Hemispatial neglect

Visual Neglect Patients: Methods in Exploring Perceptual Deficits This essay holds the purpose of critically analysing the methods used in regards to visceral inabilities in visual neglect patients. Visual neglect is a failure to attend or respond to a specific side of meaningful stimulus typically following a lesion on the brain. It goes by the names unilateral neglect, hemi-inattention (Robertson & Halligan, 2014), hemispatial neglect (Luukkainen-Markkula, Tarkka, Pitkanen, Sivenius, & Hamalainen, 2009), visuo-spatial neglect (Luaute, Halligan, Rode, Rossetti, & Boisson, 2006), hemiagnosia, and many more. Various methods have been designed to reduce and treat this disability such as copy drawing tasks, line cancellation task, visual scanning training (VST), arm activation, reading task, visual reality training (VRT), sustained attention training (SAT), and bilateral stimulation. However, this essay will only discuss on the VST and VRT. Visual scanning training (VST) is the act of re-orientation of visual scanning (involuntary movement of the eye) of the neglected side of the brain. VST is done by a training system whereby instruction are given to…

Researchers are always searching for new and creative ways to consider and repair one of our most precious and sensitive organs, the brain. Here we are, in 2016, finding that one of the best solutions after all may also be the one no one was expecting, music therapy. Music therapy is one of the fastest growing fields in this generation, and every year that the programs improve, more lives are saved. There have been many instances where the study of the effect of music in the brain has been…

Americans to see the pandemic scope of child abuse in the United States for the first time. Despite these advances, it was not until Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 (CAPTA) that the federal government designated an agency to administer the prevention, identification and treatment of child abuse and neglect. CAPTA authorized federal funds to help states improve their investigation and reporting of child abuse and neglect; the newly created National Center…

As cases start to arise, parental abuse starts to become a common recurring factor. One of the most famous American serial killer, Edward Gein an atrociously notorious grave digger, and the serial killer was known for his mutilation of human body parts and scavenging graves of those already dead to manifest their body parts to create himself, essentially a new skin. At first, he appears to be a psychotic gentleman that hacks and engulfs his victim, however, his problems seem to spur from an…

Did you know that in concurrence to UNICEF each year almost 3,500 children die from physical abuse and/or neglect under the age of 15? Or that according to the non-profitable organization Child help in the United States, 3.3 million accounts of child abuse are made per year involving nearly 6 million children? From these statistics you can see how big a controversy child abuse is and how frequently it occurs. Surprisingly, child abuse is more common in developed countries than undeveloped…

Code 63.2-100 which gives that the definitions of abuse and neglect as well as the different types. This code is used often throughout the agency when there founded abuse of a child. This code begins by stating that said abuse must be done by the child’s parent or the person responsible for the child’s care. So this means that if there is a child’s uncle physically or sexually abusing her but he is not the child’s care taker it is not a social workers responsibility to remove the child unless…

whose parents or legal custodians are unfit to care for him or her because of cruelty, immorality, or incapacity.” (Garner, 2009, pg. 300.) The concept of child neglect is one of the main issues that the criminal justice system focuses on. The following are also categories that go with a form of child neglect: medical, emotional, educational, physical neglect and the lack of supervision and guidance. (Recognizing and Helping the Neglected Child. “Understanding Child Neglect.” Pg.13.) Physical…

annually in medical and other cost.” (Nguyen 2014). To think so much is spent on child welfare they would really push to enforce the law of stopping abuse, neglect and maltreatment within the United States. That was only annually they also broke it down to the possible cost of a single case of child maltreatment. “The lifetime costs of a single case of child maltreatment more than $228,000, which is the equivalent to someone having type 2 diabetes or someone with a stroke.” (Nguyen 2014). The…

Child neglect involves acts of omission, but there is no consensus as to whether the focus should be on the child’s unmet needs, the parents’ or guardians’ behavior, or actual/potential harm to children (Tang, 2008). White & Hoskins (2011) defined neglect as an act of omission that results in the failure to provide for a child’s basic needs, which in turn results in the harm of the child. In her definition of child neglect, Tang (2008) divides the child’s unmet basic needs into two categories –…

agencies that involves are police, teachers, children doctors, health visitors, school nurses, GP’s, social workers, family and children when there is a case like abuse or suspect of significant harm of a child. The case study talks about a child called Amie who is exposed to abuse such as physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect, which can take a great impact on her welfare. Amie is a vulnerable child who leaves dependent on her parents with her other siblings.) According to Parliament UK…