Brain, Vol. 115, No. 6, 1849-1874, 1992
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IMPAIRMENTS OF MOVEMENT INITIATION AND EXECUTION IN UNILATERAL NEGLECT
DIRECTIONAL HYPOKINESIA AND BRADYKINESIA
Department of psychology, Monash University Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Correspondence to: Jason B. Mattingley, Department of Psychology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.
Patients with unilateral neglect may exhibit slowness in the initiation of contralesionally directed movements in peripersonal space (directional hypokinesia). The present study used a sequential movement task to characterize any such impairment in a group of 24 patients with right hemisphere lesions, 18 of whom had left neglect. A further five patients with left hemisphere lesions, one of whom had right neglect, were also tested. We measured movement initiation and execution times for leftward and rightward movements in either hemispace and across the body midline. Most left neglect patients, particularly those with lesions involving posterior cortex, showed directional hypokinesia. Left neglect patients with anterior and/or subcortical lesions also showed directional bradykinesia, i.e. a slowing in the execution phase of contralesionally directed movements. This impairment occurred regardless of the spatial location of the apparatus and was exacerbated as patients moved closer to their neglected side. The patient with right neglect showed directional hypokinesia but not directional bradykinesia. Right hemisphere and left hemisphere lesion patients without neglect performed in a manner comparable to controls, who did not exhibit directional hypokinesia or directional bradykinesia. These results suggest that directional hypokinesia or directional bradykinesia. These results suggest that directional hypokinesia is associated with both left hemisphere and right hemisphere damage, but only in the context of unilateral neglect. Moreover, the site of hemispheric lesion may determine the temporal characteristics of movement impairments in neglect. Damage to posterior cortex produces deficits in detecting contralesional targets and initiating movements toward them, while damage to anterior or subcortical structures may disrupt the internal representation of an intended trajectory.
Received June 3, 1992. Accepted July 18, 1992.
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