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3568707

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-5-28
pubmed:abstractText
Four patients showing the syndrome of "topographical disorientation" are reported. Patients became unable to find their way, especially in unfamiliar surroundings, following a single lesion in the territory of the right posterior cerebral artery, as evidenced on CT-scan. Associated disturbances included: left hemianopia, mild face recognition problems, and various degree of impairment in face-learning and visual maze-learning tasks. Language, visuo-perceptive and constructional abilities, object and picture recognition were intact. Memory tests only showed a mild, generally non-significant, impairment of visual memory. As inferred from the lesion located in the 4 patients, this syndrome seems to be strongly related to damage to the right parahippocampal gyrus, a structure that thus appears crucial for specifically storing and/or retrieving visual information necessary to achieve orientation in the locomotor environment.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0010-9452
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
73-85
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Pure topographical disorientation: a definition and anatomical basis.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports