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Adaptation prismatique chez le patient héminégligent : bases neuronales et plasticité cérébrale

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Auteur / Autrice : Jacques Luauté
Direction : Gilles RodeYves Rossetti
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Neurosciences
Date : Soutenance en 2007
Etablissement(s) : Lyon 1

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In the first part of this dissertation, the interest of prism adaptation as a rehabilitation technique for hemispatial neglect is discussed in two reviews. The focus of the second part concerns the mechanisms involved in the therapeutic effect of prism adaptation. We first tested the “referential hypothesis” which supposes that adaptation to right prisms, with leftward after-effects, improves neglect through a reduction of the right bias of the egocentric frame of reference. In order to test this hypothesis, the effects of left prisms adaptation were assessed and compared to those already known of right prism adaptation. The absence of neglect improvement after left prism adaptation supports the referential hypothesis and highlights a directional specificity of the cognitive effects of prism adaptation. We than used functional imagery to investigate the anatomical substrates underlying the beneficial effect of prism adaptation. The network of significant brain regions associated with improvement of neglect performance produced by prism adaptation involved the right cerebellum and several cortical regions which could subserve the cognitive effects of prism adaptation in neglect patients.