Deans' stroke musings: Prism adaptation theory in unilateral neglect: motor and perceptual components

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Prism adaptation theory in unilateral neglect: motor and perceptual components

If you have this I'm sure your doctor can explain this article.
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00728/full?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Neuroscience-w46-2013

Styrmir Saevarsson^*

Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group (EKN), Bogenhausen University Hospital, Munich, Germany

A commentary on
The influence of prism adaptation on perceptual and motor components of neglect: a reply to Saevarsson and Kristjánsson

by Striemer, C. L., and Danckert, J. (2013). Front. Hum. Neurosci. 7:255. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00255

Dissociating perceptual and motor effects of prism adaptation in spatial neglect
By Striemer, C., and Danckert, J. (2010a). Neuroreport 21, 436–441. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328338592f

Through a prism darkly: re-evaluating prisms and neglect
By Striemer, C., and Danckert, J. (2010b). Trends Cogn. Sci. 14, 308–316. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.04.001

Striemer and Danckert (2010a) suggest that prism adaptation (PA) has beneficial effects primarily on spatial attention and the motor components of neglect, and that the direct effects on visual neglect are insignificant. The main support for their influential hypothesis (e.g., Saj et al., 2013) comes from their own study (Striemer and Danckert, 2010b), but Saevarsson and Kristjánsson (2013) criticize their interpretations, and call for another possible evaluation of their data. Striemer and Danckert (2013) reply to this criticism; however, there are a number of controversial and fundamental issues that remain unresolved in this debate which future empirical studies need to consider, to explain “how PA remediates symptoms of neglect” (Striemer and Danckert, 2013, p. 2).

Your doctor can read the rest at the link including references.