Motor imagery in chronic neglect: An fMRI pilot study.

These initial results demonstrate motor imagery capacity in patients with chronic neglect via compensatory neural processing during motor imagery of the affected hand in ipsilateral brain regions, since we found that the supplementary motor area appears to be specifically related to neglect severity. Although our results must be treated with caution due to the small sample size and missing control group, they indicate that neglect is not necessarily an exclusion criterion for motor imagery training per se.