New insights into the diagnosis, rehabilitation and understanding of hemineglect using new technologies
(2018)
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- Hemineglect is one of the most frequent cognitive impairments after stroke, causing a major limitation for functional remission, with symptoms persisting years post-onset. Despite the extent of the impairment, a large part of the fundamental research and applied clinical practice has focused on the perceptive aspects of hemineglect, and overlooked links with action and action abilities. The aim of the present thesis was to bring new insights in the assessment, rehabilitation and understanding of the condition, combining perception and action measures. Throughout the thesis, an innovative sensitive and reliable robot test measuring visuo-spatial hemineglect and associated action kinematics was validated on stroke patients. Additionally, the thesis provided a novel hemineglect robot rehabilitation using a serious game, where game difficulty was auto-adapted in accordance to the patient’s impairment severity. Finally, by using these technological tools, factors moderating the link between perception and action in hemineglect were identified.
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Montedoro, V. (2018). New insights into the diagnosis, rehabilitation and understanding of hemineglect using new technologies. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/123357