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Guilbert A, Bara TG, Bouchara T, Gaffard M, Bourlon C. Feasibility and relevance of an immersive virtual reality cancellation task assessing far space in unilateral spatial neglect. J Neuropsychol 2023. [PMID: 37942647 DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a highly prevalent neuropsychological syndrome. However, its assessment in clinical practice, mainly based on paper-and-pencil tests, encounters limits as only near space, called peripersonal, is assessed. However, USN is a multicomponent syndrome that can also affect far space, called extrapersonal. This space is not assessed in current clinical assessment although it can be more impacted than peripersonal space. Immersive virtual reality (VR) allows developing tasks in far space to assess this heterogeneity. This study aimed to test the feasibility and the relevance of an immersive VR task to assess far space. A cancellation task, the Bells test, was used in its original paper-and-pencil version and was also adapted into a far immersive VR version. Ten patients with left USN and sixteen age-matched healthy participants were included. A single-case method was performed to investigate the performance of each patient. Although five patients showed very similar results between both versions, the five others exhibited a dissociation with a more severe impairment in the VR version. Three of these five patients significantly differed from the healthy participants only on the VR version. As USN in far space is not brought to light by paper-and-pencil tests, immersive VR appears as a promising tool to detect USN affecting this space.
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- A Guilbert
- Laboratoire Vision Action Cognition (VAC), Université Paris Cité, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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- Centre d'Etudes et De Recherche en Informatique et Communications (CEDRIC), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN), Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire Vision Action Cognition (VAC), Université Paris Cité, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
- Hôpitaux de Saint-Maurice, Soins de Suite et Réadaptation Neurologique, Saint Maurice, France
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- Hôpitaux de Saint-Maurice, Soins de Suite et Réadaptation Neurologique, Saint Maurice, France
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Gaffard M, Bourlon C, Bara TG, Bouchara T, Guilbert A. Évaluation de la négligence spatiale unilatérale en réalité virtuelle : une étude de cas. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2023.01.450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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Lunven M, Rode G, Bourlon C, Duret C, Migliaccio R, Chevrillon E, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Bartolomeo P. Anatomical predictors of successful prism adaptation in chronic visual neglect. Cortex 2019; 120:629-641. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2018] [Revised: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bourlon C, Urbanski M, Quentin R, Duret C, Bardinet E, Bartolomeo P, Bourgeois A. Cortico-thalamic disconnection in a patient with supernumerary phantom limb. Exp Brain Res 2017; 235:3163-3174. [PMID: 28752330 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-017-5044-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Supernumerary phantom limb (SPL) designates the experience of an illusory additional limb occurring after brain damage. Functional neuroimaging during SPL movements documented increased response in the ipsilesional supplementary motor area (SMA), premotor cortex (PMC), thalamus and caudate. This suggested that motor circuits are important for bodily related cognition, but anatomical evidence is sparse. Here, we tested this hypothesis by studying an extremely rare patient with chronic SPL, still present 3 years after a vascular stroke affecting cortical and subcortical right-hemisphere structures. Anatomical analysis included an advanced in vivo reconstruction of white matter tracts using diffusion-based spherical deconvolution. This reconstruction demonstrated a massive and relatively selective disconnection between anatomically preserved SMA/PMC and the thalamus. Our results provide strong anatomical support for the hypothesis that cortico-thalamic loops involving motor-related circuits are crucial to integrate sensorimotor processing with bodily self-awareness.
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- Clémence Bourlon
- Unité de Neurorééducation, Centre de Rééducation Fonctionnelle Les Trois Soleils, 77310, Boissise Le Roi, France. .,Service de Médecine et de Réadaptation gériatrique et neurologique, Hôpitaux de Saint-Maurice, 94410, Saint-Maurice, France. .,Inserm U1127, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Brain and Spine Institute, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France.
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- Service de Médecine et de Réadaptation gériatrique et neurologique, Hôpitaux de Saint-Maurice, 94410, Saint-Maurice, France.,Inserm U1127, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Brain and Spine Institute, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Unité de Neurorééducation, Centre de Rééducation Fonctionnelle Les Trois Soleils, 77310, Boissise Le Roi, France.,Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien, Neurologie, 91100, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
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- Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche-CENIR, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière-ICM, 75013, Paris, France
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- Inserm U1127, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Brain and Spine Institute, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75013, Paris, France
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- Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Neuroscience Department, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Bourlon C, Alamoudi S, Kumar D, Viswabandya A, Thyagu S, Michelis FV, Kim DDH, Lipton JH, Messner HA, Deotare U. A short tale of blood, kidney and brain: BK virus encephalitis in an allogeneic stem cell transplant recipient. Bone Marrow Transplant 2017; 52:907-909. [PMID: 28218753 DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2017.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- C Bourlon
- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Transplant Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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de Vito S, Lunven M, Bourlon C, Duret C, Cavanagh P, Bartolomeo P. When brain damage "improves" perception: neglect patients can localize motion-shifted probes better than controls. J Neurophysiol 2015; 114:3351-8. [PMID: 26510763 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00757.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2015] [Accepted: 10/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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When we look at bars flashed against a moving background, we see them displaced in the direction of the upcoming motion (flash-grab illusion). It is still debated whether these motion-induced position shifts are low-level, reflexive consequences of stimulus motion or high-level compensation engaged only when the stimulus is tracked with attention. To investigate whether attention is a causal factor for this striking illusory position shift, we evaluated the flash-grab illusion in six patients with damaged attentional networks in the right hemisphere and signs of left visual neglect and six age-matched controls. With stimuli in the top, right, and bottom visual fields, neglect patients experienced the same amount of illusion as controls. However, patients showed no significant shift when the test was presented in their left hemifield, despite having equally precise judgments. Thus, paradoxically, neglect patients perceived the position of the flash more veridically in their neglected hemifield. These results suggest that impaired attentional processes can reduce the interaction between a moving background and a superimposed stationary flash, and indicate that attention is a critical factor in generating the illusory motion-induced shifts of location.
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- Stefania de Vito
- INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France; Department of Psychology, Catholic University, Milan, Italy;
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- INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France
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- Centre de Rééducation Fonctionnelle Les Trois Soleils, Boissise Le Roi, France
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- Centre de Rééducation Fonctionnelle Les Trois Soleils, Boissise Le Roi, France
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- Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes, Centre Biomédical des Saints Péres, Paris, France; and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France; Department of Psychology, Catholic University, Milan, Italy
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Bourlon C, Urbanski M. From unconscious to conscious vision: Rehabilitation of a case of cortical blindness. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2015.07.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lunven M, Correia S, Migliaccio R, Duret C, Blanchard M, Laurent G, Bartolomeo P, Bourlon C. Recuperation of daily activities and quality of life after stroke: The EAVQ-QdV scale. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2015.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Lunven M, Thiebaut De Schotten M, Bourlon C, Duret C, Migliaccio R, Rode G, Bartolomeo P. White matter lesional predictors of chronic visual neglect: a longitudinal study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 138:746-60. [PMID: 25609686 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Chronic visual neglect prevents brain-damaged patients from returning to an independent and active life. Detecting predictors of persistent neglect as early as possible after the stroke is therefore crucial to plan the relevant interventions. Neglect signs do not only depend on focal brain lesions, but also on dysfunction of large-scale brain networks connected by white matter bundles. We explored the relationship between markers of axonal degeneration occurring after the stroke and visual neglect chronicity. A group of 45 patients with unilateral strokes in the right hemisphere underwent cognitive testing for neglect twice, first at the subacute phase (<3 months after onset) and then at the chronic phase (>1 year). For each patient, magnetic resonance imaging including diffusion sequences was performed at least 4 months after the stroke. After masking each patient's lesion, we used tract-based spatial statistics to obtain a voxel-wise statistical analysis of the fractional anisotropy data. Twenty-seven patients had signs of visual neglect at initial testing. Only 10 of these patients had recovered from neglect at follow-up. When compared with patients without neglect, the group including all subacute neglect patients had decreased fractional anisotropy in the second (II) and third (III) branches of the right superior longitudinal fasciculus, as well as in the splenium of the corpus callosum. The subgroup of chronic patients showed reduced fractional anisotropy in a portion the splenium, the forceps major, which provides interhemispheric communication between regions of the occipital lobe and of the superior parietal lobules. The severity of neglect correlated with fractional anisotropy values in superior longitudinal fasciculus II/III for subacute patients and in its caudal portion for chronic patients. Our results confirm a key role of fronto-parietal disconnection in the emergence and chronic persistence of neglect, and demonstrate an implication of caudal interhemispheric disconnection in chronic neglect. Splenial disconnection may prevent fronto-parietal networks in the left hemisphere from resolving the activity imbalance with their right hemisphere counterparts, thus leading to persistent neglect.
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- Marine Lunven
- 1 INSERM U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), F-75013 Paris, France 2 Service de Médecine Physique et Réadaptation, Unité de Rééducation Neurologique CRF 'Les Trois Soleils' Boissise le Roi, France 3 Inserm UMR_S 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, ImpAct, centre des neurosciences de Lyon, université Lyon-1, 16, avenue Lépine 69676 Bron, France
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- 1 INSERM U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), F-75013 Paris, France 4 Natbrainlab, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
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- 2 Service de Médecine Physique et Réadaptation, Unité de Rééducation Neurologique CRF 'Les Trois Soleils' Boissise le Roi, France
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- 2 Service de Médecine Physique et Réadaptation, Unité de Rééducation Neurologique CRF 'Les Trois Soleils' Boissise le Roi, France
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- 1 INSERM U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), F-75013 Paris, France 5 AP-HP, Department of Neurology, IFR 70, Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
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- 3 Inserm UMR_S 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, ImpAct, centre des neurosciences de Lyon, université Lyon-1, 16, avenue Lépine 69676 Bron, France 6 Service de médecine physique et réadaptation neurologique, hospital Henry-Gabrielle, hospice civils de Lyon, 20, route de Vourles, Saint-Genis-Laval, France
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- 1 INSERM U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), F-75013 Paris, France 5 AP-HP, Department of Neurology, IFR 70, Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France 7 Department of Psychology, Catholic University, Milan, Italy
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Coubard OA, Urbanski M, Bourlon C, Gaumet M. Educating the blind brain: a panorama of neural bases of vision and of training programs in organic neurovisual deficits. Front Integr Neurosci 2014; 8:89. [PMID: 25538575 PMCID: PMC4256986 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2014] [Accepted: 10/31/2014] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Vision is a complex function, which is achieved by movements of the eyes to properly foveate targets at any location in 3D space and to continuously refresh neural information in the different visual pathways. The visual system involves five main routes originating in the retinas but varying in their destination within the brain: the occipital cortex, but also the superior colliculus (SC), the pretectum, the supra-chiasmatic nucleus, the nucleus of the optic tract and terminal dorsal, medial and lateral nuclei. Visual pathway architecture obeys systematization in sagittal and transversal planes so that visual information from left/right and upper/lower hemi-retinas, corresponding respectively to right/left and lower/upper visual fields, is processed ipsilaterally and ipsialtitudinally to hemi-retinas in left/right hemispheres and upper/lower fibers. Organic neurovisual deficits may occur at any level of this circuitry from the optic nerve to subcortical and cortical destinations, resulting in low or high-level visual deficits. In this didactic review article, we provide a panorama of the neural bases of eye movements and visual systems, and of related neurovisual deficits. Additionally, we briefly review the different schools of rehabilitation of organic neurovisual deficits, and show that whatever the emphasis is put on action or perception, benefits may be observed at both motor and perceptual levels. Given the extent of its neural bases in the brain, vision in its motor and perceptual aspects is also a useful tool to assess and modulate central nervous system (CNS) in general.
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- Olivier A Coubard
- The Neuropsychological Laboratory, CNS-Fed Paris, France ; Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, UMR 8242 CNRS-Université Paris Descartes Paris, France
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- Service de Médecine et de Réadaptation Gériatrique et Neurologique, Hôpitaux de Saint-Maurice Saint-Maurice, France ; Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie UM 75, Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225 Paris, France
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- Service de Médecine et de Réadaptation, Clinique Les Trois Soleils Boissise-le-Roi, France
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- The Neuropsychological Laboratory, CNS-Fed Paris, France
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Urbanski M, Coubard OA, Bourlon C. Visualizing the blind brain: brain imaging of visual field defects from early recovery to rehabilitation techniques. Front Integr Neurosci 2014; 8:74. [PMID: 25324739 PMCID: PMC4179723 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 09/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Visual field defects (VFDs) are one of the most common consequences observed after brain injury, especially after a stroke in the posterior cerebral artery territory. Less frequently, tumors, traumatic brain injury, brain surgery or demyelination can also determine various visual disabilities, from a decrease in visual acuity to cerebral blindness. Visual field defects is a factor of bad functional prognosis as it compromises many daily life activities (e.g., obstacle avoidance, driving, and reading) and therefore the patient's quality of life. Spontaneous recovery seems to be limited and restricted to the first 6 months, with the best chance of improvement at 1 month. The possible mechanisms at work could be partly due to cortical reorganization in the visual areas (plasticity) and/or partly to the use of intact alternative visual routes, first identified in animal studies and possibly underlying the phenomenon of blindsight. Despite processes of early recovery, which is rarely complete, and learning of compensatory strategies, the patient's autonomy may still be compromised at more chronic stages. Therefore, various rehabilitation therapies based on neuroanatomical knowledge have been developed to improve VFDs. These use eye-movement training techniques (e.g., visual search, saccadic eye movements), reading training, visual field restitution (the Vision Restoration Therapy, VRT), or perceptual learning. In this review, we will focus on studies of human adults with acquired VFDs, which have used different imaging techniques (Positron Emission Tomography, PET; Diffusion Tensor Imaging, DTI; functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fMRI; Magneto Encephalography, MEG) or neurostimulation techniques (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, TMS; transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, tDCS) to show brain activations in the course of spontaneous recovery or after specific rehabilitation techniques.
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- Marika Urbanski
- Service de Médecine et de Réadaptation Gériatrique et Neurologique, Hôpitaux de Saint-Maurice Saint-Maurice, France ; Inserm, U 1127, ICM FrontLab Paris, France ; CNRS, UMR 7225, ICM FrontLab Paris, France ; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMRS 1127 Paris, France ; Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, ICM FrontLab Paris, France
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- The Neuropsychological Laboratory, CNS-Fed Paris, France ; Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, UMR 8242 CNRS-Université Paris Descartes Paris, France
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- Service de Médecine et de Réadaptation, Clinique Les Trois Soleils Boissise-le-Roi, France
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Bourlon C, Lehenaff L, Batifoulier C, Bordier A, Chatenet A, Desailly E, Fouchard C, Marsal M, Martinez M, Rastelli F, Thierry A, Bartolomeo P, Duret C. Dual-tasking postural control in patients with right brain damage. Gait Posture 2014; 39:188-93. [PMID: 23916691 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2013.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2011] [Revised: 04/30/2013] [Accepted: 07/01/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The control of dual-tasking effects is a daily challenge in stroke neurorehabilitation. It maybe one of the reasons why there is poor functional prognosis after a stroke in the right hemisphere, which plays a dominant role in posture control. The purpose of this study was to explore cognitive motor interference in right brain-lesioned and healthy subjects maintaining a standing position while performing three different tasks: a control task, a simple attentional task and a complex attentional task. We measured the sway area of the subjects on a force platform, including the center of pressure and its displacements. Results showed that stroke patients presented a reduced postural sway compared to healthy subjects, who were able to maintain their posture while performing a concomitant attentional task in the same dual-tasking conditions. Moreover, in both groups, the postural sway decreased with the increase in attentional load from cognitive tasks. We also noticed that the stability of stroke patients in dual-tasking conditions increased together with the weight-bearing rightward deviation, especially when the attentional load of the cognitive tasks and lower limb motor impairments were high. These results suggest that stroke patients and healthy subjects adopt a similar postural regulation pattern aimed at maintaining stability in dual-tasking conditions involving a static standing position and different attention-related cognitive tasks. Our results indicate that attention processes might facilitate static postural control.
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- Clémence Bourlon
- Service de Rééducation et de Réadaptation Fonctionnelle, Clinique Les Trois Soleils, Boissise le Roi, France.
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Bourlon C, Lehenaff L, Batifoulier C, Bordier A, Chatenet A, Desailly E, Fouchard C, Marsal M, Martinez M, Rastelli F, Thierry A, Bartolomeo P, Duret C. Interaction entre performances posturales et cognitives chez des patients cérébrolésés droits : une étude en double tâche. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2013.07.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lunven M, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Duret C, Bourlon C, Migliaccio R, Rode G, Bartolomeo P. Chronic neglect and disconnection of white matter pathways: A longitudinal study. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2013.07.1070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Bourlon C, Lehenaff L, Batifoulier C, Bordier A, Chatenet A, Desailly E, Fouchard C, Marsal M, Martinez M, Rastelli F, Thierry A, Bartolomeo P, Duret C. Interaction between postural and cognitive performances in right brain damaged patients: A dual task study. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2013.07.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Bourlon C, Oliviero B, Wattiez N, Pouget P, Bartolomeo P. Visual mental imagery: what the head's eye tells the mind's eye. Brain Res 2010; 1367:287-97. [PMID: 20969839 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.10.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2010] [Revised: 10/07/2010] [Accepted: 10/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The demonstration of an implication of attentional/eye gaze systems in visual mental imagery might help to understand why some patients with visual neglect, who suffer from severe attentional deficits, also show neglect for mental images. When normal participants generate mental images of previously explored visual scenes, their oculomotor behavior resembles that used during visual exploration. However, this could be a case of encoding specificity, whereby the probability of retrieving an event increases if some information encoded with the event (in this case its spatial location) is present at retrieval. In the present study, normal participants were invited to conjure up a mental image of the map of France and to say whether auditorily presented towns or regions were situated left or right of Paris. A perceptual version of the task was administered after the imaginal condition. Thus, in the imaginal condition participants had to retrieve information from long-term memory. Vocal response times and, unbeknownst to participants, also eye movements were recorded. Participants tended to produce similar eye movements on the imaginal and on the perceptual conditions of the task. We concluded that some mechanisms involved in spontaneous oculomotor behavior may be shared in exploration of visuospatial mental images. Deficits of these common processes participating in the oculomotor exploration might contribute to imaginal neglect.
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- Clémence Bourlon
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, Inserm UMR S975, CNRS 7225, Pavillon Claude Bernard, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière (AP-HP), Paris, France.
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Bourlon C, Chokron S, Bachoud-Lévi AC, Coubard O, Bergeras I, Moulignier A, Viret AC, Bartolomeo P. [Presentation of an assessment battery for visual mental imagery and visual perception]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2010; 165:1045-54. [PMID: 19487005 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2009.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2009] [Revised: 03/17/2009] [Accepted: 04/24/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The relationship between visual perception and visual mental imagery are at the center of a lively theoretical debate between those postulating common neurocognitive processes between perception and imagery and those who emphasize the differences between these two entities. Neuropsychology can make an important contribution to this debate, by assessing associations and dissociations between perceptual and imaginal deficits in patients with brain damage. However, currently there is no standardized test battery available for such assessments. MATERIAL AND METHODS Here we present a battery of paper-and-pencil tests assessing different domains of visual mental imagery and visual perception abilities: object form and color, animals, orthographic material, numbers, faces, and space. We also explored the effects of age, educational level and gender on performance on a group of 103 participants free of neurological damage. RESULTS The battery includes two parts: one composed of 14 tests assessing mental imagery and the second part composed of eight tests assessing the abilities of visual perception. We calculated the correlations between the tests, and found that, with the exception of orthographic material, there were generally poor correlations between imagery and perceptual tests. CONCLUSION This result seems inconsistent with hypotheses postulating a strict correspondence between perceptual and imagery abilities.
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- C Bourlon
- Inserm UMRS 975, pavillon Claude-Bernard, hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière (AP-HP), 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France; UPMC université Paris 06, Paris, France; Service de neurologie, clinique Les Trois Soleils, Boissise-le-Roi, France
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Bourlon C, Duret C, Pradat-Diehl P, Azouvi P, Loeper-Jény C, Merat-Blanchard M, Levy C, Chokron S, Bartolomeo P. Vocal response times to real and imagined stimuli in spatial neglect: A group study and single-case report. Cortex 2010; 47:536-46. [PMID: 20451178 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2009] [Revised: 01/13/2010] [Accepted: 02/19/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The relationships between spatial neglect for perceptual objects and representational for imagined items are difficult to explore because of several methodological problems, including the dearth of comparable tests for real and imagined scenes. We asked 19 patients with right brain damage and 12 healthy controls to say whether an auditorily presented French geographical location was left or right of Paris, and recorded their vocal response times. Afterwards, participants performed a similar test with visually presented items. Although several patients had asymmetries of performance on the perceptual version of the test, only one patient was more accurate for right-sided than for left-sided imagined stimuli, thus showing evidence for imaginal neglect. However, this patient performed normally on place description and on mental number line bisection, perhaps as a consequence of different strategies he employed for these tasks. Overall, our results confirm previous evidence showing that imaginal neglect is less frequent than, and often occurs in association with, perceptual neglect. Imaginal neglect may result from the contribution of deficits partly distinct from those implicated in perceptual neglect, such as impaired endogenous orienting of attention or deficits of spatial working memory.
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- Clémence Bourlon
- Service de Rééducation et de Réadaptation Fonctionnelle, Clinique Les Trois Soleils, Boissise le Roi, France.
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Cristinzio C, Bourlon C, Pradat-Diehl P, Trojano L, Grossi D, Chokron S, Bartolomeo P. Representational neglect in "invisible" drawing from memory. Cortex 2008; 45:313-7. [PMID: 18718580 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2007] [Revised: 01/02/2008] [Accepted: 03/11/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We describe the case of a patient with right hemisphere damage and left unilateral neglect. The patient was asked to draw from memory common objects, either with or without visual feedback. In the conditions without visual feedback the patient was either blindfolded or he made "invisible" drawings using a pen with the cap on, the drawings being recorded with carbon paper underneath. Results showed more neglect without than with visual feedback, contrary to previously published cases. This patient's pattern of performance may result from the contribution of a deficit of spatial working memory. Alternatively or in addition, the patient, who was undergoing cognitive rehabilitation for neglect, may have found easier to compensate for his neglect with visual feedback, which allowed him to visually explore the left part of his drawings.
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Bourlon C, Pradat-Diehl P, Duret C, Azouvi P, Bartolomeo P. Seeing and imagining the "same" objects in unilateral neglect. Neuropsychologia 2008; 46:2602-6. [PMID: 18486952 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2007] [Revised: 03/31/2008] [Accepted: 04/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Dissociations between perceptual and imaginal neglect are typically investigated by using very different tasks (e.g. visual target cancellation vs. place descriptions). Here we report patients' performance on imaginal and perceptual tasks which shared identical stimuli and procedure, except for the modality of stimulus presentation. In different tasks, participants either saw towns/regions on a map of France or heard their names, and pressed one of two keys according to the stimulus location (left or right of Paris). Neglect patients as a group were less accurate for left-sided stimuli in both modalities, but on single-case analysis only one patient with perceptual neglect had asymmetrical imaginal accuracy. These results confirmed that imaginal neglect is relatively rare, and is usually associated with perceptual neglect. Perceptual neglect resulted more frequent and severe than imaginal neglect, also when assessed using strictly comparable tests, consistent with the exogenous orienting bias typically observed in these patients.
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- Clémence Bourlon
- INSERM UMR_S 610, IFR 70, Pavillon Claude Bernard, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.
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Urbanski M, Angeli V, Bourlon C, Cristinzio C, Ponticorvo M, Rastelli F, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Bartolomeo P. Négligence spatiale unilatérale : une conséquence dramatique mais souvent négligée des lésions de l’hémisphère droit. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2007; 163:305-22. [PMID: 17404518 DOI: 10.1016/s0035-3787(07)90403-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Unilateral Spatial Neglect (USN) is a common consequence of right brain damage. In the most severe cases, behavioral signs of USN can last several years and compromise patients' autonomy and social rehabilitation. These clinical facts stress the need for reliable procedures of diagnosis and rehabilitation. STATE OF THE ART The last 3 decades have witnessed an explosion of studies on USN, which raises issues related to complex cognitive activities such as mental representation, spatial attention and consciousness. USN is probably a heterogeneous syndrome, but some of its underlying mechanisms might be understood as an association of disorders of spatial attention. A bias of automatic orienting towards right-sided objects seems typical of left USN. Afterwards, patients find it difficult to disengage their attention in order to explore the rest of the visual scene. Neglected objects are sometimes processed in an "implicit" way. PERSPECTIVES The development of behavioural paradigms and of neuroimaging techniques and their application to the study of USN has advanced our understanding of the functional mechanisms of attention and spatial awareness, as well as of their neural bases. A number of new procedures for rehabilitation have recently been proposed. CONCLUSION The present review describes the clinical presentation of USN, its anatomical basis and some of possible accounts of different aspects of neglect behavior. Results of computer simulations and of rehabilitation techniques are also presented with implications for the functioning of normal neurocognitive systems.
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- M Urbanski
- INSERM U610, Pavillon Claude Bernard, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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