Integrity of medial temporal structures may predict better improvement of spatial neglect with prism adaptation treatment |
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Authors: | Peii Chen Kelly M Goedert Priyanka Shah Anne L Foundas A M Barrett |
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Institution: | 1. Kessler Foundation Research Center, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052, USA 2. Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA 3. Department of Psychology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA 4. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA 5. Brain and Behavior Program, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA 6. Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, NJ, USA
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Abstract: | Prism adaptation treatment (PAT) is a promising rehabilitative method for functional recovery in persons with spatial neglect. Previous research suggests that PAT improves motor-intentional “aiming” deficits that frequently occur with frontal lesions. To test whether presence of frontal lesions predicted better improvement of spatial neglect after PAT, the current study evaluated neglect-specific improvement in functional activities (assessment with the Catherine Bergego Scale) over time in 21 right-brain-damaged stroke survivors with left-sided spatial neglect. The results demonstrated that neglect patients’ functional activities improved after two weeks of PAT and continued improving for four weeks. Such functional improvement did not occur equally in all of the participants: Neglect patients with lesions involving the frontal cortex (n?=?13) experienced significantly better functional improvement than did those without frontal lesions (n?=?8). More importantly, voxel-based lesion-behavior mapping (VLBM) revealed that in comparison to the group of patients without frontal lesions, the frontal-lesioned neglect patients had intact regions in the medial temporal areas, the superior temporal areas, and the inferior longitudinal fasciculus. The medial cortical and subcortical areas in the temporal lobe were especially distinguished in the “frontal lesion” group. The findings suggest that the integrity of medial temporal structures may play an important role in supporting functional improvement after PAT. |
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