Symptoms of damage to various parts of the brain. Signs of damage to the temporal lobe Damage to the second temporal gyrus leads to

In addition to the syndromes described in Chap. 23, there are other disorders caused by damage to certain areas of the brain. Their discovery indicates that all parts of the brain are functionally different from each other. Some of these objective and subjective symptoms are of great diagnostic value, and if they are identified, a detailed clinical analysis is required to establish the cause and pathophysiological mechanisms.

The emergence and development of these focal syndromes are caused by damage to certain areas of the brain, but it is obvious that in many diseases they can overlap one another and create many combinations.

frontal lobes

The frontal lobes are located anterior to the central (Roland) sulcus and upward from the Sylvian fissure (Fig. 24.1). They consist of several functionally independent departments, which in the neurological literature are designated by numbers (in accordance with Brodmann's architectonic map) or letters (in accordance with the scheme of Economo and Koskinas).

Fig.24.1. Image of cortical fields according to Brodman.

The speech zones are colored black, the main of which are fields 39, 41 and 45. The area shaded with vertical stripes in the superior frontal gyrus refers to the secondary motor zone, which, like Broca's field 45, causes loss of speech when irritated (from Handbuch der inneren Medizin.-Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1939).

The posterior sections, fields 4 and 6 according to Brodmann, are responsible for motor functions. The secondary motor zone is also located in the posterior sections of the superior frontal gyrus. Arbitrary movements depend on the integrity of these zones in humans. When they are damaged, spastic paralysis of half of the face, upper and lower extremities occurs on the side opposite to the pathological focus. These phenomena are discussed in Chap. 15. Limited lesions of the premotor zone (field 6) lead to the appearance of a grasping reflex on the opposite side, with bilateral lesions, a sucking reflex develops. The defeat of field 8 according to Brodman disrupts the mechanisms that turn the head and eyes in the opposite direction. The defeat of the left additional motor area can first lead to mutism, and over time this condition is replaced by transcortical motor aphasia with reduced speech production while maintaining the ability to repeat words and name objects. There may be restrictions on the mobility of the hands, especially the right. Damage to the left premotor zone often causes phonetic-articulatory disorders (cortical dysarthria) and perseveration of words. Agrammatism is characteristic with the preservation of words that carry the main content, and the incorrect use of service words (see Ch. 22). The defeat of field 44 (Broca's area) of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, leads to at least a temporary loss of expressive speech, and the anterior cingulate gyrus in the acute stage - to loss of speech, aphonia. According to Brown, during speech recovery, the stages of whispered speech and hoarseness are more often observed than dysarthria and aphasia. With damage to the medial parts of the limbic system and the cortex of the piriform gyrus (fields 23 and 24), in which the mechanisms of regulation of respiration, blood circulation and urination are located, the symptoms are not very clear.

Other parts of the frontal lobes (Brodmann fields 9 to 12), sometimes called the prefrontal areas, have less specific and well-defined functions. Unlike the motor areas of the frontal lobes and other parts of the brain, irritation of the prefrontal areas leads to minor symptoms. Many patients with gunshot wounds that damage these areas, noted only moderate and unstable changes in behavior. In patients with extensive lesions of one or both frontal lobes and adjacent white matter, as well as the anterior corpus callosum, through which the hemispheres are connected, the following symptoms were noted:

1. Violation of initiative and independence in actions, inhibition of speech and motor activity (apathetic-akinetic-abulic state), decrease in daily activity, slowing down of interpersonal social reactions.

2. Personality changes, usually expressed in the appearance of carelessness. Sometimes this takes the form of childishness, inappropriate jokes and puns, mindless cravings, lability and the surface of emotions or irritability. The ability to worry, worry and be sad is reduced.

3. Some decrease in intelligence, usually characterized by a loss of composure, instability of attention, inability to perform planned actions. Difficulties arise in the transition from one type of activity to another, perseveration. Goldstein downplays the difficulties caused by the loss of the ability to think abstractly, but the authors of this chapter believe that the tendency to think concretely is a manifestation of abulia and perseverations. According to Luria, who considered the frontal lobe as the regulating mechanism of the body's activity, planned activity is not enough to exercise control and orientation to the task. The left frontal lobe suffers more intellect (10 on the IQ scale) than the right lobe, probably due to decreased verbal skills. In addition, memory deteriorates somewhat, possibly due to a violation of the mental ability necessary for memorization and reproduction.

4. Movement disorders such as gait alteration and difficulty standing upright, wide-legged gait, hunched posture, and short mincing gait, culminating in an inability to stand (Bruns' frontal ataxia or gait apraxia) in association with abnormal postures , grasping and sucking reflexes, disorders of the functions of the pelvic organs.

There are some differences between the dominant (left) and right frontal lobes. When conducting psychological studies, it was noted that in the case of damage to the left frontal lobe, fluency of speech is disturbed and perseverations occur, damage to the right frontal lobe reduces the ability to memorize visuospatial images and causes instability (see Nesane and Albert and Luria). From these observations, it becomes clear that the frontal lobes do not perform a single function, but participate in a variety of interacting functional mechanisms, each of which provides separate elements of behavior.

temporal lobes

The boundaries of the temporal lobes are indicated in Fig. 24.1. The Sylvian sulcus separates the upper surface of each temporal lobe from the frontal and anterior parietal lobe. There is no clear anatomical boundary between the temporal and occipital lobes or the posterior temporal and parietal lobes. The temporal lobe includes the superior, middle, and inferior temporal, as well as the fusiform and hippocampal gyrus, and, in addition, the transverse Heschl gyrus, which are auditory receptive fields that are located on the upper inner surface of the Sylvian sulcus. It was previously believed that the hippocampal gyrus is associated with the sense of smell, but it is now known that damage to this area does not lead to the development of anosmia. Only the medial and anterior parts of the temporal lobes (hook area) are associated with the sense of smell. The descending fibers of the geniculate occipital tract (from the lower retina) unfold in a wide arc above the lateral horn of the ventricle in the white matter of the temporal lobe towards the occipital lobes, and if they are damaged, a characteristic upper square homonymous hemianopsia occurs on the opposite side. The auditory centers located in the upper parts of the temporal lobes (Geshl's gyrus) are presented on both sides, this explains the fact that lesions of both temporal lobes lead to the appearance of deafness. Balance disturbances in lesions of the temporal lobes are not observed. Damage to the superior gyrus of the left temporal lobe and the adjacent inferior parietal lobule in right-handers results in Wernicke's aphasia. This syndrome, described in Chap. 22 is characterized by paraphasia, jargonathasia, and an inability to read, write, repeat, or understand spoken language.

Between the auditory and olfactory projection zones is a large space of the temporal lobe, which provides three specific functional systems. In the lower outer sections (fields 20, 21 and 37) there are some visual associative projections. In the upper outer sections (fields 22, 41 and 42) there are primary and secondary auditory zones, and in the mediobasal - formations of the limbic system (almond-shaped nucleus and hippocampus), where the centers of emotions and memory are located. Bilateral lesions of the visual departments lead to cortical blindness. The combination of visual disturbances and disorders of the limbic system constitutes the Klüver-Bucy syndrome. With bilateral damage to the hippocampus and parahippocampus, the patient cannot remember events and facts, i.e., memory loss is observed both in general and in specific aspects (see Chapter 23). And finally, in the temporal lobes is located a significant part of the limbic system, which determines the emotions and motivations of behavior and the activity of the autonomic nervous system (visceral brain).

In addition to aphasia, there are other differences in disorders resulting from lesions of the dominant and subdominant hemispheres. With damage to the dominant hemisphere, auditory memory worsens, with damage to the subdominant hemisphere, the ability to memorize a written text decreases. In addition, 20% of patients with lobectomy of the right or left temporal lobes have personality changes similar to those with damage to the prefrontal regions of the brain (see above).

A study of patients with epileptic seizures resulting from damage to the hook of the brain and manifested in characteristic clouding of consciousness, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations, and masticatory hyperkinesis suggested that the temporal lobes are responsible for organizing all these functions. When stimulating the posterior temporal lobes in an awake patient with epilepsy during operations, it was found that such irritation can evoke complex memories, as well as visual and auditory images, sometimes with strong emotional content. Interesting data were also obtained with stimulation of the amygdala located in the anterior and medial parts of the temporal lobe. There are long-term symptoms resembling those of schizophrenia and manic psychoses. Previously observed complex emotional experiences appear. In addition, pronounced changes in the autonomic nervous system are noted: increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, increased frequency and depth of breathing; the patient looks scared. With temporal lobe epilepsy, there may be an increase in emotional reactions, preoccupation with moral and religious issues, an excessive tendency to paperwork and, sometimes, aggressiveness. Removal of the amygdala eliminates uncontrolled outbursts of anger in patients with psychosis. With bilateral excision of the hippocampus and adjacent convolutions, the ability to memorize or form a new memory is lost (Korsakov's psychosis).

As a result of bilateral destruction of the temporal lobes, both in humans and monkeys, serenity is observed, the ability to recognize visual images is lost, there is a tendency to explore objects by feeling them or taking them in the mouth, as well as hypersexuality. This symptomatology is called the Klüver-Busne syndrome.

The changes that occur with damage to the temporal lobes can be summarized as follows

1. Manifestations of unilateral lesions of the temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere: a) upper quadrant homonymous hemianopsia; b) Wernicke's aphasia; c) deterioration in the assimilation of the material presented by oral speech; d) dysnomia or amnestic aphasia; e) amusia (loss of the ability to read a score, write music, play musical instruments, which was available in the past).

2. Manifestations of unilateral lesions of the temporal lobe of the subdominant hemisphere: a) upper quadrant homonymous hemianopsia; b) in rare cases - inability to assess spatial relationships; c) deterioration in the perception of written material; d) agnosia of non-lexical components of music.

3. Manifestations of damage to any of the temporal lobes: a) auditory illusions and hallucinations; b) psychotic behavior (aggressiveness).

4. Manifestations of bilateral lesions: a) Korsakov's amnestic syndrome; b) apathy and serenity c) increased sexual activity (b, c - s. Kljuvera - Bucy); d) simulated rage; e) cortical deafness; f) loss of other one-way functions.

parietal lobes

The postcentral gyrus is the end point of somatic sensory pathways from the opposite half of the body. Destructive lesions of this area do not entail a violation of skin sensitivity, but mainly cause disorders of discrimination, feelings and various changes in direct sensations. In other words, the perception of pain, tactile, temperature and vibrational stimuli is slightly or not disturbed at all, while stereognosis, the sense of position, the ability to distinguish between two simultaneously applied stimuli (discriminatory feeling) and the sense of localization of applied sensitive stimuli worsens or falls out (atopognosia). In addition, symptoms of prolapse are observed, for example, if irritation (tactile, painful or visual) is applied simultaneously on both sides, then irritation is perceived only on the healthy side. This sensory disturbance is sometimes referred to as cortical sensory disturbance and is described in Chap. 18. Extensive damage to the deep parts of the white matter of the parietal lobes leads to a violation of all types of sensitivity on the side opposite to the pathological focus; if the lesion covers the superficial parts of the temporal lobe, then homonymous hemianopia on the opposite side may occur, often asymmetrical, more in the lower quadrants. When the angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere is damaged, the ability to read (alexia) disappears in patients.

Most modern scientists have paid considerable attention to the functions of the temporal lobes in the perception of position in space, the relationship of objects in space, the relationship of various parts of the body with each other. Since the time of Babinski, it has been known that patients with extensive lesions of the subdominant parietal part often do not realize that they have hemiplegia and hemianesthesia. Babinsky called this condition anosognosia. In this regard, disorders such as the inability to recognize the left arm and leg, neglect of the left side of the body (for example, when dressing) and external space on the left side, the inability to build simple figures (constructive apraxia) arise. All these deficiencies can also occur in left-sided lesions, but are observed infrequently, perhaps because the aphasia that occurs with lesions of the left hemisphere makes it difficult to adequately study other functions of the parietal lobe.

Another common symptom complex, commonly referred to as Gerstmann's syndrome, occurs only with lesions of the parietal lobe of the dominant hemisphere. It is characterized by the inability of the patient to write (agraphia), to count (acalculia), to distinguish between the right and left sides, to recognize fingers (finger agnosia). This syndrome is true agnosia, as it is a violation of the formulation and use of symbolic concepts, including knowledge of numbers and letters, names of body parts. Ideomotor apraxia may also occur, although in some cases it may not be present. Apraxia and agnosia are discussed in Chap. 15 and 18.

The symptoms of lesions of the parietal lobes can be divided into three categories.

1. Symptoms of a unilateral lesion of the parietal lobe, right or left: a) cortical type of sensory disturbance and prolapse symptoms (or total hemianesthesia with extensive acute lesions of the white matter); b) in children - moderate hemiparesis and hemiatrophy on the side opposite to the lesion; c) visual inattention or, less often, homonymous hemianopsia and sometimes anosognosia, ignoring opposite sides of the body and external space (more often with right-sided lesions); d) loss of optokinetic nystagmus on one side.

2. Symptoms of unilateral damage to the parietal lobe of the dominant hemisphere (left hemisphere in right-handers), additional symptoms: a) speech disorders (especially alexia); b) Gerstmann's syndrome; c) bilateral astereognosis (tactile agnosia); d) bilateral ideomotor apraxia.

3. Symptoms of damage to the parietal lobe of the subdominant hemisphere, additional signs: a) a disorder in the sense of localization and orientation, constructive apraxia; b) unawareness of paralysis (anosognosia) and disturbances in the definition of the left and right sides; c) dressing apraxia; d) serene mood, indifference to the disease and neurological defects.

If these lesions are extensive enough, the ability to clearly express thoughts may decrease, memory deteriorates, and inattention appears.

Occipital lobes

In the occipital lobes, the geniculate-occipital pathways end. These parts of the brain are responsible for visual perception and sensations. Destructive damage to one of the occipital lobes leads to the appearance of homonymous hemianopia on the opposite side, i.e., to the loss of a separate area or the entire homonymous visual field. In some cases, patients complain of a change in the shape and contours of visible objects (metamorphopsia), as well as an illusory shift of the image from one field of view to another (visual allesthesia), or the existence of a visual image after the object is removed from the field of view (palinopsia) . Visual illusions and hallucinations (non-figurative) may also occur. Bilateral lesions lead to the so-called cortical blindness, i.e. blindness without changes in the fundus and pupillary reflexes.

In case of damage to zeros 18 and 19 (according to Brodman) of the dominant hemisphere (see Fig. 24.1), the patient cannot recognize the objects he sees, this condition is called visual agnosia. In the classic form of this lesion, patients with preserved mental abilities do not recognize the objects they see, despite the fact that their visual acuity is not reduced, and they do not find visual field defects during perimetry. They can recognize objects by touch or in other ways that are not related to vision. In this sense, alexia, or the inability to read, is visual verbal agnosia, or verbal blindness. Patients see letters and words, but do not understand their meaning, although they recognize them by ear. With bilateral lesions of the occipital lobes, other types of agnosia may also occur, for example, the patient does not recognize the faces of familiar people (prosopagnosia), objects whose elements are distinguished, but not completely (simultagnosia), colors, and Balint's syndrome occurs (inability to look at an object and take him, visual ataxia and inattention).

A detailed discussion of the various syndromes that occur when the individual lobes of the cerebral hemispheres are affected can be found in the manual created by Adams and Victor, and in the Walsh monograph.

Thinking, temperament, habits, perception of events differ in men and women, in people with a dominant right hemisphere of the brain from those who have a more developed left. Some diseases, deviations, injuries, factors that contribute to the activity of certain parts of the brain are related to a person’s life, whether he feels healthy and happy. How does increased activity of the temporal lobe of the brain affect the state of mind of a person?

Location

The upper lateral parts of the hemisphere belong to the parietal lobe. From the front and side, the parietal lobe is limited by the frontal zone, from below - by the temporal zone, from the occipital part - by an imaginary line running from above from the parieto-occipital zone and reaching the lower edge of the hemisphere. The temporal lobe is located in the lower lateral parts of the brain and is emphasized by a pronounced lateral groove.

The front part represents a certain temporal pole. The lateral surface of the temporal lobe displays the upper and lower lobes. The convolutions are located along the furrows. The superior temporal gyrus is located in the area between the lateral groove from above and the superior temporal gyrus from below.

On the upper layer of this area, located in the hidden part of the lateral sulcus, there are two or three convolutions belonging to the temporal lobe. The inferior and superior temporal gyrus are separated by the middle one. In the lower lateral edge (temporal lobe of the brain), the lower temporal gyrus is localized, which is limited to the sulcus of the same name at the top. The posterior part of this gyrus continues in the occipital zone.

Functions

The functions of the temporal lobe are related to visual, auditory, gustatory perception, smell, analysis and speech synthesis. Its main functional center is located in the upper lateral part of the temporal lobe. The auditory center, the gnostic, speech center is localized here.

The temporal lobes are involved in complex mental processes. One of their functions is the processing of visual information. In the temporal lobe there are several visual centers, convolutions, one of which is responsible for face recognition. Through the specified temporal lobe passes the so-called Mayer's loop, the damage of which can cost the loss of the upper part of the vision.

The functions of the brain regions are used depending on the dominant hemisphere.

The temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain is responsible for:

• word recognition;
• operates with long-term and medium-term memory;
• responsible for the assimilation of information when listening;
• analysis of auditory information and partially visual images (at the same time, perception combines the visible and audible into a single whole);
• has a complex-composite memory that combines the perception of touch, hearing and vision, while inside the person there is a synthesis of all signals and their correlation with the object;
• responsible for balancing emotional manifestations.

The temporal lobe of the non-dominant hemisphere is responsible for:

• facial expression recognition;
• analyzes speech intonation;
• regulates the perception of rhythm;
• responsible for the perception of music;
• promotes visual learning.

Left temporal lobe and its damage

The left, as a rule, the dominant share, is responsible for logical processes, contributes to understanding about speech processing. She is assigned the role of control over the character, recalling words, she is associated with short-term and long-term memory.

If a disease or damage is localized in the region of the temporal lobe of the brain of the dominant hemisphere, this is fraught with consequences in the form of:

• aggression towards oneself;
• the development of melancholy, which manifests itself in endless pessimism, thoughts about meaninglessness and negativity;
• paranoia;
• difficulties in arranging phrases in the process of speech, selection of words;
• difficulties in analyzing incoming sounds (impossibility to distinguish crackling from thunder, etc.);
• reading problems;
• emotional imbalance.

Activity rate

As you know, the temporal lobe is at the level of the imaginary temple of glasses - that is, on a line below the level of the ears. The temporal lobes, combined with the activity of the limbic system, make life emotionally rich. Their unity allows us to speak of an emotional brain that is known for cravings and elevated experiences. These experiences make us feel the peak of pleasure or leave us in deep despair.

Normally, with a balanced activity of the temporal lobes and the limbic system, a person has a full-fledged self-awareness, relies on personal experience, experiences a variety of uniform emotions, is prone to experiencing spiritual experience, and is aware of everything. Otherwise, all the listed activities of the human brain will be disrupted, and, therefore, problems in communication and everyday life cannot be avoided.

Damage to the non-dominant hemisphere

The peculiarity of the location of the temporal lobes is the reason why this part of the brain is so vulnerable.

Emotional intelligence makes life meaningful and colorful, but as soon as it gets out of control, cruelty, pessimism and oppression that threaten us and others are shown from the depths of consciousness. Emotional intelligence is an essential element of the operating system of our Self. In psychiatry, ailments associated with these areas of the brain are called temporal lobe epilepsy, but in addition, a disorder in the activity of these areas of the brain can explain many irrational manifestations of personality and, unfortunately, religious experience.

If the non-dominant hemisphere of the temporal lobe of the brain is damaged, emotional speech is perceived incorrectly, music is not recognized, the sense of rhythm is lost, and there is no memory for people's facial expressions.

The explanation for the so-called extrasensory abilities may well lie in non-convulsive seizures, when the functions of the temporal lobes of the brain are impaired.

Manifestations:

• deja vu - the feeling of what has already been seen before;
• perception of the invisible;
• a state like transcendental or sleep;
• inexplicable states of inner experiences, which can be regarded as a merger with another consciousness;
• states characterized as astral travel;
• hypergraphy, which can be manifested by an unbridled desire to write (usually meaningless texts);
• recurring dreams;
• problems with speech, when the ability to express thoughts disappears;
• sudden surges of depressive irritation with thoughts about the negative of everything around.

brain disorders

Unlike epileptic conditions, which are caused by dysfunction of the right temporal lobe of the brain, the feelings of an ordinary person manifest themselves in a planned manner, and not in jumps.

As a result of voluntary subjects, it was revealed that the forced activation of the temporal lobes of the brain is felt by a person as supernatural experiences, sensations of the presence of a non-existent object, angels, aliens, and a feeling of transition beyond life and approaching death was recorded.

Awareness of the double or "other I" arises due to the mismatch of the hemispheres of the brain, according to experts. If emotional perception is stimulated, extraordinary, so-called spiritual experiences arise.

The passive temporal lobe hides intuition, it is activated when there is a feeling that some of the people you know are not well, although you do not see them.

Among patients suffering from an ailment of the middle parts of the temporal lobe, there were cases of the highest emotionality, as a result of which highly ethical behavioral manifestations developed. In the behavior of patients with hyperactive gyri of the temporal lobe, rapid and coherent speaking was observed, and a relative decrease in sexual activity was noticeable. Unlike other patients with a similar type of disease, these patients showed signs of depression and bouts of irritability, which contrasted against the background of their benevolent attitude towards themselves.

Prerequisites for increased activity

Various events can play the role of an irritant in the temporal lobe. Increased activity (temporal lobe convolutions) is possible due to events associated with an accident, lack of oxygen at high altitude, damage during surgery, a jump in sugar levels, prolonged insomnia, drugs, the actual manifestations of the temporal lobe, an altered state of consciousness after meditation, ritual actions.

limbic cortex

Deep in the lateral groove in the temporal lobe is the so-called limbic cortex, resembling an island. A circular groove separates it from adjacent adjacent areas from the side. On the surface of the island, the anterior and posterior parts are visible; it is localized. The inner and lower parts of the hemispheres are combined into the limbic cortex, including the amygdala, olfactory tract, cortical areas

The limbic cortex is a single functional system, the properties of which consist not only in providing a connection with the external, but also in regulating the tone of the cortex, the activity of internal organs, and behavioral reactions. Another important role of the limbic system is the formation of motivation. Internal motivation includes instinctive and emotional components, regulation of sleep and activity.

limbic system

The limbic system models the emotional impulse: negative or positive emotions are its derivatives. Due to its influence, a person has a certain emotional mood. If its activity is reduced, optimism, positive feelings prevail, and vice versa. The limbic system serves as an indicator for evaluating ongoing events.

These areas of the brain have a strong charge of negative or positive memories, recorded in the register of the limbic system. Their importance is that when looking at events through the prism of emotional memory, the ability to survive is stimulated, the resulting impulse stimulates action when it comes to establishing relationships with the opposite sex, or avoiding a dysfunctional suitor who is fixed in memory as having brought pain.

Negative or positive, creates the sum of emotional memories that affect the stability in the present, attitudes, behavior. The deep structures of the limbic system are responsible for building social connections, personal relationships. Based on the results of the experiments, the damaged limbic system of rodents did not allow mothers to show tenderness for their offspring.

The limbic system functions like a switch of consciousness, instantly activating emotions or rational thinking. When the limbic system is calm, the frontal cortex becomes dominant, and when it dominates, behavior is controlled by emotions. In depressive states, people usually have a more active limbic system, and the work of the head cortex is depressed.

Diseases

Many researchers have found a decrease in neuronal density in large temporal lobes of patients who have been diagnosed with schizophrenic illness. According to the research results, the right temporal lobe was larger than the left one. With the course of the disease, the temporal part of the brain decreases in volume. At the same time, there is increased activity in the right temporal lobe and a violation of the connections between the neurons of the temporal and head cortex.

This activity is observed in patients with auditory hallucinations who perceive their thoughts as third-party voices. It has been observed that the stronger the hallucinations, the weaker the connection between the sections of the temporal lobe and the frontal cortex. Disorders of thinking and speech are added to visual and auditory deviations. The superior temporal gyrus of schizophrenic patients is significantly reduced in comparison with the same area of ​​the brain in healthy people.

Hemispheric Health Prevention

As a prevention of full perception, the brain needs training in the form of music, dancing, declaring poetry, playing rhythmic melodies. Movement to the beat of music, singing to the playing of musical instruments improves and harmonizes the functions of the emotional part of the brain when the temporal lobe is activated.

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SYNDROMES IN IMPAIRED PARIETIAL BRAIN

The parietal lobes of the brain are divided into three zones according to their functional role:
superior parietal region
lower parietal region
temporoparietal-occipital subregion

The upper and lower parietal regions border on the postcentral zone (general sensitivity), i.e. cortical center of the skin-kinesthetic analyzer. At the same time, the lower parietal region adjoins the region of representation of the extra- and interoceptors of the hands, face, and speech articulatory organs. The temporo-parietal-occipital subregion is the transition between the kinesthetic, auditory and visual cortical zones (TPO zone, posterior group of tertiary fields). In addition to the integration of these modalities, a complex synthesis is provided here in the subject and speech types of human activity (analysis and synthesis of spatial and "quasi-spatial" parameters of objects).

Syndrome of violation of somatosensory afferent syntheses (CCAS)

This syndrome occurs when the upper and lower parietal regions are affected; the formation of its constituent symptoms is based on a violation of the synthesis factor of skin-kinesthetic (afferent) signals from extra- and proprioceptors.

1.Lower parietal syndrome of SSAS disorder occurs with damage to the post-central mid-lower secondary areas of the cortex, which border on the zones of representation of the hand and the speech apparatus.

Symptoms:
astereognosis (impaired recognition of objects by touch)
"tactile object texture agnosia" (a cruder form of asteregnosis)
"finger agnosia" (inability to recognize one's own fingers with closed eyes),
"tactile alexia" (inability to recognize numbers and letters "written" on the skin)

Possible:
speech defects in the form of afferent motor aphasia, manifested in the difficulties of articulating individual speech sounds and words in general, in mixing close articles
other complex motor disorders of voluntary movements and actions such as kinesthetic apraxia and oral apraxia

2. Upper parietal syndrome of SSAS disorders manifested by disorders of the gnosis of the body, i.e. violations of the "body schema" ("somatognosia").
More often, the patient is poorly oriented in the left half of the body (“hemisomatognosia”), which is usually observed when the parietal region of the right hemisphere is affected.
Sometimes the patient has false somatic images (somatic deceptions, "somatoparagnosia") - sensations of a "foreign" hand, several limbs, reduction, increase in body parts.

With right-sided lesions, own defects are often not perceived - "anosognosia".

In addition to gnostic defects, SSAS syndromes in lesions of the parietal region include modal-specific impairments to memory and attention.
Violations of tactile memory are detected during memorization and subsequent recognition of a tactile sample.

Symptoms of tactile inattention are manifested by ignoring one (often on the left) of two simultaneous touches.

Modal-specific defects (gnostic, mnestic) constitute the primary symptoms of damage to the parietal post-central areas of the cortex; and motor (speech, manual) disorders can be considered as secondary manifestations of these defects in the motor sphere.

Syndrome of violation of spatial syntheses

Also known as "TRS syndrome" - a syndrome of lesions of the tertiary temporo-parietal-occipital cortex, which provide simultaneous (simultaneous) analysis and synthesis at a higher supramodal level ("quasi-spatial" according to Luria).

The defeat of the TPO zone is manifested in:
orientation disorders in external space (especially on the right - on the left)
defects in the spatial orientation of movements and visually spatial actions (constructive apraxia)

In visual-constructive activity, lateral differences are observed, which are easy to detect in tests for drawing (or copying) various objects. Significant differences take place when drawing (copying) real objects (house, table, person) and schematic images (cube or other geometric constructions). At the same time, it is important to evaluate not only the final result of performing a visual-constructive task, but also the dynamic characteristics of the execution process itself.

In the process of drawing (copying), patients with lesions of the TPO zone:
right hemisphere of the brain perform a drawing, first depicting its individual parts, and only then bring it to the whole
with left hemispheric foci visual-constructive activity unfolds in the opposite direction: from the whole to the details

At the same time, patients with damage to the right hemisphere tend to draw realistic parts of the picture (hair, a collar in a person, crossbars at the table, curtains, a porch near the house, etc.), and for left-hemispheric patients - to drawing schematic images.

With right hemispheric foci visual-constructive activity suffers more deeply, as evidenced by the violation of the integrity of the copied or independently depicted drawing. Often, details are taken out of the contour, “applied” to it in random places. Quite often there are such structural errors as the openness of the figure, the violation of symmetry, proportions, the ratio of part and whole. The presence of a sample not only does not help patients with damage to the right hemisphere (in contrast to the left hemisphere), but often makes it difficult and even disorganizes visual-constructive activity.
In addition to the listed symptoms, when the TPO zone is affected, symptoms of agraphia, mirror copying, acalculia, digital agnosia, and speech disorders ("semantic aphasia", "amnestic aphasia") appear.

Violations are noted logical operations and other intellectual processes. Patients are characterized by difficulties in operating with logical relations, requiring for their understanding the correlation of their constituent elements in some conditional, non-visual space (quasi-space).

The latter include specific grammatical constructions, the meaning of which is determined by:
endings of words (father's brother, brother's father)
ways of arranging them (the dress touched the oar, the oar touched the dress)
prepositions reflecting the turn of events in time (summer before spring, spring before summer)
discrepancy between the actual course of events and the word order in the sentence (I had breakfast after reading the newspaper), etc.

Intellectual disorders are manifested by violations of visual-figurative thought processes (such as mental manipulation of voluminous objects or tasks for "technical" thinking). Such patients cannot read the technical drawing, understand the structure of the technical mechanism.

The main manifestations also include violations associated with operations with numbers (arithmetic problems). Understanding the number is associated with a rigid spatial grid of placing the digits of units, tens, hundreds (104 and 1004; 17 and 71), operations with numbers (counting) are possible only if the number scheme and the “vector” of the operation being performed are kept in memory (addition - subtraction; multiplication - division). Solving arithmetic problems requires understanding the conditions that contain logical comparative constructions (more - less by so much, so many times, etc.).
All of these violations are especially pronounced in left-sided lesions (in right-handers). With right-sided lesions in the TPO syndrome, there are no phenomena of semantic aphasia; violations of counting and visual-figurative thinking become somewhat different.

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SYNDROMES OF DAMAGE TO THE OCPITAL SECTIONS OF THE BRAIN

The occipital region of the large hemispheres of the brain provides the processes of visual perception. At the same time, visual gnosis is provided by the work of the secondary parts of the visual analyzer in their relationship with the parietal structures.

With damage to the occipito-parietal parts of the brain, both the left and right hemispheres, various disorders occur visual-perceptual activity, primarily in the form of visual agnosia.

Visual agnosias depend on the side of the brain lesion and the location of the focus inside the "wide visual sphere" (fields 18-19):
in defeat right hemisphere more often there are color, facial and opto-spatial agnosia
in defeat left hemisphere more often there are letter and subject agnosia

Some researchers believe that object agnosia in its expanded form is usually observed with bilateral lesions.

Letter recognition disorders(lesion of the left hemisphere in right-handed people) in their gross form manifest themselves in the form of optical alexia. Unilateral optical alexia (ignoring more often the left half of the text) is usually associated with damage to the occipito-parietal regions of the right hemisphere. Secondarily, writing also suffers.
Modal-specific disorders of visual attention are manifested by symptoms of ignoring one part of the visual space (usually on the left) with a large amount of visual information or with simultaneous presentation of visual stimuli to the left and right visual hemifields.

In the case of a unilateral lesion of the "wide visual zone" one can see a modal-specific impairment of voluntary memorization of a sequence of graphic stimuli, which manifests itself in a narrowing of the volume of reproduction with damage to the left hemisphere and is most pronounced when an interfering task is introduced.

Modal-specific mnestic defect in the visual sphere with damage to the right hemisphere, it is found in the difficulties of reproducing the order of the elements included in the memorized sequence of graphic material.

Violations of visual memory and visual representations usually manifest themselves in drawing defects. The drawing breaks up more often with right-sided lesions.

They take their own place violations of optical-spatial analysis and synthesis. They manifest themselves in the difficulties of orientation in external space (in one's own room, on the street), in the difficulties of visual perception of the spatial features of objects, orientation in maps, in diagrams, in hours.

Defects visual and visual-spatial gnosis are often detected only in special sensitized samples - when examining crossed out, inverted, superimposed figures, with a brief exposure of the image.

Visuo-spatial disturbances can manifest themselves in the motor sphere. Then the spatial organization of motor acts suffers, resulting in spatial (constructive) motor apraxia.
A combination of optical-spatial and motor-spatial disorders is possible - apractognosia.

An independent group of symptoms in lesions of the parietal-occipital cortex(on the border with temporal secondary fields) constitute violations of speech functions in the form of optical-mnestic aphasia. At the same time, the recall of words denoting specific objects is disturbed. This disintegration of visual images of objects is reflected in drawings and disturbances in certain intellectual operations (mental actions).

Thus, the neuropsychological syndromes of damage to the posterior parts of the cerebral cortex include:
gnostic
mnemonic
motor
speech symptoms
caused by violations of visual and visual-spatial factors.

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SYNDROMES IN IMPAIRMENT OF THE TEMPORAL DEPARTMENTS OF THE BRAIN GA

Temporal regions of the brain:
Correlate with the primary and secondary fields of the auditory analyzer, but there are also so-called extra-nuclear zones (T2-zones according to Luria), which also provide other forms of mental reflection.
In addition, the medial surface of the temporal lobes is part of the limbic system involved in the regulation of needs and emotions, is included in memory processes, and provides activation components of the brain. All this leads to a variety of symptoms of HMF disorders in case of damage to various parts of the temporal region, which concern not only acoustic-perceptual functions.

1. Neuropsychological syndromes of damage to the lateral parts of the temporal region

With the defeat of the secondary parts of the temporal region (T1-nuclear zone of the cortex of the sound analyzer according to Luria), a syndrome of auditory, acoustic agnosia in speech (left hemisphere) and non-speech (right hemisphere) spheres. Speech acoustic agnosia is also described as sensory aphasia.

Defects in acoustic analysis and synthesis in the non-speech sphere are manifested:
in violations of the identification of everyday noises, melodies (expressive and impressive amusia)
in violations of the identification of voices by gender, age, familiarity, etc.

Among the functions provided by the joint work of the temporal parts of the right and left hemispheres of the brain is the acoustic analysis of rhythmic structures:
perception of rhythms
keeping rhythms in mind
reproduction of rhythms according to the model (tests for auditory-motor coordination and rhythms)

Due to a violation of phonemic hearing, a whole complex of speech functions disintegrates:
writing (especially from dictation)
reading
active speech

Violation of the sound side of speech leads to a violation of its semantic structure. Arise:
"alienation of the meaning of words"
secondary disorders of intellectual activity associated with the instability of speech semantics

2. Neuropsychological syndrome of damage to the "extra-nuclear" convexital parts of the temporal lobes of the brain

When these devices are damaged, there are:
acoustic-mnestic aphasia syndrome (left hemisphere)
auditory non-verbal memory disorders (right hemisphere of the brain)

Modal-specific impairments of auditory-speech memory are especially pronounced in conditions of interfering activity that fills a short time interval between memorization and reproduction (for example, a small conversation with a patient).

The defeat of the symmetrical parts of the right hemisphere of the brain leads to memory impairment for non-speech and musical sounds. The possibility of individual identification of voices is violated.

3. Syndromes of damage to the medial parts of the temporal region

As already mentioned, this area of ​​the brain is related, on the one hand, to such basal functions in the activity of the brain and mental reflection as the emotional-need sphere, and thus to the regulation of activity.

On the other hand, when these systems are affected, disorders of the highest level of the psyche are observed - consciousness, as a generalized reflection by a person of the current situation in its relationship with the past and future, and of himself in this situation.

Focal processes in the medial parts of the temporal lobes are manifested:
affective disorders such as exaltation or depression
paroxysms of melancholy, anxiety, fear in combination with conscious and experienced autonomic reactions
as symptoms of irritation, there may be disturbances of consciousness in the form of absences and such phenomena as “deja vu” and “jamais vu”, disorientation in time and place, as well as psychosensory disorders in the auditory sphere (verbal and non-verbal auditory deceptions, as a rule, with a critical attitude of the patient towards them), distortions of taste and olfactory sensations

All these symptoms can be identified in a conversation with the patient and in the observation of behavior and emotions during the examination.

The only experimentally studied disorder associated with the pathology of the medial parts of the temporal region is memory impairment.

They have a modally non-specific character, proceed according to the type of anterograde amnesia (memory for the past before the illness remains relatively intact), are combined with disorientation in time and place. They are referred to as amnestic (or Korsakov's) syndrome.

Sick are aware of the defect and seek to compensate through active use of records. The volume of direct memorization corresponds to the lower limit of the norm (5-6 elements). The learning curve for 10 words has a clear tendency to rise, although the learning process is extended over time. However, when an interfering task is introduced between memorization and reproduction (to solve an arithmetic problem), clear violations of the actualization of the material just memorized are visible.

Clinical and experimental data allow us to speak about the main mechanism of the formation of the amnestic syndrome - pathological inhibition of traces by interfering influences, i.e. consider memory impairment in connection with changes in the neurodynamic parameters of brain activity in the direction of the predominance of inhibitory processes.

It is characteristic that when this level is affected, memory impairments appear in a "pure" form without the involvement of side elements in the reproduction product. The patient either names several words available for actualization, noting that he has forgotten the rest, or says that he has forgotten everything, or amnesias the very fact of memorization preceding the interference. This feature indicates the preservation of control over the playback activity.

In addition to the sign of modal non-specificity, the described memory disorders are characterized by the fact that they "capture" different levels of semantic organization of the material(series of elements, phrases, stories), although semantic constructions are remembered somewhat better and can be reproduced with the help of prompts.

There is reason to consider Korsakoff's syndrome as a consequence of a bilateral pathological process., but this has not been conclusively proven. One can only recommend not to be limited to the study of mnestic disorders, but to look for (or exclude) signs of a unilateral deficit in other mental processes.

4. Syndromes of damage to the basal parts of the temporal region

The most common clinical model of the pathological process in the basal parts of the temporal systems are tumors of the wings of the sphenoid bone in the left or right hemisphere of the brain.

Left-sided localization of the focus leads to the formation of a syndrome of impaired auditory-speech memory, different from a similar syndrome in acoustic-mnestic aphasia. The main thing here is the increased inhibition of verbal traces by interfering influences (memorization and reproduction of two "competing" series of words, two phrases and two stories). At the same time, there is no noticeable narrowing of the volume of auditory-speech perception, as well as signs of aphasia.

In this syndrome, there are signs of inertia in the form of repetition when playing the same words.

In tests for the reproduction of rhythmic structures, patients switch with difficulty when moving from one rhythmic structure to another; perseverative performance is observed, which, however, can be corrected.

It cannot be ruled out that pathological inertia in this case is associated with the influence of the pathological process either on the basal parts of the frontal lobes of the brain or on the subcortical structures of the brain, especially since with this localization the tumor can disrupt blood circulation precisely in the system of subcortical zones.

Deep location of the pathological focus in the temporal areas of the brain reveals itself not so much as primary disorders, but as a disorder of the functional state of the systems included in the temporal zones, which in the situation of a clinical neuropsychological examination manifests itself in the partial exhaustion of the functions associated with these zones.

In fact, under conditions of function exhaustion, genuine phonemic hearing disorders occur, which cannot be considered as the result of cortical insufficiency itself, but must be interpreted in connection with the influence of a deep-seated focus on the secondary sections of the temporal region of the left hemisphere of the brain.

Similarly, with deep tumors, other symptoms characteristic of the described syndromes of focal pathology in the temporal regions of the brain may also appear.

The dissociation between the initially available test performance and the appearance of pathological symptoms during the period of “load” on the function gives grounds for concluding that a deep-seated focus predominantly affects the convexital, medial, or basal structures in the left or right hemisphere of the temporal areas of the brain.

The second remark, important in the diagnostic aspect, concerns the difficulties in determining the local zone of damage to the right temporal lobe. It must be borne in mind that the right hemisphere, in comparison with the left, reveals a less pronounced differentiation of structures in relation to the individual components of mental functions and the factors that provide them. In this regard, the interpretation of the syndromes and their constituent symptoms obtained during neuropsychological examination in a narrow local sense should be more careful.

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SYNDROMES IN IMPAIRMENT OF THE FRONTAL BRAIN

The frontal parts of the brain provide self-regulation of mental activity in its components such as:
goal-setting in connection with motives and intentions
formation of a program (selection of means) for the realization of the goal
control over the implementation of the program and its correction
comparison of the result of the activity with the original task.

The role of the frontal lobes in the organization of movements and actions is due to the direct connections of its anterior sections with the motor cortex (motor and premotor zones).

Clinical variants of mental disorders in the local pathology of the frontal lobes:
1) retrofrontal (premotor) syndrome
2) prefrontal syndrome
3) basal frontal syndrome
4) syndrome of damage to the deep parts of the frontal lobes

1. Syndrome of violation of the dynamic (kinetic) component of movements and actions in case of damage to the posterior frontal parts of the brain

Many mental functions can be considered as processes deployed in time and consisting of a number of successively replacing each other links or subprocesses. Such, for example, is the function of memory, which consists of the stages of fixation, storage and actualization. This phasing, especially in movements and actions, is called the kinetic (dynamic) factor and is provided by the activity of the posterior frontal parts of the brain.

The kinetic factor contains two main components:
change of process links (deployment in time)
smoothness (“melodiousness”) of the transition from one link to another, suggesting the timely braking of the previous element, the imperceptibility of the transition and the absence of interruptions

Efferent (kinetic) apraxia, which in the clinical and experimental context is assessed as a violation of dynamic praxis, acts as the central disturbance in the defeat of the posterior frontal region. When memorizing and executing a special motor program, consisting of three successive movements ("fist - rib - palm"), distinct difficulties are found in its execution with the correct memorization of the sequence at the verbal level. Such phenomena can be seen in any motor acts, especially those where the radical of a smooth change of elements is most intensively represented - there is a deautomatization of writing, disturbances in the samples of reproduction of rhythmic structures (serial tapping becomes, as it were, broken; they appear superfluous, noticed by the patient, but difficult to access). impact correction).

With a massive degree of severity of the syndrome the phenomenon of motor elementary perseverations appears. Violent, realized by the patient, but inaccessible to inhibition, the reproduction of an element or a cycle of movement prevents the continuation of the execution of a motor task or its completion. So, in the task of "drawing a circle" the patient draws a repeatedly repeated image of a circle ("skein" of circles). Similar phenomena can also be seen in writing, especially when writing letters consisting of homogeneous elements ("Mishina's car").

The defects described above can be seen when performing motor tasks with both the right and left hands. Wherein:
left hemispheric foci cause the appearance of pathological symptoms both in the counter- and in the ipsilateral lesion of the arm
pathology in the posterior regions of the right hemisphere of the brain appears only in the left hand.

All of these symptoms are most clearly associated with the left hemispheric localization of the pathological process, which indicates the dominant function of the left hemisphere in relation to successively organized mental processes.

2. Syndrome of dysregulation, programming and control of activity in case of damage to the prefrontal sections

The prefrontal parts of the brain belong to the tertiary systems that are formed late both in phylogenesis and in ontogenesis. The leading sign in the structure of this frontal syndrome is the dissociation between the relative preservation of the involuntary level of activity and deficiency in the voluntary regulation of mental processes. Hence, behavior is subject to stereotypes, clichés and is interpreted as a phenomenon of "responsibility" or "field behavior".

Here a special place is occupied by regulatory apraxia, or apraxia of targeted action. It can be seen in tasks for the implementation of conditional motor programs: "When I hit the table once, you raise your right hand, when twice - raise your left hand." Similar phenomena can be seen in relation to other motor programs: mirror uncorrectable execution of the Head test, echopraxic execution of a conflict conditioned reaction (“I will raise my finger, and you will raise your fist in response”).

The regulatory function of speech is also impaired- the verbal instruction is assimilated and repeated by the patient, but does not become the lever by which control and correction of movements are carried out. The verbal and motor components of activity are, as it were, torn off, split off from each other. So, the patient, who is asked to squeeze the examiner's hand twice, repeats "squeeze twice", but does not perform the movement. When asked why he does not follow the instructions, the patient says: "compress twice, already done."

Thus, prefrontal frontal syndrome is characterized by:
violation of arbitrary organization of activity
violation of the regulatory role of speech
inactivity in behavior and when performing tasks of neuropsychological research

This complex defect is especially clearly manifested in motor, as well as intellectual mnestic and speech activity.

A good model of verbal-logical thinking is counting serial operations (subtraction from 100 to 7). Despite the availability of single subtraction operations, under conditions of serial counting, the execution of a task is reduced to replacing the program with fragmented actions or stereotypes (100 - 7 = 93, 84, ... 83, 73 63, etc.). The mnestic activity of patients is disturbed in the link of their arbitrariness and purposefulness. Of particular difficulty are tasks for patients that require sequential memorization and reproduction of two competing groups (words, phrases). Adequate reproduction is replaced by an inert repetition of one of the groups of words or one of 2 phrases.

With damage to the left frontal lobe the violation of the regulatory role of speech, the impoverishment of speech production, and the decrease in speech initiative are especially pronounced. In the case of right-hemispheric lesions, there is disinhibition of speech, an abundance of speech production, and the patient's readiness to quasi-logically explain his mistakes.
However, regardless of the side of the lesion, the patient's speech loses its meaningful characteristics, includes stamps, stereotypes, which, with right-hemispheric foci, gives it the color of "reasoning".

More roughly, with the defeat of the left frontal lobe, inactivity is manifested; decrease in intellectual and mnestic functions.
At the same time, the localization of the lesion in the right frontal lobe leads to more pronounced defects in the field of visual, non-verbal thinking.

Violation of the integrity of the assessment of the situation, narrowing of the volume, fragmentation, characteristic of the right hemispheric dysfunctions of the previously described brain areas, are fully manifested in the frontal localization of the pathological process.

3. Syndrome of emotional-personal and mnestic disorders in case of damage to the basal parts of the frontal lobes

The features of the frontal syndrome here are due to the connection of the basal sections of the frontal lobes with the formations of the "visceral brain". That is why changes in emotional processes come to the fore in it.

Assessment of own disease, cognitive and emotional components of the internal picture of the disease in patients with lesions of the basal parts of the frontal lobes become dissociated, although each of them does not have an adequate level. When presenting complaints, the patient speaks, as it were, not about himself, ignoring significant symptoms (anosognosia).

The general background of mood with right-sided localizations of the process is:
complacently euphoric
manifested by the disinhibition of the affective sphere

The defeat of the basal parts of the left frontal lobe is characterized by a general depressive background of behavior, which, however, is not due to the true experience of the disease, the cognitive component of the internal picture of which the patient lacks.

In general, the emotional world of patients with frontobasal pathology is characterized by:
impoverishment of the affective sphere
the monotony of its manifestations
insufficient criticality of patients in a situation of neuropsychological examination
inadequate emotional response

For basal frontal localizations, a peculiar violation of the neurodynamic parameters of activity is characteristic, characterized, it would seem, by a paradoxical a combination of impulsivity (disinhibition) and rigidity, which give a syndrome of impaired plasticity of mental processes (in thinking and mnestic activity).

Against the background of altered affective processes, a neuropsychological study does not reveal distinct disorders of gnosis, praxis, and speech.
To a greater extent, the functional insufficiency of the basal parts of the frontal lobes affects the intellectual and mnestic processes.

Thinking: the operational side of thinking remains intact, but it is violated in the link of systematic control over activities.

Performing a sequence of mental operations, patients discover:
impulsive slipping on side associations
deviate from the main task
show rigidity when it is necessary to change the algorithm

Memory: the level of achievement fluctuates, but not due to a change in productivity, but due to the predominance of one or another part of the stimulus material in the reproduction product. Luria figuratively denotes this with the phrase: "The tail was pulled out - the nose got stuck, the nose was pulled out - the tail got stuck." Thus, recalling a story consisting of two accent parts, the patient impulsively reproduces its second half, which is closest in time to the moment of actualization. Re-presentation of the story can, due to correction, provide patients with the reproduction of its first half, which inhibits the possibility of moving to the second part.

4. Syndrome of impaired memory and consciousness in case of damage to the medial parts of the frontal lobes of the brain

The medial sections of the frontal lobes are included by Luria in the first block of the brain - the block of activation and tone. At the same time, they are part of a complex system of the anterior parts of the brain, so the symptoms that are observed in this case acquire a specific color due to the disorders that are characteristic of the defeat of the prefrontal parts.

With the defeat of the medial sections, two main sets of symptoms are observed:
disturbance of consciousness
memory impairment

Disturbances of consciousness are characterized by:
disorientation in place, time, one's disease, in one's own personality
patients cannot accurately name their place of residence (geographical point, hospital)
often there is a "station syndrome" - in orientation, random signs acquire a special role here, when the patient, according to the type of "field behavior", interprets the situation of his location

So, the patient lying under the net (due to psychomotor agitation), when asked where he is, answers that in the tropics, because. "Very hot and mosquito net." Sometimes there is a so-called dual orientation, when the patient, without feeling any contradictions, answers that he is simultaneously in two geographical locations.

Disturbances in orientation in time are noticeable:
in estimates of objective time values ​​(date) - chronologies
in assessments of its subjective parameters - chronognosia

Patients cannot name the year, month, day, season, their age, the age of their children or grandchildren, the duration of the disease, the time spent in the hospital, the date of the operation or the length of time after it, the current time of the day or the period of the day (morning, evening).

Symptoms of disorientation in the most pronounced form are found in bilateral lesions of the medial parts of the frontal lobes of the brain. However, they also have specific lateral features:
At right hemisphere damage In the brain, there is more often a dual orientation in place or ridiculous answers about the place of one's stay, associated with a confabulatory interpretation of the elements of the environment. Disorientation in time according to the type of violation of chronognosia is also more typical for right-hemispheric patients. The chronology may remain intact.

Memory disorders in the defeat of the medial parts of the frontal lobes are characterized by three features:
modal non-specificity
violation of delayed (under interference conditions) playback compared to relatively intact immediate playback
violation of the selectivity of reproduction processes

According to the first two signs, mnestic disorders are similar to the memory impairments described above in case of damage to the medial parts of the temporal region (hippocampus), as well as to those memory defects that are characteristic of damage to the hypothalamic-diencephalic region.

Violation of the mnestic function extends to the memorization of material of any modality, regardless of the level of semantic organization of the material. The volume of direct memorization corresponds to the indicators of the norm in their middle and lower limits. However, the introduction of an interfering task into the interval between memorization and reproduction has a retroactive inhibitory effect on the possibility of reproduction. With the similarity of these signs of a mnestic defect at different levels of the first block of the brain, damage to the medial parts of the frontal lobes introduces its own features into amnesia: a violation of the selectivity of reproduction associated with a lack of control during actualization. “Contamination” (contamination) appears in the reproduction product due to the inclusion of stimuli from other memorized series, from the interfering task. When the story is reproduced, confabulations take place in the form of inclusion in it of fragments from other semantic passages. Consistent memorization of two phrases "Apple trees grew in the garden behind a high fence." (1) "At the edge of the forest, the hunter killed the wolf." (2) forms in the process of actualization the phrase: "In the garden behind a high fence, a hunter killed a wolf." Contamination and confabulation can also be represented by non-experimental fragments from the patient's past experience. In essence, we are talking about the impossibility of slowing down uncontrollably pop-up side associations.

Right-sided lesions are characterized by:
More pronounced confabulations - correlates with speech disinhibition
Disturbances of selectivity also concern the actualization of past experience (For example, listing the characters of the novel "Eugene Onegin", the patient constantly attaches to them the characters of Oman "War and Peace".).
There is a so-called. “amnesia for the source” (The patient involuntarily reproduces previously remembered material at a random prompt, but is not able to arbitrarily recall the very fact of the memorization that took place. For example, assimilating the motor stereotype “raise the right hand for one blow, the left hand for two”, after the interference of the patient cannot arbitrarily remember exactly what movements he performed. However, if you start tapping on the table, he quickly actualizes the previous stereotype and begins to alternately raise his hands, explaining this by the need to "move in conditions of hypokinesia".).
An interfering task can lead to alienation, refusal to recognize the products of one’s activity (Showing a patient his drawings or a text written by him after some time, one can sometimes see his bewilderment and the inability to answer the question: “Who drew this?”).

Left-sided lesions of the medial-frontal regions, characterized by all the above general features, including impaired reproduction selectivity, look less pronounced in terms of the presence of contamination and confabulation, which, apparently, is due to general inactivity and unproductive activity. At the same time, there is a predominant deficit in the memorization and reproduction of semantic material.

5. Syndrome of damage to the deep parts of the frontal lobes of the brain

Tumors located in the deep parts of the frontal lobes of the brain, capturing the subcortical nodes, are manifested by a massive frontal syndrome, the central ones in the structure of which are:
gross violation of purposeful behavior (aspontaneity)
replacement of the actual and adequate performance of activities by systemic perseverations and stereotypes

In practice, with the defeat of the deep sections of the frontal lobes, a complete disorganization of mental activity is observed.

The aspontaneity of patients is manifested by a gross violation of the motivational-need sphere. Compared with inactivity, where the initial stage of activity is still present and patients form, under the influence of instructions or internal impulses, the intention to complete the task, aspontaneity characterizes, first of all, a violation of the first, initial stage. Even the biological needs for food and water do not stimulate the spontaneous reactions of patients. Patients are untidy in bed, the bodily discomfort associated with this also does not cause attempts to get rid of it. The “core” of the personality is broken, interests disappear. Against this background, the orienting reflex is disinhibited, which leads to a pronounced phenomenon of field behavior.

The replacement of a conscious action program with a well-established stereotype that has nothing to do with the main program is the most typical for this group of patients.

In an experimental study of patients, despite the difficulties of interaction with them, it is possible to objectify the process of stereotypy. It should be emphasized their violent nature, the profound impossibility of inhibiting the once actualized stereotype. Their occurrence is based not only on pathological inertia, which is also observed with damage to the premotor region, but on the obvious stagnation, rigidity, and torpidity of those forms of activity that have been induced in the patient.

Elementary Perseverations, arising from the defeat of the premotor-subcortical zone, in this syndrome become especially pronounced. At the same time, systemic perseverations arise as a violent reproduction of the mode of action template, its stereotyping. The patient, for example, after performing the action of writing, when going to the task to draw a triangle, draws it with the inclusion of elements of the letter in the outline. Another example of systemic perseveration is the impossibility of carrying out the instruction to draw “two circles and a cross”, since here the patient draws a circle four times. The stereotype that quickly forms at the beginning of the performance (“two circles”) turns out to be stronger than the verbal instruction.

We should not forget about the radical exhaustion characteristic of all deep tumors.(specific to a certain area of ​​the brain) mental function with an increase in the load on it, in particular, with the duration of work within the same system of actions.

With regard to the syndrome of deep frontal tumors, this provision is important in the sense that spontaneity and gross perseveration can occur quite quickly, already in the process of working with the patient.

Deeply located processes in the frontal parts of the brain capture not only the subcortical nodes, but also fronto-diencephalic connections providing ascending and descending activating influences.

Thus, in essence, with a given localization of the pathological process, we have a complex set of pathological changes in the functioning of the brain, leading to the pathology of such components of mental activity as:
goal setting
programming
control (frontal cortex proper)
tonic and dynamic organization of movements and actions (subcortical nodes)
energy supply of the brain
regulation and activation (frontal-diencephalic connections with both vectors of activating influences)

The defeat of the temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere usually leads to speech agnosia and a speech disorder of the type of sensory aphasia, combined with alexia and agraphia, manifestations of semantic aphasia are less common. With damage to the posterior parts of the temporal lobe, letter agnosia and the resulting alexia and agraphia without aphasia are possible, which are often combined with acalculia. The defeat of the right temporal lobe may be accompanied by a violation of the differentiation of non-speech sounds, in particular, amusia. In such cases, the right hemispheric pathology sometimes leads to a disorder in the adequate assessment of the speech intonations of speech addressed to the patient. He understands the words, but does not capture their emotional coloring, which usually reflects the mood of the speaker. In this regard, the joke or the affectionate tone of the speech addressed to the sick is not caught by him. The result may be inadequate reactions on his part to what was said. With irritation of the temporal lobe, there may be auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and sometimes visual hallucinations, which usually represent an aura of seizures characteristic of temporal lobe epilepsy. Temporal epilepsy can manifest itself in the form of mental equivalents, periods of ambulatory automatism, metamorphopsia - a distorted perception of the size and shape of surrounding objects, in particular macro- or microphotopsia, in which all surrounding objects appear too large or unnaturally small, as well as a state of derealization, with which the patient has a changed attitude to reality. An unfamiliar situation is perceived as familiar, already seen (deja vu), already experienced (deja vecu), known as unknown, never seen (jamais vu), etc. In temporal epilepsy, pronounced vegetative disorders, inadequate emotional reactions, progressive personality changes are common, while the epileptogenic focus is more often located in the medial structures of the temporal lobe. Bilateral damage to the mediobasal parts of the temporal lobe, which are part of the hippocampal circle, is usually accompanied by memory impairment, primarily memory for current events, such as amnesia in Korsakoff's syndrome. With the localization of the pathological focus in the deep parts of the temporal lobe on the opposite side, an upper quadrant homonymous congruent (symmetrical) hemianopsia occurs due to damage to the visual radiation. With the defeat of the amygdala, located in the depth of the anteromedial temporal lobe, complex changes occur in the emotional and mental spheres, autonomic disorders - an increase in blood pressure. The Kluver-Bucy syndrome known in the literature (inability to recognize objects by sight or touch and the resulting desire to grab them with the mouth in combination with emotional disorders) was described in 1938 by American researchers, the neuropathologist N. Kluver and the neurosurgeon R. Vis, who observed this pathology in an experiment on monkeys after removal of the mediobasal parts of the temporal lobes from both sides. No one has yet seen this syndrome in the clinic. ++ The occipital lobe provides mainly visual sensations and perceptions. Irritation of the cortex of the medial surface of the occipital lobe causes photopsia in opposite halves of the visual fields. Photopsies may be a manifestation of a visual aura indicating a likely occipital localization of the epileptogenic focus. In addition, the cause of photopsia may be manifestations of severe angiodystonia in the basin of the cortical branches of the posterior cerebral artery at the onset of an attack of ophthalmic (classic) migraine. Destructive changes in one of the occipital lobes lead to complete or partial homonymous congruent hemianopia on the opposite side. in this case, the lesion of the upper lip of the spur sulcus is manifested by lower quadrant hemianopsia, and the development of the pathological process in the lower lip of the same sulcus leads to upper quadrant hemianopsia. It is necessary to pay attention to the fact that even complete (edged) homonymous hemianopsia is usually accompanied by the preservation of central vision. The defeat of the convexital cortex of the occipital lobe (fields 18, 19) can cause visual impairment, the appearance of illusions, visual hallucinations, manifestations of visual agnosia, Balint's syndrome. In cases of impaired function of the thalamocortical pathways, in particular optic radiation, Riddoch's syndrome may occur. It is characterized by a decrease in attention, a violation of orientation on the ground, the ability to accurately localize visible objects. The difficulty of understanding the position of an object in space increases if the object is on the periphery of the field of vision. Patients are not aware of their defect (a kind of anosognosia). Homonymous hemihypopsia or hemianopsia is possible, but central vision is usually preserved. The syndrome was described in 1935 by the English physician G. Riddoch (1888-1947).

IV. Temporal lobe injury the right hemisphere (in right-handers) may not give distinct symptoms. Nevertheless, in most cases it is possible to establish some symptoms of prolapse or irritation, characteristic of both hemispheres. quadrant hemianopia, passing gradually with progressive processes into a complete hemianopia of the same name in opposite visual fields, is sometimes one of the early symptoms of damage to the temporal lobe. The cause of quadrant hemianopsia lies in the incomplete defeat of the fibers of the Graciole bundle (radiatio optica). Ataxia, more pronounced (like the frontal) in the trunk, causes mainly disorders of standing and walking. deviations of the body and a tendency to fall backwards and to the side, often opposite to the affected hemisphere. slipping inside in the hand opposite to the hearth. Atactic disorders in processes in the temporal lobe arise as a result of damage to those areas from which the occipital-temporal path of the bridge (tractus corticopontocerebellaris) begins, connecting the temporal lobe with the opposite hemisphere of the cerebellum.

Auditory, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations which are sometimes the initial symptom (“aura”) of an epileptic seizure, are manifestations of irritation of the corresponding analyzers localized in the temporal lobes. The destruction of these sensitive zones (one-sided) does not cause noticeable disorders in hearing, smell and taste (each hemisphere is connected with its perceiving apparatus on the periphery on both sides - its own and the opposite).

bouts of vestibular-cortical vertigo, accompanied by a feeling of violation of the spatial relationships of the patient with surrounding objects; often a combination of such dizziness with auditory hallucinations (hums, noises, buzzing).

Unlike lesions in the right hemisphere, lesions in left temporal lobe(in right-handers) often entail severe disorders.

The most common symptom is sensory aphasia, resulting from the defeat of Wernicke's area, located in the posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus. The patient loses the ability to understand speech. Heard words and phrases are not associated with their corresponding representations, concepts or objects; the patient's speech becomes incomprehensible in exactly the same way as if they were speaking to him in a language unfamiliar to him. It is extremely difficult to establish contact with such a patient through speech: he does not understand what they want from him, what he is asked for and what is offered to him. At the same time, the patient's own speech is also disturbed. Unlike a patient with motor aphasia, patients with Wernicke's area can speak and are often over-talkative and even talkative, but speech becomes irregular; instead of the desired word, another is erroneously pronounced, letters are replaced or words are placed incorrectly. In severe cases, the patient's speech becomes completely incomprehensible, representing a meaningless set of words and syllables ("salad of words"). Violation of the correctness of speech, despite the safety of Broca's area, is explained by the fact that as a result of the defeat of Wernicke's area, control over one's own speech falls out. A patient with sensory aphasia does not understand not only someone else's speech, but also his own: hence a number of errors, irregularities, etc. (paraphasia). The patient does not notice defects in his speech. If a patient with motor aphasia is annoyed with himself and his helplessness in speech, then a patient with sensory aphasia is sometimes annoyed with people who cannot understand him.

Another very peculiar type of aphasia is amnestic aphasia - a symptom of damage to the posterior temporal and lower parietal lobe. With this disorder, the ability to determine the “name of objects” drops out. When talking with a patient, sometimes it is not immediately possible to notice a defect in his speech: he speaks quite freely, builds his speech correctly, and is understandable to others. Nevertheless, it is noticeable that the patient often "forgets" words and that his phrases are poor in nouns. The defect is detected immediately if you invite him to name objects: instead of the name, he begins to describe their purpose or properties. So, without naming the pencil, the patient says: “This is for writing”; about a piece of sugar: “What they put, interfere, is made sweet, they drink,” etc. When prompting the name of the patient, the patient confirms the correctness of it or rejects it if the item is named incorrectly. The patient explains his failures by the fact that he "forgot the name of this or that object" (hence the term - amnestic aphasia).

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