A letter cancellation task revealed neglect of the lower left quadrant when cancellation began at the top, but of the upper left quadrant when it began in the bottom. When the cancellation was done line by line through a "window" which covered all but the line currently worked on, the quadrant effects disappeared, so that fatigue could not explain these effects. An alternative hypothesis is tha...

Objective: This study reports the effectiveness of Korean medicine treatment patients with intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhages suffering unilateral neglect symptoms.Case presentation: The patient was treated using medicine, including acupuncture, herbal moxibustion, a limb activation exercise. We measured Unilateral Neglect Symptom progress numeric rating scale, Albert’s test, Line b...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of a Draw-A-Man Test in measuring personal neglect in patients with right brain stroke. METHOD Draw-A-Man Test was administered to 51 persons with right cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and 110 age-matched persons without brain insult. A categorical classification was developed based on the man drawn in the test....

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Generally it is accepted that spatial neglect occurs predominantly after stroke of the human right hemisphere. In contrast, it remained controversial whether extinction follows the same hemispheric asymmetry. The opinion prevails that the laterality of visual extinction is not as pronounced as it is for spatial neglect. METHODS To directly compare the incidence of the 2...