A Model to Identify Specific Predictors of Spatial Neglect Recovery

Status unconfirmed

Conditions studied: Spatial Neglect, Hemispatial Neglect, Hemineglect, Unilateral Neglect, Visual Spatial Neglect, Sensory Neglect

In brief

This study examines methods to better predict improvement of a hidden disability of functional vision, spatial neglect, following stroke. Spatial neglect is a tendency to make visual judgment and movement errors mislocating the body and objects in space. The investigators are using specialized statistical methods to compute the proportion of improvement accounted for by personal characteristics of each stroke survivor, the proportion of improvement accounted for by the unique visual-spatial errors made by each subject, and the proportion of improvement accounted for by each treatment administered. The investigators will also examine whether brain imaging predicts how rapidly improvement occurs. Lastly, the study tests whether improvements that are meaningful to the survivor can be measured in a way that still allows detection of small and scientifically eloquent performance changes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00990353

Run by

Kessler Foundation

People needed

80

Starts

2009-01-01

Expected to finish

2021-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-02-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Stroke survivors with right brain stroke and evidence of a hidden disability of functional vision (spatial neglect)
• Can give consent

You may not qualify if…

• Other neurological conditions

Where it is running

• Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation — Chester, New Jersey, United States
• Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation — Saddle Brook, New Jersey, United States
• Kessler Foundation Research Center — West Orange, New Jersey, United States

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