What is a parietal stroke and is it different to the type of stokes more commonly talked about?
A parietal stroke is where the parietal lobes have reduced blood flow called an infarct/stroke, there are two parietal lobes one on each side of the head, one lobe is known as the dominant and the other as the non-dominant, e.g. a right handed person will have a left side dominant hemisphere. this is important as different structures are represented within the different dominance of the lobes, in a stroke affecting the dominant lobe: discriminatory sensory impairement to the opposite side of the body, Wernickes receptive dysphasia(fluent speech but talks gibberish and has poor understanding of verbal commmunication), visual field defect, finger agnosia(inability to recognise and identify the fingers of the hand correctly, dyscalculia(calculation impairment of basic arithmetic), dyslexia. this is just an example of possible impairments suffered by a right handed patient with a lesion/infarct of the left parietal lobe. yes it is different to other types of strokes but only in the fact of
