Neuro

Front 1

What is agnosia?

Damage to what area leads to this?

Back 1

When pt cannot recognize what they see

Visual association area or multimodal temporal association area

Front 2

Damage to what area leads to agraphesthesia and astereognosis?

Back 2

Somatosensory association areas

Front 3

Damage to parietal multimodal association area leads to what?

Back 3

Deficits in attention -- neglect

Front 4

Mental Status Exam focuses on what areas of the cortex?

Back 4

Multimodal association areas

Front 5

Deficits in working memory or cognition can result from damage to which area?

Back 5

Dorsolateral prefrontal multimodal association area

Front 6

Contralateral neglect syndrome happens when there is a lesion where?

Back 6

Non-dominant (right, usually) hemisphere, parietal association area (above and behind ears)

Front 7

Someone with a dramatic change in affect or personality may have a lesion in which multimodal association area?

Back 7

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Front 8

What is the arcuate fasciculus?

Back 8

Fiber tract that connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas

Front 9

What is prosody?

What areas of the brain control this?

Back 9

Emotional content of language and inflections

Non-dominant hemisphere homolog to Broca's and Wernicke's areas (usually R hemisphere)

Front 10

What is aphasia?

Damage to what areas produce this?

Back 10

Disorder of language use

Broca's or Wernicke's areas in dominant hemisphere (left, usually)

Front 11

What is dysarthria?

Damage to what areas produces this?

Back 11

Disorder of speech articulation

Damage to outgoing pathway after corticocortical processing

Front 12

What is conduction aphasia?

Damage to what leads to this?

Back 12

Misuse of words

Arcuate fasciculus (tract that connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas)

Front 13

What is aprosodia?

Damage to what leads to this?

Back 13

Inability to put or understand inflections into words

Areas in non-dominant hemisphere corresponding to Broca's or Wernicke's areas

Front 14

Damage to angular gyrus would lead to what?

Back 14

Alexia without agraphia (can write but not read what you wrote)

Front 15

Occlusion of what leads to contralateral movement and somatosensory deficits in the leg?

Back 15

ACA

Front 16

What three arteries off the internal carotid supply the internal capsule?

Back 16

Anterior choroidal ((supplies inferior internal capsule))
Medial striate off of ACA ((anterior limb of internal capsule, caudate head))
Lenticulostriate aa. off the MCA ((basal ganglia, posterior limb internal capsule))
PCA ((diencephalon, splenium of corpus callosum))

Front 17

What artery is the most common site of circle of Willis aneurysms and can lead to visual-field deficits?

Back 17

Anterior communicating artery (off off ACA off of internal carotid)

Front 18

CNIII palsy is caused by aneurysm of which artery (hint: part of the circle of Willis)?

Back 18

Posterior communicating artery off of the internal carotid