parietal lobe
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Arterial supply
Pathology
- disease in the dominant parietal lobe
- disorders of language (especially alexia)
- Gerstmann's syndrome
- bimanual astereognosis (tactile agnosia)
- bilateral ideation or ideomotor apraxia
- disease in the non-dominant parietal lobe
- agitation
- inattentiveness
- delusional thinking
- visual hallucinations (rare)
- autonomic hyperactivity (common)
- contralateral deficits may be mild or absent
More general terms
Component of
Components
- angular gyrus
- supramarginal gyrus
- subparietal sulcus
- cingulate sulcus
- marginal sulcus
- postcentral sulcus
- intraparietal sulcus of Turner
- parietal cortex
- posterior paracentral gyrus
References
- ↑ Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998
- ↑ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th ed. Isselbacher et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1994, pg 155
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8) Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2013
Geriatric Review Syllabus, 11th edition (GRS11) Harper GM, Lyons WL, Potter JF (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2022