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. 2014 Jul 7;5:116. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00116

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Copyright © 2014 Irvine, Ferguson, Mitchell, Beattie, Lin, Stuck, Huie, Nielson, Talbott, Inoue, Beattie and Bresnahan.

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Amendment: cereal adjustments (control). The rat is assessed for movements made by the impaired forelimb that are synchronized in time with successful manipulatory movements of the unimpaired forelimb, and that contribute to the proper manipulation of the cereal. These cereal adjustments can be defined as either: none – there are NO cereal adjustments made by the impaired forelimb. Exaggerated – movements by the shoulder and/or elbow and/or wrist of the impaired forelimb that cause a loss of contact between the volar surface of the impaired forepaw and the cereal, which DO NOT adjust (control) the cereal position or DO NOT contribute to the proper manipulation of the cereal by the volar surface of the forepaws. Subtle – movements by the shoulder, and/or elbow, and/or wrist of the impaired forelimb that may or may not momentarily cause a loss of contact between the volar surface of the impaired forepaw and the cereal, which DO adjust (control) the cereal position or DO contribute to the proper manipulation of the cereal by the volar surface of the forepaws. [If animals show both exaggerated and subtle proximal forelimb movements during eating, they are scored as having exaggerated movements, as these disappear with further recovery.] (Revisions of the IBB scale from the JoVE 2010 version are highlighted in italics.)