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azncindy619

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J.S. recently had a stroke which damaged the right parietal lobe. You give J.S. a line bisection task in which he must bisect a line into two equal segments. J.S. typically marks lines like this: Based on this performance, you suspect that J.S. may have______________.
 
  a. motor inaccuracies c. post-stroke syndrome
  b. hemispatial neglect d. a slow but normal recovery

Question 2

__________________ is an attention deficit in which the impairment leads the patient to ignore information appearing on the side of space opposite the damaged side of the brain.
 
  a. Visual agnosia c. Hemispatial neglect
   b. Balint's syndrome d. Spatial blindness disorder



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c



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