Question

Joey is participating in a neuropsychological evaluation. During the evaluation, he is asked to draw a clock. Joey successfully draws the clock but incorrectly places all the numbers on the right side of the clock, leaving the left side empty. What area of the brain is likely damaged

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is - damage to the lesion of the right hemisphere.

Explanation:

Damage to the one hemisphere of the brain causes a deficit or inability in awareness or alertness of one side of the field of sight. It results in the inability of the particular person to aware or process the one side of the body of an individual's body or environment.

This condition is called as hemispatial neglect, that cause by strokes or injury to the particular hemisphere. The one common example is if someone is incorrectly places numbers or place all the numbers of the clock in right side of the clock.

Thus, the correct answer is : damage to the lesion of right hemisphere.