Localising brain lesions

Question 1

Parietal lobe

Answer 1

Sensory inattention
Apraxia
Tactile agnosia - asterognosis
Inferior homonymous quandrantopia
Gerstmann’s syndrome - alexia, acalculia,, finger agnosia, right left disorientation

Question 2

Occipital lobe

Answer 2

Homonymous hemianopia
Cortical blindness
Visual agnosia

Question 3

Temporal lobe

Answer 3

Wenicke’s aphasia
Superior homonymous quandrantopia
Auditory agnosia
Prosopagnosia - difficulty recognising faces

Question 4

Frontal lobe

Answer 4

Expressive aphasia
Disinhibition
Preserveration
Anosmia
Inability to generate list

Question 5

Cerebellum - midline

Answer 5

Gait and truncal ataxia

Question 6

Cerebellar - hemispheric

Answer 6

Intention tremor
Past pointing
Dysdiakinesis
Nystagmus

Question 7

Medial thalamus and maxillary bodies of hypothalamus

Answer 7

Wernicke and Korsakoff syndrome

Question 8

Subthalamic nucleus of basal ganglia

Answer 8

Hemiballism - large jerking movements of one side of body

Question 9

Caudate nucleus of basal ganglia

Answer 9

Huntington chorea

Question 10

Substantia nigra of basal ganglia

Answer 10

Parkinson’s

Question 11

Amygdala

Answer 11

Kluver-Bucy syndrome - hyper sexuality, hyperorality, hyperphagia (hunger), visual agnosia