Review Article

Neuropsychological Changes in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)

Table 3

Poststroke hemispatial neglect symptoms.

DomainsCategoriesDeficits

ModalityPerceptual neglectDifficulty with allocating attention to visual, tactile, or auditory stimuli appearing on the contralesional side of space
Motor neglectReduced or slowed movements using the contralesional limb that cannot be attributed to primary motor deficit; reduced or slowed movements in/towards the contralesional side of space
Representational neglectProblems imagining or visualising the contralesional side of scenes

Reference frameEgocentricUnderrepresentation of contralesional side of space in relation to one’s own body/body parts (e.g., subjective estimate of one’s body midline or straight ahead shifted towards the ipsilesional side)
AllocentricUnderrepresentation of contralesional side of spatial relationships between external objects separated in space (e.g., bisections of straight line shifted toward the end corresponding to the ipsilesional side)

Region of spacePersonalReduced attention to contralesional side of the body
PeripersonalReduced attention to contralesional side of the space within one’s reach
ExtrapersonalReduced attention to contralesional side of the space beyond one’s reach