Parietal Lobes: Occipital Lobes, Body Image, Visual-Space, Pain, Neglect, Denial, Apraxia, Math, Language

Parietal Lobes: Occipital Lobes, Body Image, Visual-Space, Pain, Neglect, Denial, Apraxia, Math, Language

Table of Contents<br /><br />Part 1. Parietal Lobes:<br />Body Image, Visual Space, Neglect, Denial, the "Lobe of the Hand" Apraxia, Math, Language 4<br />Skin Receptors & Sensory Processing - 8<br />Parietal Topography & Functional Localization - 11<br />Primary Somesthetic Receiving Areas - 12<br />Body Image Representation - 16<br />Primary, Secondary andAssociation Sensory-Motor Areas - 17<br />Body Consciousness: Denial of the Body, and Phantom Limbs - 21<br />Functional Laterality - 24<br />Somesthetic Agnosias: Loss of Sensation - 26<br />Somesthetic Association Area - 28<br />Hand Manipulation Cells - 29<br />Body in Space - 31<br />Tactile Discrimination Deficits & Stereognosis - 32<br />Pain: Areas 5, 7, & the Supramarginal Gyrus - 34<br />Pain and Hysteria - 37<br />Area 7 & the Superior-Posterior Parietal Lobule - 38<br />Polymodal Information Processing - 38<br />Three-Dimensional Analysis of Body-Spatial Interaction - 38<br />Visual-Spatial Properties - 39<br />Visual Attention - 43<br />Motivational & Grasping Functions - 44<br />Fight & Left Parietal Lobe: Lesions & Laterality - 44<br />Neglect & Visual Space - 44<br />Localization of Objects in Space - 47<br />Apraxia - 47<br />Emotion - 48<br />Inferior Parietal Lobule & Language - 48<br />Multi-Modal Assimilation Area - 50<br />Language: IPL Interactions With Broca’s & Wernicke’s Areas - 51<br />Language & Anomia - 53<br />Word Finding: Knowing Yet Not Knowing: Disconnected Consciousness - 53<br />Agraphia - 56<br />Lateralized Temporal-Sequential functions - 56<br />Apraxiav57<br />Sensory Guidance of Movement - 57<br />Apraxia - 58<br />Ideomotor Apraxia - 60<br />Ideational Apraxia - 60<br />Left Sided or Unilateral Apraxia - 61<br />Dressing Apraxia - 61<br />Aphasia & Apraxia - 62<br />Pantomime Recognition - 62<br />Constructional Apraxia - 63<br />Gerstmann'sSyndrome - 66<br />Finger Agnosia, Acalculi, Agraphia, Left-Right Confusion: the Knowing Hand - 6<br />Finger Agnosia - 68<br />Evolution of Geometry & Math - 69<br />Acalculia - 75<br />Pure Acalculia/Anarithmetria - 76<br />Alexia/agnosia for Numbers - 76<br />Alexia/Agraphia for Numbers - 76<br />Spatial Acalculia - 77<br />Right-Left Disorientation - 77<br />Attention & Neglect - 78<br />Left Hemisphere Neglect - 82<br />Delusional Denial - 83<br />Disconnection, ConfaBulation & Gap Filling - 83<br />Delusional Playmates & Egocentric Speech - 85<br />Summary & Overview - 86<br /><br /><br />Part II: Occipital Lobes Vision, Blind Sight, Hallucinations, Visual Agnosias - 88<br />Primary & Association Visual Cortex - 92<br />Pre-Cortical Visual Analysis - 96<br />Neocortical Columnar Organization - 102<br />Simple, Complex, Lower & Higher Order Hypercomplex Feature Detectors - 103<br />Striate Cortex: Area 17 - 105<br />Hallucinations - 107<br />Visual Association Areas 18 & 19 - 107<br />Temporal Parietal Visual Areas - 108<br />Multiple Visual Realities - 110<br />Homonymous Hemianopsia & Quadrantanopsia - 111<br />Hallucinations - 112<br />Cortical Blindness - 113<br />"Blind Sight" - 114<br />Denial of Blindness - 118<br />Visual Agnosia & Alexia - 118<br />Prosopagnosia - 121<br />Simultanagnosia - 122<br />Impaired Color Recognition- 123<br />Overview - 123<br />