Prof. Gilles Rode | Novel Insights in Rehabilitation of Visuospatial Neglect | ISPRM 2025

Before the ISPRM 2025 Congress in Marrakech, Dr. Muhammad Tawab Khalil (Co-Chair of the ISPRM Communications Committee) sat down with Prof. Gilles Rode for an exclusive interview.

Prof. Rode — Medical Director of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at Hospices Civils de Lyon and Dean of the Lyon-Est Faculty of Medicine, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 — will be delivering a keynote lecture at ISPRM 2025:
“Novel Insights in the Rehabilitation of Unilateral Visuospatial Neglect”
Friday, November 7, 2025
12:00 – 12:30 (Plenary Session)

In this interview, Prof. Rode explains why visuospatial neglect is one of the most severe cognitive disorders after right brain injury, and how rehabilitation medicine is exploring innovative approaches — from top-down and bottom-up strategies to neuromodulation, virtual reality, and even artistic activity.