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SMARTneurolab | New paper about The Mobility Assessment Course (MAC) online!

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Posted on 22 April 2022 by Eileen Bousché
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New paper about The Mobility Assessment Course (MAC) online!

The mobility assessment course: A ready‐to‐use dynamic measure of visuospatial neglect.

Nelemans, K. N., Nijboer, T. C. W., ten Brink, A. F., Brinkhof, E., Haver, O., Jansen, M., van de Moosdijk, C., & Timmerarends, A. (2022).  Journal of Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12277

The Mobility Assessment Course (MAC) is an intuitive task to assess visuospatial neglect. Patients must search for targets in the corridors of, for example, their rehabilitation facility.

Example of a part of the route with a target (yellow square; left-hand side of the figure) and arrow pointing to the left (center of the figure) used in the Mobility Assessment Course.

We implemented the MAC as part of a neglect assessment in De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation center, and found that 82% of stroke patients could complete the MAC. The MAC had a lower sensitivity and higher specificity than paper-and-pencil tasks and observations of neglect in daily life. The MAC is an easy-to-implement tool to evaluate neglect in a dynamic manner, which can be administered in addition to conventional paper-and-pencil tasks.