13 Facts About Hemispatial neglect

Right-sided spatial Hemispatial neglect is rare because there is redundant processing of the right space by both the left and right cerebral hemispheres, whereas in most left-dominant brains the left space is only processed by the right cerebral hemisphere.

Patients with Hemispatial neglect take longer to rehabilitate and make less daily progress than other patients with similar functional status.

Patients with Hemispatial neglect are less likely to live independently than patients who have both severe aphasia and right hemiparesis.

Researchers have debated about whether Hemispatial neglect is a disorder of spatial attention or spatial representation, or even non-spatial deficits of attention combined with a directional bias that results from unilateral brain injury.

Visual Hemispatial neglect can be assessed by having the patient draw a copy of a picture with which they are presented.

Types of hemispatial neglect are broadly divided into disorders of input and disorders of output.

Patients with allocentric Hemispatial neglect tend to Hemispatial neglect the contralesional side of individual items, regardless of where they appear with respect to the viewer.

The results of this experimental design showed that the spatial Hemispatial neglect patients performed more poorly for the allocentric left side of the triangle, as well as for objects presented on the egocentric left side of the body.

The results of this experiment showed the hemispatial neglect patients neglected somatosensory stimuli on the contralesional side of space, regardless of hand orientation.

Ultimately, the discoveries made by these experiments indicate that hemispatial neglect occurs with respect to multiple, simultaneously derived frames of reference, which dictate the nature and extent of neglect within the visual, auditory, and tactile fields.

Rehabilitation of Hemispatial neglect is often carried out by neuropsychologists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, neurologic music therapists, physical therapists, optometrists, and orthoptists.

Subjects received 15 consecutive treatment sessions and were evaluated on different aspects of the Hemispatial neglect disorder including perception of midline, and scanning deficits.

Trunk rotation therapies aimed at improving postural disorders and balance deficits in patients with unilateral Hemispatial neglect, have demonstrated optimistic results in regaining voluntary trunk control when using specific postural rehabilitative devices.