Induced sensorimotor cortex plasticity remediates chronic treatment-resistant visual neglect
Right brain injury causes visual neglect - lost awareness of left space. During prism adaptation therapy, patients adapt to a rightward optical shift by recalibrating right arm movements leftward. This can improve left neglect, but the benefit of a single session is transient (~1 day). Here we show...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2017-09-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/26602 |