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13 Cards in this Set
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Pre-frontal functions |
4Ts Tact, tenacity, thinking, tension
Personality, executive functioning, working memory |
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Prefrontal blood supply |
ACAs. Loose LEs. Incontinence. |
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Orbital frontal functions |
Decision making, emotional regulation (limbic system), reward expectation |
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Frontal functions |
Olfaction, gait, voluntary movement, eye movement, fluent speech (Brock's area; expressive: dominant hemisphere) |
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Abnormal findings in frontal cerebral cortex injury |
Inattention, difficulty thinking, memory problems, magnetic shuffling gait, incontinence with lack of concern, and abnormal reflexes: primitive reflexes; suck, snort, Root Hoffman's reflex (normal in infants, will see in a comatose patient with a frontal injury) |
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Coticospinal fibers |
Originate in motor cortex. Go to pyramids of medulla. Descend in lateral column of spinal cord. |
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Coticospinal fibers |
Originate in motor cortex. Go to pyramids of medulla. Descend in lateral column of spinal cord. |
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Abnormal findings corticospinal fibers (UMN lesions) |
Weakness, spasticity (Increased tone, hyperreflexia), Babinski reflex, Hoffman signs (scratch hand, lip will twitch), posturing |
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Parietal lobe functions |
*** primary sensory cortex
Association areas for body orientation, vision and language, touch recognition, pain, temperature, proprioception, vibratory sense, calculation |
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Abnormal findings of R parietal lobe injury |
Anosognosia |
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Abnormal findings of R parietal lobe injury |
Anosognosia |
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Abnormal findings of L parietal lobe injury |
Agnosia, apraxia, neglect, extinction, dyscalculia, loss of proprioception, astereognosis, agraphesthesia |
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Temporal lobe function |
Interpretation of sounds/speech (dominant lobe), integration of taste and smell, memory (medial temporal lobe, hippocampus and diencephalon), emotions, visual perception (form, color, face, and letters) |
