The Computerized Table Setting Test for Detecting Unilateral Neglect

The Computerized Table Setting Test for Detecting Unilateral Neglect

BACKGROUND Patients with unilateral neglect fail to respond normally to stimuli on the left side. To facilitate the evaluation of unilateral spatial neglect, we developed a new application that runs on a tablet device and investigated its feasibility in stroke patients. METHODS We made the computerized table setting test (CTST) to run on the tablet computer. Forty acute ischemic stroke patien...

Feasibility of a Semi-computerized Line Bisection Test for Unilateral Visual Neglect Assessment.

BACKGROUND Commonly used paper-and-pencil based test modalities for assessing the degree of unilateral visual neglect (ULN) in patients with hemispheric cerebral lesions consume human resources with a significant inter and intra-rater variability. OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of a semi-computerized electronic-pen based ULN assessment system (e-system) to improve assessment quality wit...

Swan Unilateral Spatial Neglect

Setting the table for macrophages.

In this issue of Blood, Das et al assign a very novel and unanticipated function to plasminogen by showing that it is an enhancer of the phagocytic function of macrophages.

Beyond unilateral neglect.

When required to set the endpoints of an imaginary horizontal line of a given length on the basis of its midpoint printed on a sheet of paper, left neglect patients most frequently misplaced endpoints leftwards. Though giving rise to the very same disproportion usually found with these patients on canonical line bisection tasks, this behaviour cannot be accommodated by current explanations of u...