Ventral attention and motor network connectivity is relevant to functional impairment in spatial neglect after right brain stroke.

ABSTRACT: Emerging research suggests spatial neglect after right stroke is linked to dysfunctional attention and motor networks. Advanced functional connectivity analysis clarified brain network recovery, however we need to know how networks participate in adaptive motor performance. We need to verify network changes associated with validated functional measures and spatial-motor performance in spatial neglect, especially in patients with large brain lesions and significant disability. This study tested whether disability-relevant spatial neglect associates with different patterns of resting state functional connectivity between motor, dorsal and ventral attention networks (MN, DAN and VAN). Right stroke patients had spatial neglect (n = 8) or not (n = 10) on the Behavioural Inattention Test-convent

SUBMITTER: Barrett AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377801 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature