Right Hemisphere Damage

Question 1

Right Hemisphere Damage

Answer 1

Group of deficits that result from injury to the right hemisphere of the brain.
Non Dominant hemisphere for language functions

Question 2

Stroke Rate for RHD

Answer 2

50% of people who have strokes have them in right side

Question 3

Language Processing

Answer 3

Nonlinguistic and paralinguistic info processed on RH

Question 4

Greater role in processing…

Answer 4

Emotion in nonverbal contexts

Question 5

Characteristics

Answer 5

Neglect of all info from the left side
Unrealistic denial of illness of limb involvement
Impaired judgement and self monitoring
Lack of Motivation
Inattention

Question 6

3 Disturbances

Answer 6

Attentional: lack of response to info from left side
Visuospatial: poor visual discrimination, poor scanning/tracking
Communicative: pragmatics most impaired, linguistic difficulties occur in both receptive and expressive
Concrete understanding