Stroke Symptoms from Territories

Question 1

What symptoms arise from a frontal lobe stroke?

Answer 1

Broca’s aphasia
Personality changes
Weakness/paralysis on opposite side
Urinary incontinence

Question 2

What symptoms arise from a parietal lobe stroke?

Answer 2

Inferior homonymous quadrantopia
Sensory loss on opposite side
Hemineglect
Difficulty with reading, writing and maths

Question 3

What symptoms arise as a result of an occipital lobe stroke?

Answer 3

Homonymous hemianopia- due to presence of primary visual cortex

Question 4

What symptoms arise as a result of a temporal lobe stroke?

Answer 4

Wernicke’s aphasia
Hearing loss
Disturbances in smell and taste
Superior homonymous quadrantopia