A young man with an arrow in his head arrives at hospital following ethnic clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area January 26, 2008. Kenyans in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru feared more violence on Saturday after a disputed election triggered pitched battles between ethnic gangs that killed at least a dozen people.
The entry wound, though the picture only shows the anterior view, looks like it pierced through the upper right quadrant of the temporal lobe or the lower left quadrant of the parietal lobe. The consequences of this is disastrous for the individual in the picture, neurologically speaking.
1. Any subvisceral damage to the left parietal lobe will lead to "Gerstmann's Syndrome." It includes right-left confusion, difficulty with writing (agraphia) and difficulty with mathematics (acalculia). It can also produce disorders of language (aphasia) and the inability to perceive objects normally (agnosia).
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2. If the entry wound was in the upper right quadrant of the temporal lobe, the effects of any subvisceral damage would be decreased recall of verbal and visual content, including speech perception. Additionally, a decrease in memory recognition would manifest.
The individual in the picture survived the attack; however, not without suffering irepairable damage in the central nervous system. Particularly in the periphery of the cerebral cortex.
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