Unilateral neglect is more severe and common in older patients with right hemispheric stroke

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 1439-1444

  Gottesman, R F ^a,c   Kleinman, J T ^b   Davis, C ^a   Heidler Gary, J ^a   Newhart, M ^a   Kannan, V ^a   Hillis, A E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Gottesman   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE STROKE; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; AGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 58149217053     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000327888.48230.d2     Document Type: Article

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