Unilateral Neglect
Subtitle: Clinical And Experimental Studies (Brain Damage, Behaviour, and Cognition)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: July 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780863772085
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Physiological & neuro-psychology; Psychiatry; Neuropsychology; Medical / Nursing; Psychology; General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Neuropsychology; Movements - Psychoanalysis
First sentence: Of the many neuropsychological consequences that follow right hemisphere brain damage, few are as striking or as puzzling as when a patient without impairment of intellectual functioning appears to ignore, forget or turn away from the left side of space-as if that half of the world had abruptly ceased to exist it any meaningful form (Mesulam, 1985).