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form sensory homunculus
neurons that send sensory information to the cerebral cortex synapse on pyramidal neurons in the post central gyrus
motor humunculus
cell bodies of pyramidal neurons in the pre central gyrus form
Somatosensory cortex
discriminative touch, conscious proprioception
agnosia
inability to recognize objects when using a specific sense
astereognosis
inability to identify objects using touch and manipulation despite intact discriminative touch and conscious proprioceptive pathways.
visual agnosia
inability to visually recognize an object despite an intact visual system
Brocas area
expressive aphasia, inability to express oneself using language. writing is impaired. aware of language difficulties.
Wernickes area
receptive aphasia, inability to comprehend language. person cannot read or write. unaware of their disorder.
Damage to prefrontal association cortex
apathetic and lacks goal directed behavior, difficulty with executive functioning, lacks initiative, divergent thinking is impaired
thalamus
process emotional and memory information, regulate consciousness and arousal and attention, relay sensory information from the skin muscles tendons and joints.
hypothalamus
maintains homeostasis, endocrine regulation, emotional expression, eating, reproduction, defensive behavior,
corpus callosum
exaggerated in musicians, axons linking homologous areas of right and left cerebral hemispheres
Internal capsule
composed of axons of neurons located in subcortical structures that send information to the cerebral cortex.
types of memory
emotional-remembering feelings(amygdala)
declarative-remembering facts, events, concepts, locations(frontal lobes, hippocampus, thalamus)
procedural-remembering how to
retrograde amnesia
loss of memory for events prior to brain trauma
severe retrograde amnesia
loss of all declarative memories prior to the trauma
less severe retrograde amnesia
loss of declarative memories in the weeks preceding the trauma
Anterograde amnesia
inability to form new memories after trauma to the brain
HM
severe epilepsy, seizures in the medial temporal lobes, remove the temporal lobes bilaterally, epilepsy improved but memory was permanently damaged. Intelligence and personality didn't change. Partial retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. He could learn new skills but not remember practicing them.