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