Visual hemispatial neglect is a behavior deficit due to brain damage affecting mostly temporoparietal junction region of the right hemisphere. There is a controversial finding of various studies regarding the spatial reference of the disorder. Some study reported that space-centered neglect (egocentric) neglect and object-centered (allocentric) neglect are two dissociable disorder while other reported that the two types of neglects are the spectrum of a disorder that share a same basic mechanism. The case presented here is a man with suspected high-grade glioma affecting the perisylvian region to the angular gyrus. Both egocentric and allocentric neglect features are revealed through the neurobehavior test performed to the patient.
Key words: visual hemineglect, egocentric neglect, allocentric neglect, case report, spatial frames of hemineglect
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