BACKGROUND Patients with unilateral neglect fail to respond normally to stimuli on the left side. To facilitate the evaluation of unilateral spatial neglect, we developed a new application that runs on a tablet device and investigated its feasibility in stroke patients. METHODS We made the computerized table setting test (CTST) to run on the tablet computer. Forty acute ischemic stroke patien...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW A recent study has confirmed the enormous impact of visual neglect on the health services of the western world. Neglect was present in 48% of a sample of 166 right hemisphere stroke patients, and the severity of neglect predicted the extent of functional disability and family burden more accurately than did the extent of brain damage. Given the medical significance of neglect ...

background: children suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) are very difficult to handle. it can be very frustrating and needs an outstanding tolerance. behavioral difficulties in adhd children may increase the risk of child abuse for them. the aim of this research was to compare child abuse, and neglect between adhd group and normal children. methods: in this cross-section...

Samples of target and control American Indian children in the Southwest United States are compared for child abuse/neglect and family alcohol abuse. Alcohol abuse is present in virtually all families that abuse/neglect children. However, alcohol abuse exists exclusive of the association with child abuse/neglect. The study demonstrates that alcohol abuse is a necessary, but not sufficient, condi...

Dissociations between perceptual and imaginal neglect are typically investigated by using very different tasks (e.g. visual target cancellation vs. place descriptions). Here we report patients' performance on imaginal and perceptual tasks which shared identical stimuli and procedure, except for the modality of stimulus presentation. In different tasks, participants either saw towns/regions on a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Generally it is accepted that spatial neglect occurs predominantly after stroke of the human right hemisphere. In contrast, it remained controversial whether extinction follows the same hemispheric asymmetry. The opinion prevails that the laterality of visual extinction is not as pronounced as it is for spatial neglect. METHODS To directly compare the incidence of the 2...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Child neglect Adolescent parenting History of childhood maltreatment Children born to the youngest mothers are at substantial risk for neglect. Neglect is multiply determined, but a maternal childhood history of maltreatment is an especially influential parenting determinant. This study investigated the etiology of neglect among very young mothers (b 17 years; n ...