Confrontation naming of 52 unilateral or bilateral brain-damaged Chinese patients were examined with a modified version of the Boston Naming Test (BNT). Chinese patients with left or right hemisphere lesions, contrary to studies on English speakers, demonstrated similar levels of naming impairments, supporting the notion that English and Chinese are mediated by different neuroprocessing systems...

The effect of lateralized cerebral damage on free recall of items and recall of spatial location, under intentional and incidental learning conditions, was investigated. Eleven right brain-damaged (RBD) patients, 10 left brain-damaged (LBD) patients, 14 young and 11 elderly normal controls, participated in this study. The overall performance of the control groups was better than that of the pat...

The ability to reappraise the emotional impact of events is related to long-term mental health. Self-focused reappraisal (REAPPself), i.e., reducing the personal relevance of the negative events, has been previously associated with neural activity in regions near right medial prefrontal cortex, but rarely investigated among brain-damaged individuals. Thus, we aimed to examine the REAPPself abil...

OBJECTIVE To quantitate a size distortion involving the side of space contralateral to the lesion (contralesional) in two right-brain-damaged patients. METHODS We studied two right-brain-damaged patients with lesions sparing the occipital lobe and a mild left neglect on target cancellation or line bisection. The lesions involved the temporoparietal region (Patient 1) and the basal ganglia and...

Investigations of dream mentation in brain damaged patients have shed some light on the controversial issue of cerebral lateralization of dreaming. To examine further the relationships between brain function and dreaming, we studied REM sleep dream recall and content in four patients having undergone right functional or anatomical hemispherectomy and eight matched control subjects. Patients wer...

Champions of the right brain as a wheelhouse for cognition in stroke recovery, take heart. Evidence inconsistent with Marcel Kinsbourne’s theory of transcallosal interhemispheric inhibition has long been available. However, some researchers maintain that the main influence of right brain regions in patients with aphasia due to stroke is to further disrupt or reduce the functional activation of ...

background: palliative whole brain radiotherapy (wbrt) has been the standard treatment for brain metastases. ionizing radiation is known to be one of the most potent cataractogenic agents. we aimed to evaluate two different radiotherapy techniques with respect to the doses received by the organs at risk (oar) in patients with brain metastasis who undergone wbrt. materials and methods: ten conse...

Crossing the hands over the midline reduces left tactile extinction to double simultaneous stimulation in right-brain-damaged patients, suggesting that spatial attentional biases toward the ipsilesional (right) side of space contribute to the patients' contralesional (left) deficit. We investigated (1) whether the position of the left hand, and its vision, affected processing speed of tactile s...