Help at last for stroke victims who are left with only half a life

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Doctors discovered an innovative new treatment that could transform the lives of thousands of stroke patients who ‘forget’ their left side.

The condition, known as hemi-spatial neglect, affects a quarter of the 150,000 patients who suffer a stroke in Britain every year.

It can also occur in people with a brain tumour or injury to the right side of their brain — as it is this side that controls the left side of the body.

Though their eyes work normally, tissue damage in the right side of the brain means these patients can’t ‘see’ their left side.

So they behave as if one side of the world does not exist — they eat food only from the right side of their plate, and men shave on just their right side.

Other symptoms include ‘losing’ items that have been put down or failing to notice people on their left.
During a stroke, brain cells are destroyed by bleeding or a blockage in the brain.