Hemineglect is the difficulty individuals present to get oriented, act or respond to stimuli or actions that occur on the contralateral side to a hemispheric lesion, ...medigraphic.comSPANISHThisjournalonly2012,Number4Medisur2012;10(4)HemineglectandHemianopia.ACaseReportLópezAJ,AlfonsoLD,BarbozaSS,PérezMDFulltextHowtocitethisarticleLanguage:SpanishReferences:15Page:318-321PDFsize:137.98Kb.Keywords:braindiseases,parietallobe,cerebralcortex,casereport.ABSTRACTHemineglectisthedifficultyindividualspresenttogetoriented,actorrespondtostimulioractionsthatoccuronthecontralateralsidetoahemisphericlesion,whichisnotcausedbyelementarysensoryormotordisorders.Ithasbeentypicallydescribedbylesionsinvolvingtheparietallobe,primarilytherightone.Inhemineglect,thereisalossofsensoryinputconfigurationtothebrain,especiallytheneocortex;consideringthattheparietallobescontainthebodyschemaandmediatespatialperception,topographyisoftendescribedpreciselyinthem.Wereportthecaseofapatientwithacombinationofhemineglectandhemianopia,withlesionsinseveralcorticalareas.Thepatientshowedalmostallthefeaturesofthesyndrome,neverthelessmaintainedintactreading-relatedfunctions.REFERENCESAllegriRF.Atenciónynegligencia:basesneurológicas,evaluaciónytrastornos.RevNeurol.2000;30(5):491-5.BrighinaF,BisiachE,PiazzaA,OliveriM,LaBuaV,DanieleO,etal.Perceptualandresponsebiasinvisuospatialneglectduetofrontalandparietalrepetitivetranscranialmagneticstimulationinnormalsubjects.Neuroreport.2002;13(18):2571-5.TomaiuoloF,VociL,BresciM,CozzaS,PosteraroF,OlivaM,etal.Selectivevisualneglectinrightbraindamagedpatientswithsplenialinterhemisphericdisconnection.ExpBrainRes.2010;206(2):209-17.DongX,SimonMA,EvansD.Elderself-neglectandhospitalization:findingsfromtheChicagoHealthandAgingProject.JAmGeriatrSoc.2012;60(2):202-9.DongX,SimonMA,MosquedaL,EvansDA.Theprevalenceofelderself-neglectinacommunity-dwellingpopulation:hoarding,hygiene,andenvironmentalhazards.JAgingHealth.2012;24(3):507-24.BaasU,deHaanB,GrassliT,KarnathHO,MueriR,PerrigWJ,et