title: Unilateral neglect syndrome: clinical and topographic study of 20 subjects.
abstract: Twenty patients with unilateral neglect syndrome were studied. They were 10 males and 10 females, and they ranged from 29 to 76 years of age. All were submitted to a CAT scan of the brain. Based on the findings in our sample we drew the following conclusions: the extinction phenomenon was a constant manifestation of unilateral neglect; the line crossing test proved to be most efficient for the identification of visual neglect; the right parietal lobe was the anatomical region most often involved in the unilateral neglect syndrome.
authors: Disciplina de Neurologia, Faculdade de Ciéncias Médicas, Santa Casa de São Paulo, Brasil.
authors: L R
authors: LR
authors: Pinto Júnior
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Saraiva
authors: W L
authors: WL
authors: Sanvito
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013028:Space Perception; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014796:Visual Perception