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Monocular patching affects inattention but not perseveration in spatial neglect

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Monocular patching might improve perceptual-attentional, not motor-intentional deficits in a patient with chronic post-stroke left spatial neglect. Performing a line-cancellation task, his omission errors were associated with a perceptual-attentional 'where' deficit, while perseverative errors were associated with 'aiming' motor-intentional bias. Contralesional patching had no effect on the omissions (p = .871), whereas ipsilesional patching reduced left-sided omissions compared with the unpatched condition (p = .016). Neither patching condition altered perseverative errors. Further research is needed to examine whether targeting treatments to spatial neglect symptoms (omissions, perseveration) results in improved outcomes.

Source: Neurocase

DOI: 10.1080/13554790902776888

Authors: S. Khurshid, H. Longin, G.P. Crucian, A.M. Barrett

Institutions: Kessler Foundation, Naval Medical Center San Diego, University of Canterbury

Language: English

Topic: Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke