While several theories have been supported by studies of patients with acute hemispatial neglect, generalizability beyond this population remains unclear.
First, although chronic disorders of visuospatial attention, language, and apraxia are associated with a laterality effect, in the acute phase neglect and aphasia can be observed after left or right lesions (Hier and Kaplan 1980 ; Kleinman et al. 2007 ).
This approach is not the same as human septic shock because our animal model is acute and neglects the effects of disease progression on organ dysfunction over many hours, a problem encountered in many animal models of sepsis [ 35].
Husain and colleagues used this in a study of the dopamine agonist rotigotine in acute, post-stroke neglect to good effect (Gorgoraptis et al., 2012).
Rengachary J, d'Avossa G, Sapir A, Shulman GL, Corbetta M. Is the Posner Reaction Time Test more accurate than clinical tests in detecting left neglect in acute and chronic stroke?
To compare the therapeutic effect of low- and high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) in patients with acute stroke with visuospatial neglect.
Yet that reckoned without the rise of Mr Stockton's party, UKIP, which has been fuelled by the general British malaise and by a more acute local one in neglected east-coast towns such as this.
However, the change of clinical symptoms during acute stage is consistently neglected.
However, the change of clinical symptoms during acute stage is considerably neglected.
62 Rhabdomyolysis during an acute attack is often neglected, 61 but can be easily diagnosed by measurement of plasma myoglobin or creatinine kinase level and should be treated according to the guidelines.
In the week that followed, I watched as members of the order drove a makeshift fleet of rickshaws around Calcutta's streets, returning with ever more people in acute states of distress and neglect, some of them hours from death.
