User:DanielJanko/sandbox

I did not see where you evaluated an article in your sandbox as part of this week's assignment? Liz

Article Evaluation

This training course helped me to refresh my memory on how to cite properly and how to avoid plagiarism. It was also great to learn how articles on Wikipedia are evaluated based on their perceived quality and what these different evaluations mean.

Chosen Article: Stroke Recovery

I believe that almost every fact is referenced with appropriate sources. However, when the article talks about Constrained-induced therapy, it mentions that it was developed by Rober Oven. I don't think that this is correct because even the "original article" that the Stroke recovery article mentions claims that the development of CI therapy was the work of Dr. Edward Taub.

All the information mentioned in the article is relevant to the topic of stroke recovery and none of the information is biased.

I was not able to spot any plagiarism or close paraphrasing.

There is one crucial set of information missing in this article. Since it is called 'stroke recovery', I think that it should include both, physical and cognitive therapy. Nevertheless, this article only includes information about physical therapy after stroke.

Cognitive rehabilitation after stroke is a young field and that is probably the reason why there is no information about it it.

Cognitive impairment and therapy

Cognitive impairment is indisputably one of the biggest threats following stroke. The prevalence of cognitive impairment is quite high, however, according to Sun et al.,

it varies based on the population within which the stroke has occurred. Many different causes can contribute to the attribution (WORD CHOICE? ATTRIBUTION?) of cognitive impairment after stroke. Among the most common are lesions on specific anatomical structures, such as the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex, white matter lesions, and cerebral microbleeds.

There has not been any medical therapy (WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY MEDICAL THERAPY?) developed yet to treat cognitive deficits resulting from strokes. Although some drugs have shown to be helpful with executive function problems, neither of them has demonstrated significant effects on activities of daily living. Thus, it is important that more work is done on pharmacotherapy and its potential benefits for patients suffering from cognitive decline after stroke.

There has been research going on, examing (SP) (SUGGEST: "ongoing research has examined") the use of cognitive therapy which consists of intense cognitive training. One of the biggest problems of cognitive training is its actual transfer to the real world (EXPAND ON WHAT THIS MEANS). For this reason, scientific teams have been trying to develop a reliable transfer package that could be used to train and improve instrumental activities of daily living. (SUGGEST: "Daily instrumental activities can be...") Instrumental activities if daily can be understood as those activities that allow an individual to live independently. Even though they are not necessary for living, being able to perform them (SUGGEST: "these activities may significantly...") can significantly improve the quality of life. (SUGGEST: "Examples of these activities include:") These activities include cooking, transportation, laundry, and managing finances.

[1] Sun, J.-H., Tan, L., & Yu, J.-T. (2014). Post-stroke cognitive impairment: epidemiology, mechanisms and management. Annals of Translational Medicine, 2(8), 80. https://doi.org/10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2014.08.05

[2] Blake, J., Mitchell, B., McKay, S., Uswatte, G., & Taub, E. (2020). Development of the Transfer Package for Constraint Induced Cognitive Training: Transferring Cognitive Improvements from the Laboratory to the Real World. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 101(11), e35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2020.09.100

[3] Guo, H. J., & Sapra, A. (2020). Instrumental Activity of Daily Living. StatPearls, 1. https://doi.org/10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2014.08.09