The nurse assessing a patient with a head injury due to a motor vehicle accident who is experiencing temporary blindness in the left eye would be correct in documenting this abnormal finding as corresponding to which of the following cerebral lobes?
A) Temporal
B) Occipital
C) Parietal
D) Frontal
Ans: B
Feedback: The posterior (occipital) lobe of the cerebral hemisphere is responsible for visual interpretation. The temporal lobe contains the auditory receptive areas. The parietal lobe contains the primary sensory cortex and is essential to an individual's awareness of the body in space, as well as orientation in space and spatial relations. The frontal lobe functions in concentration, abstract thought, information storage or memory, and motor function.
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