How do patients typically respond to a stroke that causes left hemiparesis, hemianopsia, and hemisensory loss?
- They grin and bear these deficits.
- They employ defense mechanisms.
- They look toward the side of their deficits.
- Because they have aphasia, they do not discuss their response.
After sustaining a nondominant hemisphere stroke or other acute structural lesion, patients typically employ denial, projection, humor, or other defense mechanisms. With cerebral lesions, patients’ eyes deviate away from the side of their deficits. In this case, with left hemiparesis, patients look to their right side. With right-sided cerebral lesions, aphasia does not accompany the left-sided hemiparesis and other deficits.
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