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29 Cards in this Set
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Who is Emily D.?
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Auditory, tonal agnosia, president's speech. Damage to right temporal lobe. Computer games could help.
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Who is Dr. P?
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Visual agnosia, musician, prosopagnosia
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Who is Jimmie G.?
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Lost mariner, Korsakov's syndrome, global amnesia. caused by alcoholism, damage to mamillary bodies
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Who is Christina?
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Disembodied lady, computer programmer, loss of proprioception, severe sensory neuronopathies.
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Who is Madeleine J.?
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Cerebral palsy, impaired vision, developmental agnosia helped to use hands by making her eat food by herself and forcing her to use them.
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Who is Mr Macgregor?
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Parkinson's, it was cured by spectacles that helped him notice when he was tilting
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Who is Mrs. S.?
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stroke, damage to right cerebral hemisphere so she can't feel her left, lost the idea of left. video cameras show promise and computer games. also called hemi-inattention or left hemi-field extinction
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Who is Emily D.?
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Tonal agnosia, could not tell tone in voices
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Who was Ray?
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Tourettes, doesn't like haldol because it makes him feel like he's not himself
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Who is Natasha K.?
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90 years old, neurosyphilis, frisky, determined by measuring spinal fluid. chooses to stay energetic rather than be treated
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Who is Mr Thompson?
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severe Korsakov's and severe anterograde amnesia, confabulates identities, creates fictional characters
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Who is Mrs. B.?
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former chemist, cerebral tumor in both frontal lobes, indifference to everything, closest diagnosis is schizophrenia
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Who is Mrs. O'C?
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Music won't stop playing in her head. Musical reminiscence. partial deafness
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Who is Natasha K.?
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90 years old, neurosyphilis, frisky, determined by measuring spinal fluid. chooses to stay energetic rather than be treated
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Who is Mr Thompson?
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severe Korsakov's and severe anterograde amnesia, confabulates identities, creates fictional characters
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Who is Mrs. B.?
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former chemist, cerebral tumor in both frontal lobes, indifference to everything, closest diagnosis is schizophrenia
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Who is Mrs. O'C?
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Music won't stop playing in her head. Musical reminiscence. partial deafness
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What does L-dopa do?
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brings back dormant memories, nostalgia, used to treat a 63 year old parkinson's patient
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Who is Bhagawandi?
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19 year old indian girl, malignant brain tumor, temporal lobe seizures, when she was given steroids and the tumor progressed she began to feel like she was back in India when she would have seizures, she was very calm though.
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Who is Stephen D.?
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High on cocaine, PCP, mostly amphetamines, dreamt he was a dog and woke up with amazing sense of smell Olfactory senses heightened. Olfactory tract is easily injured with head injuries
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Who was Donald?
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Killed his girl while on PCP, didn't remember until bilateral subdural hematomas and contusion of both frontal lobes in a bike accident triggered the memory over and over again. He didn't have the known impulsiveness or disinhibition that most frontal lobe injuries cause, only the memory.
After the accident he had seizures and epilepsy |
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in frontal lobe damage, what is characteristic of behavior of patients?
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no inhibitions, impulsiveness,
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What happens in Visions of hildegard?
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a woman has illusions of her earliest childhood, mysticism, and spiritualism. She can imagine and create the city of god and other pictures.
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Who is Rebecca?
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Retarded and has many mental defects, but has a passion for theatre and is able to act well
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Who is Martin A?
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Parkinsons, retardation, seizures, impulsiveness caused by meningitis. Amazing musical intelligence and can memorize easily pieces
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What could Harriet G. do?
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compose in any style, memorized 3 pages of a telephone directory
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Who are John and Michael?
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twins, really good at knowing what day it is at any date on the calendar. Also can list prime numbers with ease
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Who is Jose?
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Autism, severe temporal lobe disorder, good at drawing. epileptic seizures.
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Who is Nadia?
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Autistic naturally gifted artist.
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