Parietal lobe syndrome

Parietal lobe syndrome occurs when the postcentral gyrus is affected , when someesthetic functions are impaired .  Among the most common causes that lead to the development of the syndrome are ischemic vascular events, expansive processes and brain atrophy ( Alzheimer's ).

Symptoms

• Astereognosia – inability to recognize objects by touch.
• Topagnosia – inability to localize sensitive stimuli.
• Autotopagnosia – inability to recognize parts of one's own body.
• Agraphestehsia – inability to identify numbers and letters that are written on the skin by gentle scratching.
• Alexia, agraphia, conduction aphasia in dominant hemisphere lesions.
• Anosognosia, neglect syndrome in a disorder of the non-dominant hemisphere.
  • In addition, it may arise:

• apraxia,
• contralateral disturbance of vibration and position senseation with a relatively small disturbance of pain and heat sensation
• contralateral hemianopsia in a lesion of the deep parts of the white matter of the parietal lobe,
• bilateral negative blink reflex,
• nystagmus in the direction away from the lesion

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