PSYCH 2NF3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Parietal Lobe, Spina Bifida, Gabi Balint
5 Feb 2019
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Asomatognosia: loss of knowledge about one"s own body. Anosognosia: unawareness or denial of illness, difficult time having a sense of how your body is behaving. Anosodiaphoria: recognizing there is a problem but not doing anything about it, indifference to illness. Finger agnosia: unable to point to the fingers or show them to the examiner. Some evidence: children with congenital spina bifida (incomplete formation of the spine that happens at birth) have finger agnosia and difficulty with math. Syndrome = cluster of symptoms that occur together. Balint described a patient whose bilateral parietal lesion was associated with rare symptoms. Could move eyes but was not able to fixate on a specific object. Simultagnosia: identification of one object only when two or multiple are shown. Optic ataxia: difficulty with reaching under visual guidance. Neglect: in relation to attention* for visual, auditory, and somesthetic stimulation on one side of the body or space.
