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12 Cards in this Set
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Parietal Lobe
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Somatosensory COrtex
governs pressure, temp, pain, gustsation |
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Gerstman Syndrome
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damange to left parietal lobe
finger agnosia, right-left confusion, agraphia, acalculia |
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Damange to Parietal Lobe
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difficulty with spatial orientation, apraxia, somatosensory agonsia
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Temporal Lobe
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Auditory Cortex
Wernicke's Area - deficits in language comprehension some areas mediate encoding, retrieval, and storage of long term memories |
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Occipital Love
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Visual Cortex
simultanagnosia - inability to see more than one object at a time prosopagnosia - inability to recognize familiar faces |
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Left Hemisphere Functions
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written and spoken language
logical analytical thinking |
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Right Hemisphere
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spatial relationships
creativity factial recognition |
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ACh
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in PNS, released into neuromuscular jxn and causes muscles to contract
in CNS, involved in REM sleep, regulation of sleep-wake cycle Alzheimer's - degneneration of Ach cells Types: (1) nicotinic (excitatory) and (2) muscarinic (inhibitory) |
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Catecholemines
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NOR, DA, EP
low levesl of NOR and DA = dep high levels of DA = schiz, tourette's Parkinson's - degeneration of DA at substantia nigra high DA in mesolimbic system = reinforcing effects of drugs |
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Serotonin
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inhibitory
mood, hunger, thirst, sexual arousal, sleep, aggression, migraine headaches elevations = schz, autism low levels = dep, suicide, PTSD, OCD, aggression |
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Glu
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excitatory
learning, memory, long-term potentiation excessive activity = seizures, stroke-related brain damage, HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE, ALZ, and other neurodegenerative d/o |
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GABA
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Inhibitory
sleep, eating, seizure, anxiety d/o affected by benzos (tx anx) degeneration of cells in basal ganglia contributes to HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE |
