The efficacy of an innovative rehabilitation treatment for deficit in time processing is tested in right brain damaged patients. Patients with a focal lesion following a stroke and without general cognitive impairment will be submitted to computerized tests assessing the ability to estimate time duration (intervals around 7500 ms) and to mental travel in time. Moreover, the impact of the deficit in time processing in everyday life will be evaluated by using ad hoc questionnaires. Patients will perform tasks before and after two weeks of a new rehabilitation treatment, combining a training for one week with prismatic googles inducing prismatic adaptation (PA) plus Virtual Reality (VR) and a training for one week with neutral googles inducing no-adaptation (NA) plus Virtual Reality. Participants will be randomized into two groups. Each group will be submitted to both treatments in a different order, accordingly with a crossover design. A greater amelioration in time processing after PA+VR than NA+VR training should be found. Moreover, an improvement in everyday life activities is expected accordingly with the amelioration in time processing.
Age range
45 Years – 85 Years
Sex
ALL
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Change in Mental Time Travel Ability on the Mental Time Travel (MTT) Task
Timeframe: baseline, after one week treatment (T1), after two weeks treatment (T2), one week after the end of treatment (follow-up)
Change in Time Estimation Ability on the Time Estimation Task
Timeframe: baseline, after one week treatment (T1), after two weeks treatment (T2), one week after the end of treatment (follow-up)
Change in Time Reproduction Ability on the Time Reproduction Task
Timeframe: baseline, after one week treatment (T1), after two weeks treatment (T2), one week after the end of treatment (follow-up)