Abstract
Attentional disorders and their rehabilitation were studied in patients with cerebrovascular disease, and the following observations were made. 1) Attentional disorders occur in cerebrovascular desease regardless of whether the left or right side of the brain is damaged. However, rehabilitation is often very difficult in patients with right brain damage and in these cases it is thought that the appearance of attentional disorders together with a variety of non-dominant hemisphere syndromes is a distinctive feature. A therapeutic program for treating the attentional disorders of patients with cerebrovascular desease must be based on this knowledge. 2) In order to detect an impediment in pacing, we designed a figure tracing task which can be applied to either left or right brain damage. The findings suggest that many points emerged in patients with right brain damage. 3) We introduce an actual rehabilitation program for patients with early onset or chronic right brain damage with attentional disorders and then briefly discuss the efficacy of the rehabilitation therapy.
