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Visual hemineglect and hemihallucinations in a patient with a subcortical infarction
A Chamorro1, R L Sacco, K Ciecierski
1Department of Neurology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY.
Neurology
|September 1, 1990
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.