Quantitative evaluation of visual gnosis in children with focal brain lesions
Pencheva, S.; Zaprianova, L.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 83(10): 1488-1492
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 6659781 Document Number: 214881
Bearing in mind the opinion of many authors on a great plasticity and interchangeability of the brain cortical functional systems in children the authors have carried out an experiment with 40 children with focal damages of the brain hemispheres, in 20 of whom the right, and in the other 20 the left hemisphere was affected. Use was made of the method of visual gnosis quantitative assessment in the modification of Pencheva and Mavlov (1975). In the children with the focal damages, more or less marked disturbances of the visual gnosis were revealed, however, no statistically significant relationship between the disturbances and the brain side were disclosed. The agnostic disorders were equally frequent in the children of both groups.