astereognosis การใช้

• Astereognosis refers specifically to those who lack tactile recognition in both hands.
• Astereognosis is the inability to identify an object by touch.
• Damage to the superior parietal lobule can cause contralateral astereognosis and hemispatial neglect.
• This supports the notion that astereognosis appears to be an associative disorder in which the connections between tactile information and memory is disturbed.
• Astereognosis, the inability to identify a physical object solely by touch, is commonly found in conjunction with agraphesthesia in Alzheimer's patients.
• Astereognosis is associated with lesions of the parietal lobe or dorsal column or parieto-temporo-occipital lobe ( posterior association areas ) of either the right or left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex.
• A deficit known as "'cortical "'astereognosis "'of the receptive type "'describes an inability to make use of tactile sensory information for identifying objects placed in the hand.