Neurological and neuropsychological characteristics of occipital, occipito-temporal and occipito-parietal infarction

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• 作者：Antje Kraft^a ; ^{antje.kraft@charite.de" class="auth_mail} ; Cathleen Grimsen^b ; Stefanie Kehrer^a ; Markus Bahnemann^a ; Karoline Spang^b ; Maren Prass^b ; Kerstin Irlbacher^a ; Martin Kö ; hnlein^a ; Anika Lipfert^a ; Freimuth Brunner^c ; Andreas Kastrup^c ; Manfred Fahle^b ; ^d ; Stephan A. Brandt^a
• 关键词：Infarct topography ; Lesion-symptom mapping ; Stroke ; Vision
• 刊名：Cortex
• 出版年：July 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：56
• 期：Complete
• 页码：38-50
• 全文大小：2011 K

文摘

Neuropsychological deficits after occipital infarction are most often described in case studies and only a small sample of studies has attempted to exactly correlate the anatomical localization of lesions with associated neuropsychological symptoms. The present study investigated a large number of patients (N = 128) in order to provide an overview of neurological and neuropsychological deficits after occipital, occipito-temporal and occipito-parietal infarction. A particular approach of the study was to define exact anatomical correlates of neuropsychological dysfunction by using voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) in 61 patients. In addition to a visual field defect and phosphenes, patients often reported anomia, difficulties in reading and memory deficits. Visual disorders, such as achromatopsia, akinetopsia or prosopagnosia, were rarely reported by the patients. Memory and visual disorders were diagnosed efficiently using simple clinical screening tests, such as the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test for immediate recall, the Demtect and the Lang Stereo Test. Visual field defects, reading disorders and the perception of phosphenes were associated primarily with lesions of the calcarine sulcus. Anomia and memory deficits were related to lesions of the occipital inferior gyrus, the lingual gyrus and hippocampus, as well as to lesions of principal white matter tracts.