Is the Posner Reaction Time Test More Accurate Than Clinical Tests in Detecting Left Neglect in Acute and Chronic Stroke?

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2081-2088

  Rengachary, Jennifer ^a   d'Avossa, Giovanni ^a,b   Sapir, Ayelet ^a,b   Shulman, Gordon L ^a   Corbetta, Maurizio ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORDERS OF HIGHER CEREBRAL FUNCTION; HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; REACTION TIME; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

EID: 71049168014     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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