Does Your Florida Brain Injury Lawyer Know His Lobes?

Learning about the brain can greatly help you understand a brain injury and the severity of any traumatic blow to the head.

We’ve clipped a look at the occipital lobes, courtesy of NeuroSkills.com.

Any future Florida brain injury laywers out there or aspiring physicians that have this memorized?

Occipital Lobes: Most posterior, at the back of the head.

Functions

• Vision

Observed Problems

• Defects in vision (Visual Field Cuts)
• Difficulty with locating objects in environment
• Difficulty with identifying colors (Color Agnosia)
• Production of hallucinations Visual illusions – inaccurately seeing objects
• Word blindness – inability to recognize words
• Difficulty in recognizing drawn objects
• Inability to recognize the movement of an object (Movement Agnosia)
• Difficulties with reading and writing