Neuroimaging of eye position reveals spatial neglect: a commentary
Author(s) -
Fábio Henrique de Gobbi Porto,
M.-N. Maia da Silva,
Gabriel R. de Freitas,
Ricardo Nitríni
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
brain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.142
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1460-2156
pISSN - 0006-8950
DOI - 10.1093/brain/awq121
Subject(s) - neuroimaging , neglect , neuroscience , psychology , position (finance) , psychiatry , finance , economics
Sir, We read with great interest the recent paper published in Brain by Becker and Karnath (2010). We are particularly interested in the presence of unsustained gaze deviation during clinical assessment in their series.Recently, we reported a patient who presented with a left-sided facio-brachio-crural paresis, left hypoaesthesia, dysarthria and left-sided spatial neglect, scoring 7 on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). The patient did not have sustained gaze deviation on neurological exam, but …
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