BUS 17 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Postcentral Gyrus, Agnosia, Keno
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Optical agnosia (sign of impairment in the occipital area) Apraxia (basis for the diagnosis of impairment in the parietal area) After kleist, local significance was attributed even to such general changes as the disturbance of mental activity, or character changes. The entire interpretation of symptoms, evoked by local brain damage, must be regarded from this much more integrative and dynamic position. That is why the disturbance of higher mental functions was viewed most often by these authors as a. Higher mental functions are always represent complex functional systems based on jointly working zones of the brain cortex. But a close analysis may show that the loss of different links or factors leads to completely different types of disturbance of these functions) In order to provide a correct evaluation of a symptom and its local significance it is only necessary to carry out a qualitative analysis of the structure of the symptom.
