Research Advances
Research advances reported by Dr. Heilman and co-workers demonstrated that:
- A cortico-limbic-reticular network mediates attention.
- In most people, the right hemisphere is dominant for attending to both sides of space (see hemispatial neglect).
- In most people, it was the right hemisphere of the brain that was important for emotional communication (prosody).
- Skilled movement (praxis), such as tool use, is controlled in most people by a left hemisphere modular network where the parietal lobe contains the representations of the spatial trajectories for these skilled movements, and the frontal lobe transforms this into motor codes.
- The right hemisphere's parietal lobe controls the autonomic nervous system.
- First to describe orthostatic tremor.
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