Guariglia Paola, Matano Alessandro, Piccardi Laura
Dipartimento Scienze dell'Uomo e della Società, Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore", Enna, Italy.
Unità di Neuropsicologia, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy.
PLoS One. 2014 Jun 17;9(6):e99700. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099700. eCollection 2014.
In the present study we analysed the bisecting behaviour of 287 chronic right brain-damaged patients by taking into account the presence and severity of extrapersonal and/or personal neglect diagnosed with the hemineglect battery. We also analysed right brain-damaged patients who had (or did not have) neglect according to their line bisection performance. Our results showed that performance of the line bisection task correlates with performance of cancellation tasks, reading and perceptual tasks, but not with the presence of personal neglect. Personal neglect seems to be unrelated to line bisection behaviour. Indeed, patients affected by extrapersonal and personal neglect do not show more severe neglect in line bisection than patients with only extrapersonal neglect. Furthermore, we observed that 20.56% of the patients were considered affected or not by neglect on the line bisection task compared with the other spatial tasks of the hemineglect battery. We conclude that using a battery with multiple tests is the only way to guarantee a reliable diagnosis and effectively plan for rehabilitative training.
在本研究中，我们通过考虑使用半侧忽视成套测验诊断出的个人空间和/或身体忽视的存在情况及严重程度，分析了287例慢性右脑损伤患者的二等分行为。我们还根据线二等分表现，分析了有（或没有）忽视症状的右脑损伤患者。我们的结果表明，线二等分任务的表现与划消任务、阅读和感知任务的表现相关，但与身体忽视的存在无关。身体忽视似乎与线二等分行为无关。事实上，受到个人空间和身体忽视影响的患者在线二等分中并未比仅受到个人空间忽视的患者表现出更严重的忽视。此外，我们观察到，与半侧忽视成套测验的其他空间任务相比，20.56%的患者在线二等分任务中被认为受到或未受到忽视影响。我们得出结论，使用包含多项测试的成套测验是确保可靠诊断并有效规划康复训练的唯一方法。
