Hemineglect is a neurological disorder where a person is unaware of or unresponsive to one side of space...
Hemineglect-fuls (?) are not even "AWARE" that there is another side of "SPACE". What do you mean, left? What's down? Imagine, as USMLE students do in the question fact patterns, a patient coming into your office and he is unaware that you have a left side of your FACE!!!!!!!!! Or of HIS face. "How'd you get here, sir? Hope you didn't drive, I hope, I hope, I hope."
Neurology is fascinating to me. It has NEVER been more fascinating than today when we had a question fact pattern that included hemineglect as one of the symptoms. "What's that?" I asked Dr. Ana. She explained but I wasn't getting it and so googled.
Hemineglect is a neurological disorder where a person is unaware of or unresponsive to one side of space, typically the left side, following damage to the opposite side of the brain, most commonly the right parietal lobe. Symptoms include ignoring food on one side of a plate, dressing only one side of the body, and sometimes disowning limbs on the neglected side. This differs from a visual field cut because it is a disorder of attention, not sight.
"THEY'RE NOT AWARE OF ONE SIDE OF SPACE?!" I exclaimed out loud (in a library).
I never heard of anything like that in my fucking life. (I assume we got the answer wrong). It short-circuited my synapses. Most fascinating thing I ever came across.
