STROKE-ATTENTION (NON PHARMACOLOGIC) MGM

SUMMARY

TASKS
1. Most interventions relied on drills and practice used within stimulus-response paradigm.
2. Gains made during speeded tasks are less durable than gains made via non-speeded tasks.
3. Greater benefit observed from attention training on complex tasks requiring selective or divided attention when compared to basic tasks.

BENEFITS
4. There is moderate evidence that visual attention retraining can help with on-road driving test performance.
5. There is moderate evidence that attention process training may improve attention deficits post stroke.
6. There is limited evidence that computer-assisted training of attention may improve performance of specific attention tasks.

Reference(s)

Wilkinson, I., Furmedge, D. and Sinharay, R. (2017). Oxford handbook of clinical medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Get it on Amazon.
Feather, A., Randall, D. and Waterhouse, M. (2020). Kumar And Clark’s Clinical Medicine. 10th ed. S.L.: Elsevier Health Sciences. Get it on Amazon.
Hannaman, R. A., Bullock, L., Hatchell, C. A., & Yoffe, M. (2016). Internal medicine review core curriculum, 2017-2018. CO Springs, CO: MedStudy.
Therapeutic Guidelines. Melbourne: Therapeutic Guidelines Limited. https://www.tg.org.au [Accessed 2021].