Provide a detailed description of spatial neglect.
What will be an ideal response?
Brain damage can produce special types of attention problems. Many people with damage to the right hemisphere show spatial neglect-a tendency to ignore the left side of the body, the left side of objects, much of what they hear in the left ear, and much of what they feel in the left hand, especially in the presence of any competing sensation from the right side. Some people have been known to put clothes on only the right side of the body. These effects are most pronounced early after a stroke or other damage, and most people show at least partial recovery over the next 10 to 20 weeks. (Damage in the left hemisphere seldom produces significant neglect of the right side.) If asked to point straight ahead, most patients with neglect point to the right of center. If a patient with neglect is shown a long horizontal line and asked to divide it in half, generally he or she picks a spot well to the right of center, as if part of the left side wasn't there
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