Michael Francis Norwood, David Ross Painter, Chelsea Hannah Marsh, Connor Reid, Trevor Hine, Daniel S Harvie, Susan Jones, Kelly Dungey, Ben Chen, Marilia Libera, Leslie Gan, Julie Bernhardt, Elizabeth Kendall, Heidi Zeeman
BACKGROUND: Deficits in visuospatial attention, known as neglect, are common following brain injury, but underdiagnosed and poorly treated, resulting in long-term cognitive disability. In clinical settings, neglect is often assessed using simple pen-and-paper tests. While convenient, these cannot characterise the full spectrum of neglect. This protocol reports a research programme that compares traditional neglect assessments with a novel virtual reality attention assessment platform: The Attention Atlas (AA)...
December 2023: Brain Impairment: a Multidisciplinary Journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment