Results of neglect

Prism adaptation treatment of neglect: conflicting results?

In this issue of Neurology, two articles consider the treatment of neglect with prisms and initially appear to have contradictory results. 1,2 Neglect due to right hemisphere injury, most commonly after stroke, continues to be a major cause of disability, impairing ability to live independently and perform activities of daily living. Patients with strokes that damage the right hemisphere are mo...

Results of Group Psychotherapy for Abuse, Neglect and Pregnancy Loss

The pre and post evaluation of 65 patients undergoing intensive group psychotherapy by the Hope Alive method, yielded useful information on 28 parameters. The results provide sufficient evidence of benefit to warrant continued use of this program and to investigate the various components to delineate the most effective aspects of the program. There is statistically significant global improvemen...

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...

The dissociation of visuospatial neglect and neglect dyslexia.

A right-handed man with a left hemisphere lesion extending into the right hemisphere, with evidence of both a left-sided neglect dyslexia and right-sided visuospatial neglect is reported. When copying simple geometric designs he omitted to copy figures on the right-hand side of the page, when bisecting lines he tended to bisect the line to the left of the line's actual centre. He had a neglect ...