Understand The Impact Of Neurlogical Damage On Cognitions And Behaviour

Question 1

Visual agnosia

Answer 1

-Inability to recognise a visual stimulus despite being able to see and describe it
- patients suffering cannot recognise what they see and this is usually caused by the occipital lobe or rearmost part of the parietal lobe
- A patient with visual agnosia can usually describe an object in terms of shape, colour, and texture but cannot recognise an object

Question 2

Prosopangosia

Answer 2

• Special type of agnosia
• inability to recognise faces or familiar people
• patient can read and regognise peoples voices but their problem relates specifically to faces

( D.P. Who was described as ‘The man who mistook his wife for a hat’

Question 3

Impact of damage to pre - frontal cortex

Answer 3

• Emotional blunting, impulsive behaviours ( outbursts of anger )
• impaired desigion-making

Question 4

Kanal has visual agnosia. How might the condition affect kunal?

Answer 4

• Struggle to recognise and name a object shown to him
• he would he able to describe it though