Rehabilitation for Patients with Unilateral Spatial Neglect

Hearing and music in unilateral spatial neglect neuro-rehabilitation

Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is an attention deficit in the contralesional side of space which occurs after a cerebral stroke, mainly located in the right hemisphere. USN patients are disabled in all daily activities. USN is an important negative prognostic factor of functional recovery and of socio-professional reinsertion. Thus, patient rehabilitation is a major challenge. As this deficit...

Swan Unilateral Spatial Neglect

Unilateral Neglect: Assessment and Rehabilitation

Over 795,000 individuals in the U.S. suffer from strokes annually, with 610,000 accounting for first attacks. Stroke represents the fifth leading cause of death and resulting long-term disability in the United States. Unilateral neglect (UN) is a disabling characteristic of stroke, occurring from lesion damage to one hemisphere of the brain. Individuals with UN do not respond normally to object...

Auditory midline and spatial discrimination in patients with unilateral neglect.

Patients with unilateral neglect frequently show a bias in their subjective midline, as measured by pointing, or by a purely perceptual visual task (Ferber and Karnath, 1999). The subjective straight ahead has also been measured in audition. Vallar et al. (1995), Kerkhoff et al. (1999) and Tanaka et al. (1999) have all described a shift of the auditory midline to the right. We consider several ...

Neurobiology of unilateral spatial neglect.

Hemispatial neglect is a common and disabling consequence of stroke. Earlier studies aimed to identify a single area of the brain where damage caused neglect and sought a single disrupted process that could account for the symptoms. Recent studies have shifted toward identifying component processes and representations underlying spatial attention required for various tasks and identifying areas...