Cortical Lesion
Cortical lesion manifestation understanding.
It affecting few components
1) Dominant Hemisphere
2) Non-dominant Hemisphere
3) Motor
4) Sensory
5) Visual Function
Dominant Hemishere
- Aphasia --> dificulty in language function, speech, writing
Non-dominant Hemisphere
- Visual Spatial Problem --> geographical Aphasia
- Dressing Apraxia
- Constructional Apraxia
Motor
i)Cortical
- incomplete hemiparesis - arm & face
ii)Sub-cortical
- complete hemiparesis - arm, face & legs
Sensory
i)Cortical
- preception rivarly
- graphestasia
- sterioegnosis
- 2 point descrimination
ii)Sub-cortical
- loss of all primary modalities
Visual
i)cortical dysfunction
- no visual field defect
ii)subcortical
- homonymos hemianopia
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