Hemispatial Neglect
Conditions
Brief summary
This project is designed to test a lightweight, portable, computerized pair of glasses that will help reduce some of the cognitive deficits seen in patients who have suffered damage to their right cerebral hemisphere.
Detailed description
Hemispatial neglect is the inability or failure to attend and respond to the left side of space. Patients suffering right cerebral hemispheric damage from stroke or traumatic brain injury frequently suffer neglect and will ignore all information located in the left side of space. Currently there is no effective rehabilitation technique to treat neglect and many of these patients have severe long-term disability. The goal of this project is to determine whether a prototypical pair of rehabilitation glasses can reduce the symptoms of hemispatial neglect.
Interventions
DEVICEComputer rehabilitation glasses
Sponsors
Chun Lim
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Intervention model description
1/2 patients receive visual stimulation with rehabilitation glasses. 1/2 patients receive control stimulation with rehabilitation glasses.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
21 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Presence of hemispatial neglect as defined by Behavioral Inattention Test score of 129 or worse (maximum score 146).
Exclusion criteria
* Presence of aphasia at time of testing, * Recent seizures * Major psychiatric illness * Prior unrelated neurological disease
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement of patient's hemispatial neglect scores | 60 days | Behavioral Inattention Test |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed