The pathways of patients with monohemispheric brain lesions

The pathways of patients with monohemispheric brain lesions... 

The cycle time, cycle number and intercepts in patients with monohemispheric brain damage (The Pathways of Patients with Monohemispheric Brain Lesions) are investigated. Patients with a defined (by CT or MRI) monohemispheric brain damage have a known cause. Therefore, they are well suited for testing the measures proposed by this work. 

The critical issue of the evaluation of patients with monohemispheric brain lesions is the definition of the first peak (Fp). Because these subjects did only 50 trials of the tasks xlly, the early trials are rather rare and it is difficult therefore to determine the first peak (the minimal pathways). 

Summing up, the patterns of disturbation of mental pathways in patients with monohemispheric brain lesions can be caused by three possible reasons ... 

This is the theme of the subsequent chapter where the deviations from the normal pathways of healthy subjects are presented many patients show asymmetrically increased elementary times at the side of the brain lesion. Altogether there exist the following patterns of disturbation of mental pathways in patients with monohemispheric brain lesions. 

Table 32. Comparison between the mean length of the linear pathway in 20 patients with monohemispheric brain lesions and 30 healthy subjects. The values of the patients are without considering the side of the lesion...

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