Types of Neurological Damage

Question 1

What is neurological damage?

Answer 1

Damage to the CNS and/or PNS

Question 2

What is agnosia?

Answer 2

Inability to interpret sensations and recognize things

Question 3

What is visual agnosia? What are its symptoms? What causes it?

Answer 3

1. People can see but can’t understand what they see
2. Inability to:

• recognise colour of objects
• recognise objects and name them
• recognise familiar places

3. Caused by damage to pathways connects occipital and parietal lobe

Question 4

What is prosopagnosia? What are its symptoms? What causes it?

Answer 4

1. Can see faces but cannot recognise
2. Inability to:

• recognise ppl from their faces
• differentiate faces
• recognise FAMILIAR faces

3. Caused by damage to fusiform face area (FFA)