A severe frontal-parietal lobe syndrome following cerebellar damage.
We report a case study of a frontal and parietal lobe syndrome with memory loss after unilateral left-sided cerebellar damage caused by a stroke in a patient with right cerebellar unusual developmental agenesis. The syndrome consisted of severe deficits in planning an organized sequence of events, in visuo-constructive abilities and inappropriate jocularity. These changes are ascribed in part to cerebellar-pontine lesions with resulting frontal lobe diaschisis as documented by single-photon emission computed tomography in the absence of morphological damage to the neocortex.
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Research Centre, Behavioral Neurology, Neurobiology and Neuropsychology Unit, CHUM/Campus Hôtel-Dieu, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1T8, Canada. botezmat@magellan.umontreal.ca
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010551:Personality; D020521:Stroke / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed