Clinical assessment of parietal lobe function.

Tabi YA., Husain M.

The notion of specific assessments of the function of a particular lobe of the brain is in many ways archaic. Advances in our understanding of brain network function have revealed that brain functions are underpinned by large-scale networks with long range connections between cortical distant regions. It would, therefore, be more correct to discuss the contributions of parietal areas to specific functions. Nevertheless, in clinical practice, as we show here, simple bedside assessment can still often point towards parietal dysfunction, or at least reveal an impairment in a function to which parietal regions normally contribute.

DOI

10.1136/pn-2023-003746

Type

Journal article

Journal

Pract Neurol

Publication Date

16/06/2023

Keywords

CLINICAL NEUROLOGY, COGNITION, COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

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