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. 2010 Dec 14;134(3):903–912. doi: 10.1093/brain/awq355

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical data of all 54 right brain damaged stroke patients

Spatial neglect
No neglect
Recovered Chronic
Number 16 8 30
Sex (M/F) 6/10 2/6 17/13
Age (years) 63.1 (13.4) 68.4 (7.9) 61.8 (15.9)
Aetiology 14 infarct, 2 haemorrhage 8 infarct 25 infarct, 5 haemorrhage
Visual field defects (% present) 13 50 17
Hemiparesis (% present) 94 100 67
 Arm 2.3 (2.0) 1.9 (1.4) 4.0 (1.0)
 Leg 2.7 (1.9) 2.1 (1.8) 4.4 (0.8)
Spatial neglect
 Letter cancellation
  Initial phase (CoC) 0.54 (0.29) 0.73 (0.11) <0.01 (0.01)
  Chronic phase (CoC) 0.01 (0.02) 0.36 (0.33)
 Bells test
  Initial phase (CoC) 0.53 (0.33) 0.79 (0.11) <0.01 (0.03)
  Chronic phase (CoC) <0.01 (0.03) 0.31 (0.30)
 Copying
  Initial phase (% correct) 54 (28) 41 (22) 97 (5)
  Chronic phase (% correct) 98 (5) 25 (25)
 Eye-in-head position (°) 5.0 (10.6) 8.1 (7.1) −2.5 (10.6)

Data are presented as mean (SD).

CoC = Centre of Cancellation. (Rorden and Karnath, 2010).

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