Topographical Disorientation

Topographical disorientation, also called topographical agnosia or place blindness, is the inability to orient oneself in one's surroundings or find one's way through a familiar or unfamiliar environment, usually as a result of focal brain damage. It generally reflects either a failure to make use of spatial cues such as landmarks, or an inability to build the mental cognitive map ordinarily used for navigation, and can be considered part of a broader category of impairment called visuospatial dysgnosia. It may be present from birth, follow a stroke, or emerge gradually during a progressive illness such as Alzheimer's disease, and it frequently occurs together with other conditions including hemispatial neglect and prosopagnosia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/