Monocular patching in subjects with right-hemisphere stroke affects perceptual-attentional bias

• Published in: Journal of rehabilitation research and development Vol. 43; no. 3; p. 337
• Main Authors: Barrett, Anna M, Burkholder, Stephanie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Department of Veterans Affairs 01.05.2006; Superintendent of Documents
• Subjects: Abnormalities; Aged; Bandages; Blindness - etiology; Blindness - rehabilitation; Care and treatment; Errors; Eye Protective Devices; Eyeglasses, Protective; Female; Health aspects; Humans; Male; Medical treatment; Medicine; Middle Aged; Neurological disorders; Patients; Perceptual Closure; Perceptual Disorders - etiology; Perceptual Disorders - rehabilitation; Sensory perception; Spatial Behavior; Stroke; Stroke patients; Stroke Rehabilitation; Studies; Vision, Monocular; United States

Monocular patching is a possible inexpensive treatment for spatial neglect. Previous studies were unpromising, but since neglect symptoms are heterogeneous, fractionating spatial bias may detect significant effects of patching. Poststroke, perceptual-attentional (PA) spatial bias, motor-intentional...