BRAIN
CEREBRUM
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Question
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Match each disorder with the most likely location of the lesion:Secondary somatosensory cortex
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Inability to name objects, despite intact automatic social speech
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Inability to button a shirt, despite an intact sensation, motor control, and understanding of the task
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Inability to answer the question “Where are we now?”
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Inability to identify an object by touch and manipulation, despite having an intact awareness of discriminative touch
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Astereognosis is used to describe both the inability to discriminate shape and size by touch and the inability to recognize objects by touch. These are apperceptive and associative types of agnosia. The term tactile agnosia is used for the associative type.
Detailed explanation-2: -The secondary somatosensory cortex is located in the superior bank of the Sylvian fissure, where it makes up a major part of the parietal operculum.
Detailed explanation-3: -Assessing touch, temperature, position, vibration, pressure and pain information from your body. These functions are processed by an area of your parietal lobe called the somatosensory cortex.
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