University:
The University of British Columbia
Course:
MEDD 448 | Transition into Postgraduate Education and Practice
Academic year:

2024
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68

Pages:

2
Author:

O. Touhami

Visuospatial Hemineglect, Anton-Babinski Syndrome, and Apraxia: Impacts on Perception and Awareness Partner o Visuospatial hemineglect. Anton o Babinski syndrome. Constructive o and dressing apraxia. Right hemisphere in the right-handed person. -Serious functional prognosis. -Rehabilitation in certain cases. Visuo-spatial hemineglect -Positive diagnosis: meals, toilet, reading and tests. o Deviation of the head and both ipsilateral to the lesion. o Lack of awareness of information in the hemispace contralateral to the lesion (left space). o Example: can't find the fork that is to the left of the plate. o Testing: vuilleumier lines blocking test: do not block the lines which are to the right. The patient neglects the information to his left. o Draw the daisy: only draw the petals on the right side. o Writing: large margin on the left, deviates to the right. o Clock face: numbers all on the right side. -Differential diagnosis : o Homonymous lateral hemianopia: amputation of the visual field - compensates by directing the gaze. -Etiological diagnosis: o Right temporoparietal lesions. o Acute lesions of multiple etiologies: vascular +++, infectious, traumatic. Anton-Babinski syndrome -Combines anosognosia and hemi-asomatognosia. -Positive diagnosis: o Anosognosia: o Does not mention frank deficit spontaneously or on incitement. ± o denied or even associated) a motor confabulation. o Hemiasomatognosia: o Do not point to different parts of the paralyzed half body (“show me your left arm with your right index finger”, etc.). o ± Attributes the paralyzed hemibody to a third party1 -Differential diagnosis : o Language disorders. o Confusion. o Prior psychiatric pathology. -Etiological diagnosis: common to visuospatial hemineglect. Amnesia -We distinguish memory: o Episodes, events (facts specific to a given time and place). Knowledge: o called semantic memory