Right Hemisphere Brain Damage Flashcards
Right Hemisphere Brain Damage
Right hemisphere damage is caused by the same events that cause left hemisphere damage.
About half of R-Hemisphere strokes result in communication deficits
Compared to the L-Hemisphere, R-Hemisphere functions seem to be arranged more diffusely, not as well localized.
-It’s harder to say what will occur with Right hemisphere damage in comparison to when there is damage to the left-hemisphere.
R-Parietal Lobe Damage
-Problems comprehending complex visuospatial information
Impaired ability to recognize ordinary objects in unique views (pg. 404)
- This includes recognizing ordinary objects from a different views. Looking at them with any type of a tilt.
- Deficits of spatial orientation, such as problems judging distance and remembering spatial locations
- Impaired sustained attention- attention maintained over a long period of time.
- An example would be showing them a deck of cards and every time they see a black one they need to raise their hand. This is an activity to help measure sustained attention to one task.
R-Parietal Lobe Damage -Associated with hemispatial neglect
problem with spatial exploration and selective attention. Failure to respond to stimuli on the side of the body opposite of the brain injury. Pg. 399
Doesn’t deal with visual acuity, not how well you see but failure to respond to stimuli on one side of the body. In most cases this is on the right side of the body.
R-Parietal Lobe Damage –Associated with anosognosia
a lack of awareness of deficits, denial of illness.
-Difficult to treat because the pt isn’t aware of the problem.
R-Parietal Lobe Damage -Associated with topographical disability
Confusion about location, even in familiar places. Trouble following familiar routes, reading maps, or giving directions.
R-parietal lobe damage—
Associated with geographical disorientation
confusion about location in the world, may understand general surroundings.
R-parietal lobe damage—Associated with constructional impairments
problems organizing complex actions in space (drawing or building).
R-temporal lobe damage—
Associated with deficits in music processing
(pitch, loudness, timing)
R-temporal lobe damage—Associated with nonverbal memory problems
such as recognition and recall of complex visual pictures, faces, simple musical tunes.
R-temporal lobe damage—Associated with poor recognition of facial expression, vocal irony & emotion.
(Hard time with these)
Frontal lobe damage—
- Associated with reduced initiation
- Associated with problems using cues to adjust performance
- Associated with impaired temporal memory—what came first or second. The timeline is somehow out of order.
