France
Professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Medical Director of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at the Hospices Civils de Lyon (Hôpital Henry Gabrielle), specialising in neurorehabilitation.
Dean of the Lyon-Est Faculty of Medicine, Claude Bernard University – Lyon 1 since 2016.
Novel Insights in the rehabilitation of unilateral visuospatial neglect
Deficits in spatial cognition secondary to right brain injury are a poor prognostic factor for motor and functional recovery.
The most severe of these deficits is visuopatial neglect. This is a multifaceted syndrome whose deficits and productive manifestations can affect the different dimensions of space: extracorporeal, corporeal, egocentric, allocentric or imagined, as well as motor and sensory modalities.
This deficit therefore represents a challenge in rehabilitation to encourage recovery, autonomy and participation. Several rehabilitation methods exist, which can be classified according to their “top-down” or “bottom-up” mechanism of action, as well as innovative methods based on cerebral neuromodulation, virtual reality or artistic activity.
