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Somatosensory and motor disturbances of hand function were examined in 9 patients with parietal lobe lesions. A quantitative score was used for the elaboration of sensorimotor profiles displaying the relative degree of functional impairment. In patients with anterior parietal lobe lesions somaesthesis was clearly more disturbed than motor function. Simple aspects of somaesthesis (surface sensibility two-point discrimination, position sense) were disturbed to about the same degree as complex somatosensory (tactile recognition) tasks On the other hand, patients with lesions of the posterior parietal lobe showed preferential impairment of complex somatosensory and motor functions (exploratory and manipulative finger movements).

Langue : ANGLAIS

Tiré à part : OUI

Identifiant basis : 1990001709