Wednesday, August 03, 2005

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