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What are the functions of the left cerebral hemisphere?
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spoken language, writing, reading, calculation, verbal memory, intellectual, rational, and analytical thinking, visual verbal processing, and processing of verbal auditory information.
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What are the functions of the right cerebral hemisphere?
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Non-verbal info, shapes, spatial orientation, musical and artistic skill, prosody, visual memory, emotional and intuitive thinking, and gestalt.
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What are the symptoms of corpus callosum section?
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competitive movements between hands, left arm apraxia, repetitive reaching or groping with left hand (behaving in foreign manner)
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Specific disorders of the frontal lobe
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broca's aphasia, dysarthria, agraphia, abulia.
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What are dysfunctions of the right parietal lobe?
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Astereognosis, anosognosia, autopagnosia, and unilateral neglect.
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What are dysfunctions of the left parietal lobe?
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Visual agnosia, apraxia, Gerstmann's syndrome (left supramarginal and angular gyri)
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What is Pick's dementia?
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Hereditary dementia with fast onset and progression. Less common than Alzheimer's and quickly leads to death.
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What is Alzheimer's dementia?
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Hereditary dementia, slow onset and progression. Begins with short-tem anterograde and then to long-term retrograde memory loss.
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What are the 4 stages of memory?
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Register, consolidate, store, and retrieve
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