A nurse is performing a neurological assessment on a patient who recently suffered an ischemic stroke affecting the occipital lobe. Which of the following findings would be most consistent with this area of brain injury?

Rationale: A. Impaired judgment and poor impulse control are more commonly associated with frontal lobe damage. B. The occipital lobe is responsible for visual processing. Damage here can cause visual disturbances, hallucinations, or agnosia (inability to recognize visual stimuli). C. Balance and coordination issues, such as a wide-based gait, are typically related to cerebellar dysfunction, not occipital lobe injury. D. Inability to comprehend language with fluent but nonsensical speech suggests Wernicke’s aphasia, which involves the temporal lobe, not the occipital lobe.