If someone suffers a stroke and the right parietal lobe is injured (especially at the Angular Gyrus), Contralateral Neglect Syndrome (AKA Spatial Neglect) can manifest. This is a really interesting disorder that renders the sufferer of the stroke unable to acknowledge his/her left side. Not only does the victim neglect the left side of his/her own body, but they don’t acknowledge the left side of anything. If you see someone walking around half dressed, with their left arm and leg unclothed, it may be because they couldn’t acknowledge that they had a left side when getting dressed that morning. Also, if you asked them to draw a house or anything else, they would only draw you the right half of it, as if the left half of the house didn’t exist. Also, these people get lost in their own houses, always opening doors on the right, being unable to acknowledge doors on the left. Another example is that even if one of these people was starving, they would starve to death with food on the left side of their plate! Of course, I’m sure a lot of you have already figured out that all of this has to do with how the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and perception. I’m not exactly clear on the details regarding this phenomenon, so I’ll ask my professor tomorrow and update this segment.

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