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rietal lesions

Strokes of life.

Spatial neglect, also called hemispatial neglect, unilateral neglect, or hemi-inattention is a serious and disabling consequence of stroke. It can be defined as a defective ability to explore or attend to stimuli presented on the side contralateral to the brain lesion. This inattention towards one side of space is, by definition, not caused by visual impairments (visual field defects). Typically, there is no sharp border between neglected and non-neglected space; the blurred demarcation line rather changes along a continuum, which may vary depending on the context. Neglect is predominantly associated with lesions to the right side of the brain and causes the neglect of the left side of space. Neglect can result in numerous bizarre and debilitating behaviours: Patients with right brain damage may collide with obstacles on their left, eat food only from the right side of their plate, ignore people situated on their left, or fail to dress or shave their left side. In some cases patients may behave as if the left half of their world had ceased to exist and in many cases they do not even realize that something is wrong.

Information credits :

https://brainfoundation.org.au/images/stories/applicant_essays/2012_essays/Spatial_neglect_-_Loetscher_Tobias.pdf