RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Recovery of cognitive function soon after stroke: a study of visual neglect, attention span and verbal recall.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 10
OP 13
DO 10.1136/jnnp.51.1.10
VO 51
IS 1
A1 Wade, D T
A1 Wood, V A
A1 Hewer, R L
YR 1988
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/51/1/10.abstract
AB Sixty two consecutive patients admitted to hospital and surviving 6 months were tested regularly over the first 3 months after their stroke to plot recovery in three aspects of cognition: visual neglect, assessed using a cancellation task, attention span assessed using digit span, and verbal recall, tested by counting number of words remembered from a list of 10 words. Normative data were collected for the cancellation test. Fifteen patients showed recovery from visual neglect, 10 improvement in attention span and nine improvement in verbal recall. The difficulties of measuring recovery of cognitive function after stroke are discussed.