Here we present neurological evidence for the former view from studies of a brain-injured patient with visual neglect.
The father, a psychologist who treats brain-injured patients, insisted on helmets.
The context for this view is similar to how physical therapy works to help brain-injured patients recover lost functions.
A brain-injured patient taken to an emergency room will usually have a breathing tube inserted in his throat and then undergo a CT scan to locate the injury.
The most profound finding in Feinberg et al.'s paper is that performance tests on the retrieval process of memory was significantly damaged in brain-injured patients.
Overall, brain-injured patients were severely impaired in many executive functions such as self-monitoring, mental flexibility, and social reasoning.
His attitude toward Vattas had hardened from suspicion to outright paranoia, but his doctors said many brain-injured patients became suspicious and somewhat irrational until they recovered.
Some of the first clues to the possible causes of the Capgras delusion were suggested by the study of brain-injured patients who had developed prosopagnosia.
He added that the referral coordinator, whose salary was financed by New Medico, supplied information to families of brain-injured patients on whatever facilities might best help them.
Still, Gardner points out, brain-injured patients can lose the ability to conjure up an image and manipulate it in the mind.