Temporal lobe syndrome

Temporal lobe syndrome is characterized by the following symptoms:

Symptoms

 * Psychological disorders – an organic psychosyndrome, that can even resemble a prefrontal syndrome
 * Behavioural disorders – sometimes even psychotic features or aggressiveness, dream-like feelings, depersonalization
 * Perception disorders - (different from prefrontal syndrome) – pseudo-hallucinations, the illusion that the patient has already seen, heard or experienced the given thing, or on the contrary does not recognize familiar persons or things
 * Wernicke's or amnestic aphasia in a lesion of the dominant hemisphere
 * disorder of spatial orientation with a lesion of the non-dominant hemisphere, neglect syndrome
 * Cortical deafness in bilateral lesions
 * they can also be:
 * dizziness
 * contralateral homonymous hemianopsia in a white matter lesion with radiatio optica violation
 * partial complex epileptic seizure
 * unciform crisis – bouts of olfactory parosmia, mostly unpleasant olfactory sensations (cacosmia). These are pseudo-hallucinations (the patient is aware of the pathology of perception, has insight).
 * dreamy states

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