Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: A 74-year-old, left-handed man presented with a rapidly evolving loss of strength in his right leg associated with difficulty in walking. MR images disclosed an extensive left hemisphere tumor. A neuropsychological examination revealed that language was broadly normal but that the patient presented with severe nonlinguistic abnormalities, including hemineglect (both somatic and spatial), constructional defects, and general spatial disturbances; symptoms were usually associated with right hemisphere pathologies. No ideomotor apraxia was found. The implications of crossed-brain representations of verbal and nonverbal functions are analyzed.
DOI: 10.1155/2015/301297
Authors: Esmeralda Matute, Alfredo Ardila, Monica Rosselli, Jahaziel Molina Del Rio, Ramiro López Elizalde, Manuel López, Angel Ontiveros
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $790
OpenAlex ID: W1976846580