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What are the symptoms of occipital lobe damage?
OCCIPITAL LOBES: most posterior, at the back of the head
- Defects in vision (Visual Field Cuts).
- Difficulty with locating objects in environment.
- Difficulty with identifying colors (Color Agnosia).
- Production of hallucinations.
- Visual illusions – inaccurately seeing objects.
- Word blindness – inability to recognize words.
What are the symptoms of temporal lobe damage?
Damage to the temporal lobes can result in:
- Difficulty in understanding spoken words (Receptive Aphasia)
- Disturbance with selective attention to what we see and hear.
- Difficulty with identification and categorisation of objects.
- Difficulty learning and retaining new information.
- Impaired factual and long-term memory.
What can damage the occipital lobe?
As is the case with other traumatic brain injuries, damage to the occipital lobe most often occurs as a result of vehicle crashes, falls, and firearms. Taking steps to prevent these injuries could save you or a loved one a lifetime of the added stress and depression that accompanies traumatic brain injuries.
What would happen if the temporal lobe is damaged?
Right temporal damage can cause a loss of inhibition of talking. The temporal lobes are highly associated with memory skills. Left temporal lesions result in impaired memory for verbal material. Right side lesions result in recall of non-verbal material, such as music and drawings.
What happens if the entire right occipital lobe is removed?
Essentially, the occipital lobe loses bloodflow due to an arterial blockage. When this happens, the lobe no longer has access to oxygen, leading to cell death and damage in that area.
What will happen to a patient when occipital area of the brain is damaged?
An injury to the occipital lobes can lead to visual field cuts, difficulty seeing objects or colors, hallucinations, blindness, inability to recognize written words, reading or writing, inability to see objects moving, and poor processing of visual information.
What happens when the right temporal lobe is removed?
A temporal lobectomy leads to a significant reduction or complete seizure control about 70% to 80% of the time [4, 5]. However, memory and language can be affected if this procedure is performed on the dominant hemisphere.
What is a temporal stroke?
Temporal lobe strokes are caused when a blood vessel in the temporal lobe becomes clogged (ischemic stroke), or bursts in this area (hemorrhagic stroke). Blood is rich in oxygen, which fuels cellular activity. When the brain doesn’t receive a sufficient supply of blood, those brain cells start to die.
What happens if you damage the right side of your brain?
With right hemisphere brain damage (known as RHBD or RHD), a person may have trouble with things like attention, perception, and memory, as well as loss of mobility and control on the left side of the body, since each hemisphere controls functions on the opposite side of the body.
Can you live without an occipital lobe?
The occipital lobe is one of the less-known brain structures that all humans carry about within their crania. Survival after severe damage to the occipital lobe is possible because it is involved in but one process, a very important one: vision. The occipital lobe houses the primary visual cortex of the brain.
How serious is occipital stroke?
The occipital lobe spans across both hemispheres of the brain. When stroke affects the occipital lobe on one side, it can cause blindness on the opposite side of the visual field. For example, a stroke in the right occipital lobe can result in blindness on the left side of the visual field.
What part of your brain is behind your right eye?
Occipital lobe. The occipital lobe is the back part of the brain that is involved with vision.