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Hemispatial neglect is a dramatic and protean neurologic syndrome. In this study, researchers examined the clinical characteristics, neglect subtypes, lesion locations, and affiliated conditions in 166 patients after right-hemisphere strokes; participants were recruited from rehabilitation services and were fairly evenly distributed between acute (<6 weeks poststroke) and chronic (3 months to 3 years poststroke) groups. Patients underwent routine clinical and more specialized tests of neglect and were administered an anosognosia scale and a clinical-severity test (the functional independence measure). The researchers questioned the patients' family members about caregiver burden and identified locations and numbers of lesions from available…