Right+-+Left+Disorientation

//Symptoms//: Disorientation of establishing Right vs. left (e.g. "show me your right hand", "Touch your left ear with your right hand") In general, these patients have difficulty differentiating between the right and left halves of their body or the bodies of others. In mild cases only the crossed commands may be performed deficiently. Nevertheless, individuals with aphasic disorders generally perform most poorly of all brain damaged groups/. Even among presumably neurologically intact adults, approximately 18% of females and 9% of men perform deficiently on right-left orientation tasks.
 * RIGHT-LEFT DISORIENTATION.**

//Regions Affected:// usually left hemisphere and left parieto-occipital damage. Extremely rare with right cerebral damage.

While this may seem odd as the right hemisphere is very spatially involved, orientation to the left or right transcends geometric space as it relies on language. That is, "left" and "right" are designated by words and defined linguistically. In this regard, left and right become subordinated to language usage and organization.