If you’ve ever seen someone who only shaved one side of their face or wore only one shoe and thought they were “marginal,” that person is actually: May have neglect syndrome.

How this interesting syndrome arises What symptoms you have and let’s see if there is a cure.

First of all: how does this ‘neglect syndrome’ arise?

People with neglect syndrome usually parietal lobe They have suffered damage or a blow to the lateral lobe of the brain (the part through which we can perceive and pay attention to the environment).

And also tumor or stroke It can also occur in such situations. While the right side of our brain controls the left side of the body, the left side of our brain controls the right side of our body, so the area where the damage is sustained is important.

For example, a person with damage to the left side of the brain may experience pain coming from the right side. indifferent and unresponsive to any stimulus can stay. For example, he may eat only the left side of the food on his plate and leave the right side aside.

People who suffer from the syndrome do not have any vision problems.

Patients who have nothing to do with an eye condition actually only have reduced visual attention. So the person can draw attention to the neglected party can also see stimuli on that side.

People with the syndrome face very interesting and difficult situations.

In fact, this syndrome is broadly defined as: “personal negligence” and ‘external world-based neglect’. A person suffering from personal neglect syndrome experiences a disconnect with a part of his or her own body.

For example, plain to the side that is not neglected She may wear makeup or shave one side of her face. to the neglected side You may not feel it when you touch it.

People with external world neglect find it difficult to adapt to the outside world. ‘Draw a clock for me.’ As long as you say so Can draw the numbers 12 to 6 and can even set the whole number 12 at half the hour. Eating only one side of the food on the plate is also caused by negligence towards the outside world.

Other interesting symptoms are as follows:

• Hitting objects on the neglected side
• Not feeling sensations such as touch, heat or cold on the neglected side
• Failure to use the limbs on the neglected side, even if there is no paralysis
• Draw half the pictures
• Inability to hear from the neglected party

So is there a cure for this?

Yes, according to stage and size neglect syndrome can be intervened. For this purpose, people from many different professional groups can be consulted, such as neuropsychologists, therapists, speech therapists, neurological music therapists, linguists specialized in language and speech disorders and physiotherapists.

In the treatment of the syndrome, which usually occurs on the left side, visual scanning training, closing the eye on the healthy side, training to increase attention span, neck muscle vibration therapy, mental imagery training, virtual reality training Many methods can be used, such as:

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