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lesions of the dominant temporal lobe may cause what? three things
• paroxysmal attacks of unresponsiveness (absences), purposeless behaviour (automatism), olfactory, visual and/or auditory hallucinations, and disturbances of mood
and memory (déjà vu)(complex partial seizures)
• contralateral superior visual field loss
• rapid, fluent speech rendered incomprehensible by word errors (paraphasia). Profound word finding difficulty, impaired repetition of words and profound loss of comprehension (Wernicke’s aphasia)
and memory (déjà vu)(complex partial seizures)
• contralateral superior visual field loss
• rapid, fluent speech rendered incomprehensible by word errors (paraphasia). Profound word finding difficulty, impaired repetition of words and profound loss of comprehension (Wernicke’s aphasia)
