Visual hemineglect and hemihallucinations in a patient with a subcortical infarction.
An alcoholic patient with a mainly right subcortical infarction developed contralateral left-sided neglect and then, in the context of alcohol withdrawal, unilateral hallucinations in the non-neglected right hemispace. It is hypothesized that an interruption of the striatocortical pathways could prevent the right hemisphere from representing appropriately internally produced stimuli.
Chamorro
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Department of Neurology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY.
Sacco
R L
RL
Ciecierski
K
K
Binder
J R
JR
Tatemichi
T K
TK
Mohr
J P
JP
D000328:Adult; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*