a symptom of brain damage in which a person is unaware of one side of his or her body and of anything in the external world on the same side
Examples of 'unilateral neglect' in a sentence
unilateral neglect
Twenty patients with unilateral neglect syndrome were studied.
Luciano Ribeiro Pinto Jr., Sylvio Saraiva, Wilson Luiz Sanvito 1990, 'Unilateral neglect syndrome clinical and topographic study of 20 subjects', Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatriahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1990000200008&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Patients with unilateral neglect are impaired at making saccades to contralesional targets.
Marlene Behrmann, Thea Ghiselli-Crippa, Ilaria Dimatteo 2002, 'Impaired Initiation But Not Execution of Contralesional Saccades in Hemispatial Neglect',Behavioural Neurology http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2002/253201. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Patients affected by unilateral neglect show less functional recovery and experience severe difficulties in everyday life.
Margarete Delazer, Martin Sojer, Philipp Ellmerer, Christian Boehme, Thomas Benke 2018, 'Eye-Tracking Provides a Sensitive Measure of Exploration Deficits After Acute RightMCA Stroke', Frontiers in Neurologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2018.00359/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We report here the improvement of imagined neglect after prism exposure in a patient with a left unilateral neglect.
Gilles Rode, Yves Rossetti, Ling Li, Dominique Boisson 1999, 'Improvement of Mental Imagery after Prism Exposure in Neglect: A Case Study', Behavioural Neurology http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1999/797425. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The present study aimed to analyze putative modulation of spatial attention by eye gaze direction in patients with unilateral neglect.
Miguel Leal Rato, Inês Mares, Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Atsushi Senju, Isabel Pavão Martins,Isabel Pavão Martins 2019, 'Direct Gaze Partially Overcomes Hemispatial Neglect and Captures Spatial Attention',Frontiers in Psychologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02702/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)