Environmental reduplication associated with right frontal and parietal lobe injury.

AUTOR(ES)

Ruff, R L

RESUMO

Four patients with environmental reduplication, a specific form of spatial disorientation and confabulation are described. The patients maintained that their hospital rooms were located in their homes. Each patients had evidence of right frontal or right parietal injury based upon computed tomography, neurosurgery, and neuropsychological testing. The factors associated with environmental reduplication were: impaired spatial perception and visual memory, inability of the patients to recognise the inconsistency between their believed location and their actual location, confusion soon after admission to hospital, and a strong desire to be at home.

Documentos Relacionados

• Environmental reduplication associated with a right thalamic hemorrhage.
• A sensitive test for tactile extinction: results in patients with parietal and frontal lobe disease.
• Subcortical environmental reduplication: SPECT findings in a patient with a right thalamocapsular haemorrhage.
• Micrographia associated with a parietal lobe lesion in multiple sclerosis.
• Visually induced central pain and arm withdrawal after right parietal lobe infarction.