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42 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Right cerebral hemisphere
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non-verbal info and memory (geometric, tonal patterns), spatial, awareness of extrapersonal space, music and art, prosody, visual memory, emotion and intuitive thinking, understadning scene
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Left cerebral hemisphere
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spoken language, writing, reading, calculation, verbral memory, thinking, visual verbal processing, verbal auditory
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Split brain syndrome
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(transection of corpus callosum); right hand doesn't know what left hand is doing; depending on what hand object in people may not be able to name
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Frontal lobe functions
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execution of general motor movements (precentral gyrus); planning programming sequencing of movements (premotor cortex); voluntary eye movements (frontal eye fields); motor speech (Broca's area); ideas, concepts, abstract though, memory, personaluty, emotion, intelelct
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Precentral gyrus
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execution of general motor movements
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Premotor cortex
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planning, programming, sequencing, of movements
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Frontal eye fields
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voluntary movements
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Broca's area
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motor speech
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Broca's aphasia
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broca's area dysfunction
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Dysarthria
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dysfunction of corticobulbar pathways
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Agraphia
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dysfunction of posterior frontal cortex excluding broca's is
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Abulia
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dysfunction of general ares w/in rostral fronal love
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Parietal Lobe Function
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somatosensory cortex; recogniton and coordination of tactile visual and audotiry input; motor planning; comprehension and interpretation of words tones loudness and word timing
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Somatosensory cortex
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coordination, integratino, and refinement of sensory input
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Right parietal lesions
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disturbances of space and body schema
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Left parteial lesions
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disturbances of reading writing and mathematics
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Gertmann's syndrome
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inability to tell right from left sides and to recoginze fingers or body parts
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Astereognosis
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dystfunctions of right hemisphere of parietal lobe
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Asognosia
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lack of awareness or denial of disease (right supramarginal gyrus)
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Autopagnosia
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impared recognition of body parts (right parietal lobe)
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Visual agnosia
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combined parieto-occipaital lesion and/or lesion of corpus callosum; not knowing something is there
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Apraxia
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(left parietal lobe)
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Unilateral neglect
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(right parietal lobe); happens on left side where people don’t recognize that left side of body exists
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Temporal lobe functions
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auditory, language comprehension, sound modulation, perception of music, memory, higher order visual and auditory tasks, emotion, motivation, personailty
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Superior temporal gyrus
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auditory reception
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Wernicke's are and right superior temporal gyrus
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language comprehension, sound modualtion, perception of music; damage here they say random words and think they said coherent words
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Hippocampus and Amygdala
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memory, higher order visual and auditory tasks, emotion, motivation, and personality
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Bilateral lesions on auditory areas temporal lobe
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deafness
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Right hemisphere of temporal lobe dysfunction
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lack of music ability and appreciation diminished
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Anomia
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can't remember names of stuff; supramarginal gyrus affected in temproal lobe
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Kluver-Bucy
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bilateral obliteration of amygdala; results in oral exploratory behavior, tactile exploratory behavior, hypersexuality
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Temproal lobe seizures
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aggressive behavior, hypersexuality, hyerreligiousity, abnormal need to write and investigate
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Occipital Lobe function
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visual recpeion, bringing in info into gestalt
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Anton's syndrome
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Cortical blindness; bilateral occipital loss which may result in confabulation
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Bilateral lesions of perieto-occipital association areas
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loss of hand-eye coordination or total visual agnosia
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agnosia
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inabilty to be aware of an object using a giv en sense even though this sense in functionally intact
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Tactile agnosia
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inability to recognize object by touch alone; disturbance of body image, lack of recognition of individual fingers, confusion of left and right sides fo body (lesion supramarginal gyrus)
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Auditory agnosia
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inability to recognize sounds, music or words from lesion in posterior part of superior temporal gyrus
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Dimentia
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loss of interllectual functions, memory, learning, reasoning, problem solving and abstract thinking; similar symptoms can be shown by hyperthyroidism, cushing disease, nutrional, AIDS, drug interactions
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Picks dimentia
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less common than alzheimers, go to one stimulus and stay on it; heredity; fast onset and progression
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Stages of memory
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(1) register (diencephalon) (2) consolidate (basal forebrain) (3) store (hippocampus/amagydala) (4) retreive (basal ganglia)
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What is long term retrograde memory
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frontal lobe; specifically cingualte gyrus
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