Visual hemineglect and hemihallucinations in a patient with a subcortical infarction.

Chamorro, A; Sacco, R L; Ciecierski, K; Binder, J R; Tatemichi, T K; Mohr, J P · Neurology · 1990

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

An alcoholic patient with a mainly right subcortical infarction developed contralateral left-sided neglect and then, in the context of alcohol withdrawal, unilateral hallucinations in the non-neglected right hemispace. It is hypothesized that an interruption of the striatocortical pathways could prevent the right hemisphere from representing appropriately internally produced stimuli.

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