Patients with Heading Disorientation Are Unable to Plan a Course

question 11

Multiple Choice

Patients with heading disorientation are unable to plan a course of direction, despite being able to describe where they want to go. This disorder is associated with lesions to which brain region?

• A) right posterior cingulate cortex
• B) left posterior cingulate cortex
• C) right anterior cingulate cortex
• D) left anterior cingulate cortex

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