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Titel: Contralesional Trunk Rotation Dissociates Real vs. Pseudo-Visual Field Defects due to Visual Neglect in Stroke Patients
VerfasserIn: Nyffeler, Thomas
Paladini, Rebecca E.
Hopfner, Simone
Job, Oliver
Nef, Tobias
Pflugshaupt, Tobias
Vanbellingen, Tim
Bohlhalter, Stephan
Müri, René M.
Kerkhoff, Georg
Cazzoli, Dario
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Frontiers in neurology
Bandnummer: 8
Startseite: 1
Endseite: 8
Verlag/Plattform: Frontiers
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: In stroke patients, the clinical presentation of visual field defects (VFDs) is frequently accompanied by visual neglect, i.e., the inability to attend and respond to the contralesional space. However, the diagnostic discrimination between the lack of reactions to contralesional stimuli due to VFDs or visual neglect is challenging during clinical examination. This discrimination is particularly relevant, since both clinical pictures are associated with different therapeutic approaches and outcomes. The aim of this study was to systematically investigate the effectiveness of trunk rotation toward the contralesional side-a manipulation dissociating the coordinate system of the trunk from that of the head and eyes-in disentangling real VFDs from "pseudo-VFDs" that occur due to visual neglect. Twenty patients with a left-sided VFD after a right-hemispheric stroke (10 additionally showing visual neglect in neuropsychological testing, VFD + neglect; 10 without neglect, VFD) were tested with Goldmann perimetry in both standard and trunk rotation conditions. In the standard condition, both VFD and VFD + neglect patients showed a conspicuous narrowing of the left visual field. However, trunk rotation triggered strikingly different patterns of change in the two groups: it elicited a significant increase in visual field extension in the VFD + neglect group, but left visual field extension virtually unchanged in the VFD group. Our results highlight contralesional trunk rotation as a simple, viable manipulation to effectively and rapidly disentangle real VFDs from "pseudo-VFDs" (i.e., due to visual neglect) during clinical examination.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00411
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2017.00411/full
Link zu diesem Datensatz: hdl:20.500.11880/30640
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-33294
ISSN: 1664-2295
Datum des Eintrags: 16-Feb-2021
Fakultät: HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Fachrichtung: HW - Psychologie
Professur: HW - Prof. Dr. Georg Kerkhoff
Sammlung:SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes

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