ALTERED PERCEPTION: HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT

 

BACKGROUND OF HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT:

  • This condition makes half of your brain invisible
  • Usually leads to having a stroke, at which will eventually lead to ignoring half of the world. Example of this, a patient might neglect to eat half of their food on her plate, despite still being hungry
  • Or she  may draw a clock face only showing the numbers 12 to 6
  • Usually, half of the brain is injured which causes perception to only see half of an object. In other words, the person can no longer see or process information from the side of the body or environment.
  • Another example of this condition is someone who has a beard. In this case, someone with HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT might only see the right side of someone’s face (So basically the left side of someone face will be clear, whereas the right side with facial hair )which means the right side of the Individual Brain is affected.

IMAGES DEPICTING HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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