A battery of tests for the quantitative assessment of unilateral neglect. Azouvi, P., Bartolomeo, P., Beis, J., Perennou, D., Pradat-Diehl, P., & Rousseaux, M. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 24(4-6):273–285, 2006.
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Purpose: The lack of agreement regarding assessment methods is responsible for the variability in the reported rate of occurrence of unilateral neglect (UN) after stroke. In addition, dissociations have been reported between performance on traditional paper-and-pencil tests and UN in everyday life situations. Methods: In this paper, we summarize a series of studies with a quantitative test battery for UN, including paper-and-pencil tests, an assessment of personal neglect, extinction, and anosognosia, and a behavioural assessment, the Catherine Bergego Scale (CBS). Results: In healthy subjects, a significant effect of age, education duration and acting hand was found in several tasks. In patients with right hemisphere stroke, the most sensitive paper and pencil measure was the starting point in the cancellation task. The whole battery was more sensitive than any single test alone. An important finding was that behavioural assessment was more sensitive than any other single test. Neglect was two to four times less frequent, but also less severe and less consistent after left hemisphere stroke. Conclusion: Assessment of UN should rely on a battery of quantitative and normalised tests. Some patients may show clinically significant UN in everyday life while obtaining a normal performance on paper-and-pencil measures. This underlines the necessity to use a behavioural assessment of UN.
@article{azouviBatteryTestsQuantitative2006,
	title = {A battery of tests for the quantitative assessment of unilateral neglect},
	volume = {24},
	abstract = {Purpose: The lack of agreement regarding assessment methods is responsible for the variability in the reported rate of occurrence of unilateral neglect (UN) after stroke. In addition, dissociations have been reported between performance on traditional paper-and-pencil tests and UN in everyday life situations. 
Methods: In this paper, we summarize a series of studies with a quantitative test battery for UN, including paper-and-pencil tests, an assessment of personal neglect, extinction, and anosognosia, and a behavioural assessment, the Catherine Bergego Scale (CBS).
Results: In healthy subjects, a significant effect of age, education duration and acting hand was found in several tasks. In patients with right hemisphere stroke, the most sensitive paper and pencil measure was the starting point in the cancellation task. The whole battery was more sensitive than any single test alone. An important finding was that behavioural assessment was more sensitive than any other single test. Neglect was two to four times less frequent, but also less severe and less consistent after left hemisphere stroke.
Conclusion:  Assessment of UN should rely on a battery of quantitative and normalised tests. Some patients may show clinically significant UN in everyday life while obtaining a normal performance on paper-and-pencil measures. This underlines the necessity to use a behavioural assessment of UN.},
	number = {4-6},
	journal = {Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience},
	author = {Azouvi, P. and Bartolomeo, Paolo and Beis, J.-M. and Perennou, D. and Pradat-Diehl, P. and Rousseaux, M.},
	year = {2006},
	keywords = {\#nosource, ⛔ No DOI found},
	pages = {273--285},
}

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