Laboratory of Neuropsychology, IRCCS San Camillo Hospital , Lido-Venice , Italy ; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova , Padova , Italy.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Jul 8;7:360. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00360. eCollection 2013.
WE COMPARED, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE OVERALL AND DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF THREE OF THE MOST WIDELY USED LEFT NEGLECT (LN) TREATMENTS: visual scanning training (VST), limb activation treatment (LAT), and prism adaptation (PA). Thirty-three LN patients were assigned in quasi-random order to the three groups (VST, LAT, or PA). Each patient received only one type of treatment. LN patients' performance on everyday life tasks was assessed four times (over a period of 6 weeks): A1 and A2 (i.e., the two pre-treatment assessments); A3 and A4 (i.e., the two post-treatment assessments). LN patients in each of the three treatment conditions were treated for the same number of sessions (i.e., 20). The results showed that improvements were present in the majority of the tests assessing the peripersonal space in everyday life activities. Our findings were independent of unspecific factors and lasted for at least 2 weeks following the end of the treatments. There were no interactions, however, between LN treatments and assessments. We suggest that all three treatments can be considered as valid rehabilitation interventions for LN and could be employed for ameliorating LN signs.
我们首次比较了三种最广泛使用的左侧忽略（LN）治疗方法的整体和差异效果：视觉扫描训练（VST）、肢体激活治疗（LAT）和棱镜适应（PA）。33 名 LN 患者被分为三组（VST、LAT 或 PA），采用准随机顺序分配。每位患者仅接受一种治疗。LN 患者的日常生活任务表现评估了四次（在 6 周内）：A1 和 A2（即两次治疗前评估）；A3 和 A4（即两次治疗后评估）。在三种治疗条件下的每个 LN 患者都接受了相同数量的治疗（即 20 次）。结果表明，在评估日常生活中近侧空间的大多数测试中都有改善。我们的发现与非特异性因素无关，并且在治疗结束后至少持续 2 周。然而，LN 治疗和评估之间没有相互作用。我们建议，所有三种治疗方法都可以被视为 LN 的有效康复干预措施，并可用于改善 LN 症状。
