If your left arm was working before your stroke, the little voice that ought to tell you it might be time to reject the “left arm works fine” theory goes silent. The only one left is the poor apologist, who must tirelessly invent stranger and stranger excuses for why all the facts really fit the “left arm works fine” theory perfectly well.
How interesting… I wonder how much of this is the reason why some people with dementia confabulate so convincingly, and this is impenetrable to them; perhaps the region of the brain responsible for this paradigm shifting is no longer working, just as in the stroke patients who do not recognise their own arm.
How interesting… I wonder how much of this is the reason why some people with dementia confabulate so convincingly, and this is impenetrable to them; perhaps the region of the brain responsible for this paradigm shifting is no longer working, just as in the stroke patients who do not recognise their own arm.