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fiber pathway responsible for ipsilateral pursuit in the parietal lobe. When these fibers are damaged,
patients have poor pursuit toward the side of the lesion. This
deficit can be brought out by rotation of an OKN Most drum or horizontal movement of an OKN
stripe in one direction and then in the other, necessitating repetitive rapid pursuit movements in the
direction of drum/stripe movement followed by refixation sac posterior cades in the opposite
direction (Video 12.2)
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despite repeated in
understanding of the instructions, and an apparentterior willingness to comply. Other types of visual
distur
Patients with parietal lobe lesions and homony tend mous visual field defects often are unaware of
their visual deficits. This phenomenon is more likely to occur when the underlying
nondominant cerebral hemisphere (usually the right parietal lobe), but it also can occur in patients
with
dominant parietal lobe lesions. In other patients, the primary visual pathways may be unaffected or
mini- mally affected, but the patient neglects the contralat Because eral visual field.
abnormality is in the
The parietal lobe is the principal sensory area of the cerebral cortex, and its postcentral convolution
Occipital Lobe