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Agnosia for Streets and Defective Root Finding Nobuyoshi Takahashi 1 1Department of Rehabilitation Sciences,Chiba Prefectural University of Health Sciences Keyword: topographical disorientation , agnosia for streets , defective root finding parahippocampal gyrus , retrosplenial region pp.830-838
Published Date 2011/8/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1416100974
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Abstract

 Topographical disorientation is identified as a condition in which patients are unable to find their way in familiar surroundings, such as their home neighborhood or the admitting hospital after the onset of illness. I proposed to classify topographical disorientation into two categories: agnosia for streets (landmark agnosia) and defective root finding (heading disorientation).

 Patients with agnosia for streets are unable to identify familiar buildings and landscapes. They can, however, morphologically perceive them and remember their way around familiar areas. The lesions are located in the right posterior part of the parahippocampus gyrus, anterior half of the lingual gyrus and adjacent fusiform gyrus. Clinical findings and functional imaging studies suggest that these regions play a crucial role in the interaction between the visual information of streets and memories of them, which are thought to be retained in the right anterior part of the temporal lobe. In particular, the posterior part of the parahippocampus gyrus is critical for the acquisition of novel information.

 On the other hand,patients with defective root finding can identify familiar streets,but cannot remember their own location or positional relation between two points within a comparatively wide range not surveyable at one time. The lesions are located in the right retrosplenial cortex (Areas 29,30),posterior cingulate cortex (Areas 23,31) and precuneus. Clinical findings and functional imaging studies suggest that these regions are involved in the orientation function for navigating in wide spaces. In particular,the retrosplenial cortex is critical for encoding novel information.


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