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© 2021 Elsevier LtdEyelid closing or opening disorders have been only sporadically described in patients with focal brain lesions over the last decades. Furthermore, the restricted number of reports and the lack of uniform clinical assessment of affected individuals did not allow to define more in depth the clinical features and the underlying neural correlates of these uncommon clinical disorders. Here we report an 89-years old woman with a right hemispheric lesion who showed a contralesional defect of eyelid closure. We also include a video neuroimage of this case and a review of eyelid closing and opening disorders in patients with focal unilateral lesions. In this review we found a correlation between right hemisphere and eyelid motor control, particularly for apraxia of eyelid closure affecting only the contralesional eye. The right parietal lobe was most frequently affected in this unilateral form of eyelid closing disorders, whereas putamen and other subcortical structures were more involved in eyelid opening than in eyelid closing disorders. The relations between unilateral eyelid closing disorders and other forms of motor-intentional defects are shortly discussed.
Author(s): Nicoletti T, Quaranta D, Della Marca G, Tasca G, Gainotti G
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
Year: 2021
Volume: 87
Pages: 69-73
Online publication date: 12/03/2021
Acceptance date: 15/02/2021
ISSN (print): 0967-5868
ISSN (electronic): 1532-2653
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2021.02.020
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2021.02.020
PubMed id: 33863537
