Medical News: Rehab Improves Attention Deficits in Stroke Survivors - in Neurology, Strokes from MedPage Today

By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today A rehabilitation program for impaired attention was successful in patients who had suffered a stroke, a randomized trial showed. Compared with patients who received standard post-stroke care, those who underwent attention process training had significantly greater gains on a measure of attention at six months (P=0.0004), according to Suzanne Barker-Collo, PhD, of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and colleagues. The improvements were not associated with better clinical outcomes on measures of quality of life and disability, the researchers reported online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Read More