Don’t neglect ‘neglect’- an update on post stroke neglect

Rehabilitation of neglect: an update.

Spatial neglect is a characteristic sign of damage to the right hemisphere and is typically characterized by a failure to respond to stimuli on the left side. With about a third of stroke victims showing initial signs of neglect, it is a frequent but also one of the most disabling neurological syndromes. Despite partial recovery in the first months after stroke one third of these patients remai...

The neglect of "child abuse and neglect".

Allocentric neglect strongly associated with egocentric neglect.

Following brain injury, many patients experience egocentric spatial neglect, where they fail to respond to stimuli on the contralesional side of their body. On the other hand, allocentric, object-based neglect refers to the symptom of ignoring the contralesional side of objects, regardless of the objects' egocentric position. There is an established tradition for considering these two phenomena...

Intentional neglect.

The neglect syndrome has been defined as a failure to report, respond or orient to novel or meaningful stimuli presented to the side opposite of a brain lesion when this failure can not be attributed to elemental sensory (e.g., hemianopia) or motor (hemiplegia) deficits. This failure to report, respond or orient can be induced by attentional, representation-memory, and intentional deficits. The...

'Pseudo-neglect' in CRPS is closer to 'anti-neglect' than to classical hemi-neglect?

Attention can exert a powerful effect on the perception of pain sensations, so much so that distraction can have an analgesic effect on acute pain equal to that of opiates [21]. Spatial attention can modulate heat pain detection and discrimination, as demonstrated by studies in which a pain stimulus is presented following a cue, which is located either on the same side as the stimulus or on the...