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Nicola Smania
Researcher at University of Verona
Publications - 234
Citations - 10620
Nicola Smania is an academic researcher from University of Verona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rehabilitation & Spasticity. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 207 publications receiving 9303 citations.
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Use of NeuroEyeCoach™ to Improve Eye Movement Efficacy in Patients with Homonymous Visual Field Loss.
TL;DR: NEC can be used as an effective rehabilitation tool to develop compensatory strategies in patients with visual field deficits after brain injury and improvements in patients were significantly greater than those in a group of healthy adults.
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Production of subject-verb agreement, tense, mood, and negation in Italian agrammatic aphasia
Fyndanis,Carlo Semenza,Rita Capasso,Marialuisa Gandolfi,S De Pellegrin,Giorgio Arcara,Francesca Burgio,A Maculan,Nicola Smania,Gabriele Miceli +9 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the ability of Italian-speaking agrammatic individuals to produce subject-verb agreement, tense, mood, and sentential negation, and found that subject-specific characteristics (e.g., site/type/volume of brain damage, type/severity of language impairment, education, age) and language-specific properties of functional categories may interact in determining the way in which (morpho)syntactic impairments manifest themselves across Agrammatic speakers and languages.
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Effect of balance training on postural instability in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
Nicola Smania,Elisabetta Corato,Michele Tinazzi,Clementina Stanzani,Antonio Fiaschi,Paolo Girardi,Marialuisa Gandolfi +6 more
TL;DR: A program of balance training can improve PI in patients with PD and showed significant improvements in all outcome measures, except for the UPDRS and the H&Y scale.
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Motor disinhibition in affected and unaffected hemisphere in the early period of recovery after stroke.
TL;DR: Investigation in affected and unaffected motor areas in the acute stage after stroke and during the early period of recovery found changes in motor disinhibition on unaffected side also are related to motor recovery.
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Pathophysiology of Motor Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease as the Rationale for Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation.
Francesca Magrinelli,Alessandro Picelli,Pierluigi Tocco,Angela Federico,L. Roncari,Nicola Smania,Giampietro Zanette,Stefano Tamburin +7 more
TL;DR: A review of the neuropathology, neuropharmacology, and neurophysiology of motor dysfunction of Parkinson's disease can be found in this article, where the authors focus on classical notions and recent insights.