In the past decade, new and revised assessments for right hemisphere dysfunction have come into practice. These newer tests focus on affective and communicative components as well as unilateral neglect.Comprehensive Affect Testing System (CATS)This test…
As medical SLPs treating individuals with cognitive impairments, we rely heavily on data and measurable outcomes to guide treatment. We must identify and quantify sources of impairment in a valid, reliable fashion, and measure therapy…
What do you see when you look at someone’s face? Is the person happy or sad, angry or confused, surprised or afraid? Sometimes a person may be saying one thing, but his or her face…
Recently the neuroscience field lost a mentor and brilliant clinical observer, Dr. Oliver Sacks. Some of you may have read one of his early books, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. In…
Unilateral visuospatial neglect is an attentional disorder in which a patient does not fully process visual stimuli and images in a region of space contralateral to the brain lesion. It most often occurs after right…
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