<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> (edit on Wikidata) </Td> </Tr> <P> Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) is the result of injury to the right brain hemisphere . The right hemisphere of the brain coordinates tasks for functional communication, which include problem solving, memory, and reasoning . Deficits caused by right hemisphere brain damage vary depending on the location of the damage . </P> <P> Patients with right hemisphere brain damage most commonly have difficulties with attention, perception, learning, memory, recognition and expression of emotion, and neglect . Other frequently occurring, though slightly less common, deficits include reasoning and problem solving, awareness, and orientation . It is also common for patients with right hemisphere damage to have a flat affect, lack of emotional expression, while speaking . Additionally, these patients commonly have difficulty recognizing other people's emotions when expressed through facial expressions and tone of voice . Although these deficits alone may complicate therapy, the patient may also exhibit anosognosia, or ignorance of his or her impairments . Due to possible anosognosia, it is common for patients to not become frustrated or upset when they are unable to complete tasks they were previously able to complete . </P> <P> Difficulties with communication are likely to be linked to a patient's cognitive deficits . For example, communication breakdown may result because a patient with right hemisphere brain damage fails to observe appropriate social conventions or because the patient may ramble and fail to recognize appropriate times to take conversational turns . The patient may also have difficulty comprehending sarcasm, irony, and other paralinguistic aspects of communication . Additionally, individuals with right hemisphere brain damage may have impaired advanced language abilities such as narrative skills . Patients may find it difficult to extract the theme of a story, or arrange sentences based on the theme of a story . </P>

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