Visual loss from a stroke can manifest in a number of different ways that cut off vision in only half of one eye or in one-half of both eyes, often referred to as hemianopsia. It can be the top/bottom ...

Six hours later the patient suddenly developed weakness and numbness in her left body, homonymous hemianopsia, neglect and dysarthria (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale 13 (NIHSS 13)). A ...

But here it is question, as Krapf shows, of instrumental phenomena farther away from the ego than authentic depersonalization (Krapf refers to the cases of disrealization with hemianopsia or ...

An occipital stroke happens in the back of the brain. This lobe, or part of the brain, helps people to recognize what they see. That means strokes in the occipital lobe can cause vision changes, which ...

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Background Hemianopia commonly complicates stroke and, less frequently, head injury and brain tumours. Patients' activities of daily living are often affected although these can be ameliorated by ...