title: Failure to paint the left quarter of a watercolor and no error in a line drawing: a case report of an art teacher with unilateral spatial neglect.
abstract: A 54-year-old art teacher, experienced a right putaminal hemorrhage, and thereafter suffered severe left hemiplegia and unilateral spatial neglect, and was transferred to the rehabilitation department of the University Hospital 1 month after the onset. Although the unilateral spatial neglect was improving, the patient was unable to paint the left quarter of a watercolor, but there was no error in line drawing. The occurrence of errors only in a watercolor suggests that the neural process for painting a watercolor is different from that of line drawing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan. minako3med@mail.goo.ne.jp
authors.forename: Minako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Toshiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Kenichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Makino
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okazaki
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hachisuka
mesh_terms: D007839:Functional Laterality; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology