpoint, not a patient study.

What this paper is

This is a Point of View article comparing manual and automated rodent forelimb movement tests. It does not report a patient study, therapy trial, or clinical outcome, so there is no finding to act on.

Declared interests

JBC served as a consultant to Vulintus, Inc. on a grant that helped develop the knob supination task, but owns no shares and has no financial interest. AS and SDB declare no conflicts.

The easy way to misread this

Do not read this as evidence that automated rodent tasks improve patient therapy. It reviews testing methods, not clinical outcomes.

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The study

Certainty of evidence
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    Anil Sindhurakar, Samuel D Butensky, Jason B Carmel Automated Forelimb Tasks for Rodents: Current Advantages and Limitations, and Future Promise. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair. 2019.

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