Measuring Neglect

Measuring Neglect

As a basis for prioritizing the allocation of financial and other resources targeted for international development, the strong preference of the global community’s policy makers and donors is to rely on numbers. Metrics such as DALYS (disability-adjusted life years—the number of healthy life years lost either from death or disability) or DALYs averted per dollar provide highly useful informatio...

Measuring visual neglect in acute stroke and predicting its recovery: the visual neglect recovery index.

An overall measure of the recovery of visual neglect in patients with an acute stroke is described: The "Visual Neglect Recovery Inde" (VNRI) expresses the amount of visual neglect on a battery of visual neglect tests as a percentage of complete recovery from the maximal visual neglect measurable. The principles underlying the development of the index are similar to those involved in the develo...

The neglect of "child abuse and neglect".

Allocentric neglect strongly associated with egocentric neglect.

Following brain injury, many patients experience egocentric spatial neglect, where they fail to respond to stimuli on the contralesional side of their body. On the other hand, allocentric, object-based neglect refers to the symptom of ignoring the contralesional side of objects, regardless of the objects' egocentric position. There is an established tradition for considering these two phenomena...

Measuring mild visual neglect: Do complex visual tests activate rightward attentional bias?

Conventional clinical tests, such as the star cancellation test, may be valid and reliable to use with participants who have moderate to severe neglect but they may not be appropriate for participants with mild neglect. This pilot study was designed to assess if participants with a history of neglect, but no obvious signs on conventional clinical testing, show a rightward attentional bias durin...