title: Boy with cortical visual impairment and unilateral hemiparesis in Jeff Huntington's "Slip" (2011).
abstract: Face recognition is strongly associated with the human face and face perception is an important part in identifying health qualities of a person and is an integral part of so called spot diagnosis in clinical neurology. Neurology depends in part on observation, description and interpretation of visual information. Similar skills are required in visual art. Here we report a case of eye cortical visual impairment (CVI) and unilateral facial weakness in a boy depicted by the painter Jeff Huntington (2011). The corollary of this is that art serves medical clinical exercise. Art interpretation helps neurology students to apply the same skills they will use in clinical experience and to develop their observational and interpretive skills in non-clinical settings. Furthermore, the development of an increased awareness of emotional and character expression in the human face may facilitate successful doctor-patient relationships.
authors: Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, Legal Medicine Section, University of Turin, Corso Galileo Galilei, 22 10126 Turin, Italy; UMR 7268, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Secteur Nord Batiment A - CS80011 Bd Pierre Dramard, 13344 Marseille Cedex 15, France. Electronic address: raffaella.bianucci@unito.it.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Bianucci
authors: Department of Medicine, "San Giovanni di Dio" Hospital, Via Fatebenefratelli, 34, Gorizia, Italy.
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authors: Perciaccante
authors: New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation, 361 Ridge Horne, Albuquerque, NM, USA; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
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authors: Appenzeller
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005146:Facial Asymmetry / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: 21st century art; Creativity; Fusiform cortex lesions; Spot diagnoses