Chapters 13 and 14: Symptoms of parietal and occipital damage

Question 1

What is visual agnosia?

Answer 1

Inability to recognize objects by sight or the inability to draw or copy them.

Question 2

Visual Agnosia includes…

Answer 2

Object agnosia
Prosopagnosia

Question 3

What is object agnosia?

Answer 3

The failure to recognize objects.

Question 4

What is prosopagnosia?

Answer 4

the inability to recognize faces

Question 5

There are two streams of analysis that start in the striate cortex. What are they?

Answer 5

1. Dorsal Stream
2. Ventral Stream

Question 6

What does the dorsal stream help with?

Answer 6

It helps with recognizing where an object is located.

Question 7

What is the ventral stream help with?

Answer 7

It helps with it recognizing what an object is.

Question 8

Balint’s syndrome

Answer 8

Includes disorders related to spatial perception

Question 9

Balint’s syndrome includes three different disorders which are `

Answer 9

1. Optic ataxia
2. Ocular apraxia
3. Simultanagnosia

Question 10

Optic ataxia

Answer 10

A deficit in reaching for objects under visual guidance. The object is recognized but the movement to reach out is misdirected.

Question 11

Ocular apraxia

Answer 11

Impaired visual scanning/impaired voluntary eye movement.

Question 12

Parietal lobe lesions on the left hemisphere can lead to…

Answer 12

Gerstmann Syndrome

Question 13

Gerstmann syndrome

Answer 13

Includes disorders such as…-

Finger agnosia
-Agraphia
-Acalculia
-Right-left confusion

Question 14

Finger agnosia

Answer 14

Inability to name or recognize fingers

Question 15

Agraphia

Answer 15

Inability to write

Question 16

Acalculia

Answer 16

Inability to do math operations

Question 17

Where does the dorsal stream start and finish?

Answer 17

It begins in the striate cortex and ends in the posterior cortex of the parietal lobe.

Question 18

Where does the ventral stream start and finish?

Answer 18

It begins in the striate cortex and ends in the cortex interior of the temporal lobe.

Question 19

What is simultagnosia?

Answer 19

Inability to perceive the visual field as a whole. People have difficulty perceiving more than one object at a time.

Question 20

Left parietal symptoms include disorders of language. True or False?

Answer 20

TRUE!!

Question 21

DIsorders of language include..

Answer 21

Dyslexia
Dysphasia
Agraphia

Question 22

What is apraxia?

Answer 22

Inability to carry out purposeful movements in the absence of paralysis or paresis.

Question 23

What is dysphasia?

Answer 23

Speaking slowly and deliberately, making many grammatical errors.

Question 24

What is dyslexia

Answer 24

Problems reading

Question 25

Right parietal lobe lesions include…

Answer 25

1. Contralateral neglect
2. Constructional apraxia
3. Topographical deficits
4. Difficulty in identifying objects in unfamiliar views

Question 26

Constructional apraxia

Answer 26

Impairments in combining blocks to form designs

Question 27

Topographical defecit

Answer 27

When someone is unable to draw maps of well known regions

Question 28

What does attention mean?

Answer 28

The ability to consciously select/focus on information and ignore irrelevant information for a period of time.

Question 29

What are the attention brain areas?

Answer 29

Parietal and frontal lobe. MAINLY the parietal lobe.

Question 30

What assessments are used to assess attention in patients?

Answer 30

Stroop Word Trial
WAIS- Digit Span
Trails A