Spatial neglect

Evidence-based neurology checklist on spatial neglect: Clinical features There is ipsilateral face and gaze deviation The subject eats from one half of a plate Only one side of the face may be groomed Words on one half of a page are ignored The subject may bump into objects on one side The subject…

Clinical features

  • There is ipsilateral face and gaze deviation
  • The subject eats from one half of a plate
  • Only one side of the face may be groomed
  • Words on one half of a page are ignored
  • The subject may bump into objects on one side
  • The subject may not use a limb
  • There is unawareness of the neglect (anosognosia)

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Treatment

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References

  1. Li K, Malhotra PA. Spatial neglect. Pract Neurol 2015; 15:333-339.
  2. Adair JC, Barrett AM. Spatial neglect: clinical and neuroscience review: a wealth of information on the poverty of spatial attention. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2008; 1142:21-43. 
  3. Pierce SR, Buxbaum LJ. Treatments of unilateral neglect: a review. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2002; 83:256-268. 
  4. Silveri MC, Ciccarelli N, Cappa A. Unilateral spatial neglect in degenerative brain pathology. Neuropsychology 2011; 25:554-566.
  5. Shaikh MT, Younas U, Irshad I, Rathore FA. Rehabilitation of hemispatial neglect in stroke. J Pak Med Assoc 2022; 72:779-781.

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