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

• DOI: 10.1037/neu0000527
• Publication Date: 2019-03-21T14:08:27Z
• Authors: Nele Demeyere; Celine R. Gillebert
• Keywords: Hemispatial Neglect; Unilateral Neglect

Visuospatial neglect, whereby patients are unable to attend stimuli on their contralesional side, is a neuropsychological condition commonly experienced after stroke. We aimed investigate whether egocentric and allocentric neglect functionally dissociable differ in prevalence laterality the early poststroke period.A consecutive sample of 366 acute stroke completed Broken Hearts test from Oxford Cognitive Screen. evaluated association between contrasted severity left-sided versus right-sided neglect.Clinically, we found double dissociation ego- with 50% showing only 25% neglect. Left-sided was more prevalent severe than though still highly (35%). but not At 6 months, representative subsample 160 patients, recovery rates be 81% 74% for respectively.Dissociable symptoms support heterogeneous account visuospatial which shown both left right hemifields. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).