What Is Left Neglect

Left neglect is a term describing a deficit in awareness that occurs following an injury to the right side of the brain. Due to the injury, the brain has difficulty paying attention to items falling into the left hemisphere of an individual’s awareness.

What causes left neglect?

Why Left Neglect is More Common In other words, because the right hemisphere processes both sides of the body, it can compensate for damage to the left hemisphere. But if the right hemisphere is damaged, the left side cannot fill in the gaps.

Does left neglect go away?

Is left neglect treatable? Left neglect is treatable however, there are many different ways one can go about treating it. The most common way to treat left neglect is forcing the stroke survivor to pay attention to their left side and to utilize their left sided extremities on a daily basis.