Table 2. Clinical and demographic details of patients with sub-acute and chronic neglect.
| Sub-acute neglect only* (n = 29) | Chronic neglect** (n = 26) | |
| Age in years (mean/SD) | 67.2/13.1 | 74.0/11.1 |
| Sex (M/F) | 16/13 | 13/13 |
| Aetiology (ISCH/BL) | 24/5 | 23/3 |
| Lesion size (mean/SD) | 29.2/52.4 cm3 | 104.9/105.0 cm3 |
| Handedness (R/L) | 23/6 | 26/0 |
| ACT accuracy (mean/SD) | 33.5/14.3 | 21.8/12.4 |
| Left allocentric neglect | ||
| number† | 11 | 11 |
| score (mean/SD)‡ | 5.7/4.3 (2.1/3.8) | 10.0/6.7 (4.2/6.4) |
| Left egocentric neglect | ||
| number† | 14 | 17 |
| score (mean/SD)‡ | 4.9/5.9(3.3/5.3) | 9.3/5.5(6.9/6.2) |
| Right allocentric neglect | ||
| number† | 11 | 3 |
| score (mean/SD)‡ | 3.5/2.8 (1.2/2.3) | 3.5/1.7 (0.6/1.5) |
| Right egocentric neglect | ||
| number† | 6 | 4 |
| score (mean/SD)‡ | 2.9/1.9(0.7/1.5) | 4.6/3.2(1.4/2.7) |
*
Patient who at sub-acute phase following stroke showed any type of neglect symptoms including egocentric and allocentric neglect for either left or right side of space and who recovered completely by 9 months;
**
Patient who at chronic phase following stroke showed any type of neglect symptoms, i.e. patients who did not recovered; † this refers to the total number of patients with specific neglect symptoms including these with one or both types of symptoms, see results section for details; ‡, average score across patients with specific deficit (in brackets mean/SD for the entire group); ACT, Apples Cancellation Task (see Methods section for full details).