Abstract
A 61 year-old right-handed artist who had suffered from cerebral infarction 8 months previously showed remarkable improvement of severe left unilateral spatial neglect and crossed aphasia following rehabilition.
At the initial neurologic and neuropsychologic evaluation at our hospital, the patient showed left hemiplegia, aphasia and left unilateral spatial neglect. The patient had tight right-handedness and no familial left-handedness. A training program of crayon drawing was begun because the patient was known to be an artist formerly, After 15 months of training, one of his pictures was accepted for an exhibition. The training program thus proved useful for the patient.
The crossed aphasia showed moderate improvement but trans-word disturbance and agrammatism remaind.
The original region of left unilateral spatial neglect in this case was suspected to be the right, parieto-temporo-occipital area.
