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Spatial neglect
The syndrome of visuospatial neglect is a common consequence of unilateral brain injury. It is most often associated with stroke and is more severe and persistent following right hemisphere damage, with reported frequencies in the acute stage of up to 80%. Neglect is primarily a disorder of attentio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26023203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2015-001115 |
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description | The syndrome of visuospatial neglect is a common consequence of unilateral brain injury. It is most often associated with stroke and is more severe and persistent following right hemisphere damage, with reported frequencies in the acute stage of up to 80%. Neglect is primarily a disorder of attention whereby patients characteristically fail to orientate, to report or to respond to stimuli located on the contralesional side. Neglect is usually caused by large strokes in the middle cerebral artery territory and is heterogeneous, such that most patients do not manifest every feature of the syndrome. A number of treatments may improve neglect, but there is no widely accepted universal approach to therapy. Although most patients recover spontaneously, the evidence suggests that they continue to have significant cognitive impairments, particularly relating to attention. |
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spelling | pubmed-46022452015-10-21 Spatial neglect Li, Korina Malhotra, Paresh A Pract Neurol Review The syndrome of visuospatial neglect is a common consequence of unilateral brain injury. It is most often associated with stroke and is more severe and persistent following right hemisphere damage, with reported frequencies in the acute stage of up to 80%. Neglect is primarily a disorder of attention whereby patients characteristically fail to orientate, to report or to respond to stimuli located on the contralesional side. Neglect is usually caused by large strokes in the middle cerebral artery territory and is heterogeneous, such that most patients do not manifest every feature of the syndrome. A number of treatments may improve neglect, but there is no widely accepted universal approach to therapy. Although most patients recover spontaneously, the evidence suggests that they continue to have significant cognitive impairments, particularly relating to attention. BMJ Publishing Group 2015-10 2015-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4602245/ /pubmed/26023203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2015-001115 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Review Li, Korina Malhotra, Paresh A Spatial neglect |
title | Spatial neglect |
title_full | Spatial neglect |
title_fullStr | Spatial neglect |
title_full_unstemmed | Spatial neglect |
title_short | Spatial neglect |
title_sort | spatial neglect |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26023203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2015-001115 |
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