PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Function. The parietal lobe is vital for sensory perception and integration, including the management of taste, hearing, sight, touch, and smell. It is home to the brain’s primary somatic sensory cortex (see image 2), a region where the brain interprets input from other areas of the body.

Detailed explanation-2: -The parietal lobes are primarily responsible for receiving and processing sensory input such as touch, pressure, heat, cold, and pain. The parietal lobes are also involved in the perception of body awareness and the construction of a spatial coordinate system (mental map) to represent the world around us.

Detailed explanation-3: -Your brain’s parietal lobe is a key part of your understanding of the world around you. It processes your sense of touch and assembles input from your other senses into a form you can use. Your parietal lobe also helps you understand where you are in relation to other things that your senses are picking up around you.

Detailed explanation-4: -Your parietal lobe is located between your frontal and occipital lobes and above your temporal lobe. Functions of your parietal lobe include: Sensory information (touch, pressure, pain, position, vibration, temperature) processing. Spatial processing and spatial manipulation.

Detailed explanation-5: -This area of the parietal lobe can also perceive the shape and texture of objects through touch, as well as aiding with spatial recognition. Therefore, damage to the somatosensory cortex could result in difficulties perceiving touch, difficulties recognising objects by touch, and difficulty recognising one’s own body.