Clinical features of focal cortical brain lesions in a right-handed individual
Frontal, either:
Intellectual impairment,
Personality change,
Urinary incontinence,
Monoparesis or hemiparesis,
Frontal, left:
Broca's aphasia
Temporoparietal, left:
Acalculia,
Alexia,
Agraphia,
Werneke's aphasia,
Right-left disorientation,
Homonymous field defect
Temporal, right:
Confusional states,
Failure to recognize faces,
Homonymous field defect,
Parietal, either:
Contralateral sensory loss or neglect,
Agraphaesthesia,
Homonymous field defect
Parietal, right:
Dressing apraxia,
Failure to recognize faces
Parietal, left:
Limb apraxia
Occipital / occipitoparietal:
Visual field defects,
Visuospatial defects,
Disturbances of visual recognition
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