A recent study conducted by Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, has revealed that mirror therapy is proving beneficial for patients suffering from unilateral neglect after stroke.

Imagine struggling to see, listen, or make movements in half of your environment. This is typical for individuals who suffer from unilateral spatial neglect, a common post-stroke deficit of attention ...

When I was a graduate student 25 years ago, I met a man I’ll call Mr. X, who had recently recovered from a stroke to the right side of his cerebral cortex. Like many people with a neurological ...

Did you know that after a stroke, nearly one-third of survivors face a challenging condition known as "neglect"? This neurological disorder significantly impacts a stroke survivor's rehabilitation, ...

Researchers determined that spatial neglect affects 29% of survivors of unilateral strokes and is more prevalent following right brain stroke and in the early stages of recovery East Hanover, NJ.

Visual search tasks typically require us to find a particular target presented among set of distractors. An example is looking for a hammer in a box of tools. Current neurophysiological, psychological ...

Check out the dog, Barley, in this video: YouTube link. Notice how he doesn't seem interested in the food on the left side of his bowl. Perhaps he's blind in his left eye? But that can't be the case.

Spatial neglect is a behavioral syndrome occurring after brain injury. It is categorized by a failure to respond, or orient to stimuli after damage to the neural networks critical to spatial attention ...