JOAN BANKS-SMITH - 00:04
[music] I'm Joan Banks-Smith for Kessler Foundation's Fast Takes, research that
changes lives. In this episode, Dr Peii Chen, senior research scientist in our Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research, talks about her peer-reviewed article Prevalence of Spatial Neglect Plus Stroke: A Systematic Review, which was e-published on September 24th, 2021, in the journal, Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Part of this work was supported under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. Dr Chen, can you share with us the main takeaways of this publication?

PEII CHEN: 00:44
Spatial neglect is prevalent. That is the main message, and the prevalence rate isabout 30% after unilateral stroke. It is higher after right-brain stroke, and a little bit lower after left-brain stroke. However, when I say lower after left-brain stroke, it's still 20%, so it's still quite common. We would like to use this article to emphasize the prevalent and the impact of spatial neglect patients who have stroke. And this prevalence rate is, I would say, significantly high. And the clinicians who have not addressed this problem, please start addressing it, at least screen patients for spatial neglect. So that you're aware patient have this problem and start planning what kind of treatment that you can provide.

BANKS-SMITH: 01:37
What is the impact and next implications of this publication to the field?

CHEN: 01:42
This publication not only review articles that provide prevalence rate of spatial
neglect, and through the process, we identify different kind of assessment or
diagnostic methods, different studies used. We found that ecological or functional assessment to detect diagnosed spatial neglect is preferred, especially in clinical setting, and multitest method is better than single cutoff criterion because spatial neglect is complicated, have different presentation of symptoms. So multiple test is better than single test.

BANKS-SMITH: 02:23
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