Does Your Florida Brain Injury Lawyer Know His Lobes?
Learning about the brain can greatly help you understand a brain injury and the severity of any traumatic blow to the head.
We’ve clipped a look at the occipital lobes, courtesy of NeuroSkills.com.
Any future Florida brain injury laywers out there or aspiring physicians that have this memorized?
Occipital Lobes: Most posterior, at the back of the head.
Functions
- Vision
Observed Problems
- Defects in vision (Visual Field Cuts)
- Difficulty with locating objects in environment
- Difficulty with identifying colors (Color Agnosia)
- Production of hallucinations Visual illusions – inaccurately seeing objects
- Word blindness – inability to recognize words
- Difficulty in recognizing drawn objects
- Inability to recognize the movement of an object (Movement Agnosia)
- Difficulties with reading and writing
