Normative Data for Ninety-Three Elderly Persons on the Schenkenberg Line Bisection Test

Abstract

Data are presented for 93 non-brain damaged elderly Wisconsin residents on a test of unilateral neglect. This line bisection test, reported by Schenkenberg and colleagues (1980) to discriminate, among patients with and without neglect, can, with the normative information reported here, be used to identify presence of, and severity of, unilateral neglect in the brain damaged elderly patient. Any apparent neglect should, however, be confirmed by other evaluation procedures.