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VOLUME 1 – CHILDHOOD

The Bandit’s Raid

NT: Sorry for the delay. I’ve had some problems around here in «real life» and all that, and … well, I ended up delaying a little bit…

Ok, I already said I would do this last week so… let’s talk about “Negligence Syndrome” (Or “Hemispatial neglect”, i don’t know). Let’s see… this is a very, very interesting condition that occurs when a person is injured in a certain place in the right hemisphere of the brain (I don’t remember which one…).

The curious thing about this condition is that those who suffer from it are unable to “recognize” (that is, their brain becomes negligent in the task of recognizing) THEIR left side (the left side of their body), and not only that, but they cannot recognize everything that is, spatially, on the left side.

(For the one who does not know. The hemispheres of the brain controlling the body part opposite them. In other words, the right hemisphere controls the left part, and the left hemisphere controls the right part.)

In other words, the brains of people who suffer from “Negligence Syndrome” do not recognize the things that are on the left side, like… if we divide a clock in half, the person suffer from this could only recognize the part where the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, while ignoring the half that contains the numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. This is also not limited to your perception of things, but also to their memories.

People with Negligence Syndrome (lets called it NS) do not remember the things that are on the right side (with them as a reference point).

To give an example… Imagine a square or any famous place you know, ok? Well, if a guy with NS were asked to look at this famous “place” from the front, and say the names of the streets next to it (assuming he know them), he would have no problem saying the names of the streets that are on the right side of the “place”, however, he would be unable to remember the names of the streets that are on the left side… AND IT DOES NOT FINISH THERE. During the experiment they did to prove what I just mentioned, they made people go to the back of the famous place they were observing, and repeat the exercise while looking at the “famous place” from behind … and what happened? Well, the same thing happened… but with the opposite streets.

I mean, people this time were able to say without problems the names of the streets on the right side (which had previously been on the left side when they saw the famous place in front), but were unable to say the names of the streets on the side left (which had previously been on the right side), even though they had just said them.

I mean, this indicates that Negligence Syndrome does not cause people to be unable to recognize the things they “remember / know” that are on the left side itself, but the things that they recognize are found on the left side in real time to be more precise …

Ok, and finally. People who suffer from neglect syndrome are unable to realize this on their own, I mean, even if they become unable to move their right arm, or do not “see” the things that are on the left side, they do not You will notice nothing strange.

During an experiment, they made those who suffer from this syndrome make some drawings (a clock, a flower and a house) and all drew only the right side of each of these things. When they drew the clock, they simply drew a circle with some arrows in which the numbers 1 to 6 were written in order on the right side (there have also been those who have put together the twelve numbers only on the right side), when they drew the flower , they drew a normal flower, but without any details like the petals or the leaves on the left side, and when they drew a house, they drew a half-built house that lacked the left side… of course, it is not as if the people would not have tried to draw the “left side” of those things, however, the few things they draw looked like blind scribbles.

Anyway, we can assume that the neglect syndrome is a condition that “seals” the memories and the ability to recognize the things that are on the left side, and also inhibits the ability to realize this of patients (Actually, Patients suffering from Negligence Syndrome may even stubbornly insist that you are sure that nothing happens to them because of their inability to recognize their inability to “see” the left side).

Complications caused by Negligence Syndrome can be reduced through therapies, however, it is a really long process (those who take the therapies take months to show some remarkable progress).

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