Right Hemisphere Disorders

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Right Hemisphere Disorders

Group of deficits or changes that may occur following injury to a person's right cerebral hemisphere.

Etiology

A cause or set of causes; in this context, refers to the causes of Right Hemisphere Disorders.

Prosody

Interprets emotional tone in speech, including pitch, stress, rhythm, and tempo.

Facial Recognition (Prosopagnosia)

Inability to recognize faces in the absence of other visual agnosia.

Simultagnosia

Inability to visually perceive multiple details at one time; often due to lesion at the parietal-occipital area.

Capgras Delusion

Delusional belief that familiar people have been replaced by identical impostors; recognizes faces but lacks emotional connection.

Fregoli Delusion

Delusional belief that different people are, in fact, a single person in disguise.

Hemispatial Neglect

Inattention to one side of external space, often the left, due to damage in the right hemisphere.

Body Neglect

Reduced awareness or attention to one side of the body, typically the left.

Somatophrenia

Extreme form of body neglect involving denial of ownership of a limb.

Inferencing

The ability to put together small details for perception of a larger picture.

Discourse Deficits

Disruptions in pragmatic language skills affecting conversation exchange.