Ego- and allocentric visuospatial neglect: Dissociations, prevalence, and laterality in acute stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Visuospatial neglect, whereby patients are unable to attend to stimuli on their contralesional side, is a neuropsychological condition commonly experienced after stroke. We aimed to investigate whether egocentric and allocentric neglect are functionally dissociable and differ in prevalence and laterality in the early poststroke period.

Method

A consecutive sample of 366 acute stroke patients completed the Broken Hearts test from the Oxford Cognitive Screen. We evaluated the association between egocentric and allocentric neglect and contrasted the prevalence and severity of left-sided versus right-sided neglect.

Results

Clinically, we found a double dissociation between ego- and allocentric neglect, with 50% of the neglect patients showing only egocentric neg

SUBMITTER: Demeyere N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6487998 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature