Cortical Lesions Flashcards
What are the symptoms of frontal lobe lesions?
Intellectual impairment
Personality change
Urinary incontinence
Monoparesis or hemiparesis
What are the specific symptom of left frontal lobe
Broca’s aphasia/Anterior Aphasia/ Expressive aphasia
What are the symptoms of left temporoparietal lesions
Acalculia Agrahia Alexia Wernicke’s aphasia - receptive/ posterior aphasia Left right distortion Homonymous field defect
Symptoms of temporal right lobe?
Confusional state
Failure to recognize faces
Homonymous field defect
Symptoms of parietal right
Dressing apraxia
Failure to recognize faces
Symptoms of parietal left?
Limb apraxia
Symptoms of parietal either
Contralateral sensory loss or neglect
Agraphaesthesia
Homonymous field defect
Occipital/ occipitoparietal
Visual field defects
Visuospatial defects
Disturbances of visual recognition
Homonymous field defects are seen in
Temoporoparietal left
Temporal right
Parietal either
Left right distortion seen in
Left temporoparietal lesions
Failure to recognize faces seen in?
Temporoparietal right
Agraphaesthesia seen in?
Parietal either
