13.8- Integrative functions and higher order brain functions

Question 1

What are higher order brain functions?

Answer 1

Learning, memory, and reasoning.

Question 2

Epilepsy

Answer 2

When a person experiences repeated seizures over time

Question 3

When are alpha and beta waves present on an EEG?

Answer 3

Shen a patient is awake and alert

Question 4

When are theta and delta waves are usually in an EEG when?

Answer 4

Present during sleep

Question 5

What percent of sleep time is open in non-REM?

Answer 5

75%

Question 6

How much non-REM sleep is required prior to first REM cycle of 10 minutes?

Answer 6

90 minutes of non-REM sleep.

Question 7

Cognition

Answer 7

Awareness, knowledge, memory, perception

Question 8

Agnosia

Answer 8

Inability to recognize or understand various stimuli.

Question 9

Encoding

Answer 9

Converting short term memory to long term memory.

This uses the hippocampus and the amygdaloid body.

Question 10

What can happened if the hippocampus or amygdaloid body are damaged?

Answer 10

We can experience deadened or elevated emotional states.

Question 11

Wernicke’s area

Answer 11

Essential of decoding spoken and written language.

Located in the angular gyrus.

Question 12

Cortical regions opposite the Wernicke’s area does what?

Answer 12

Recognizes the emotional content of speech.

Question 13

Apsodia

Answer 13

Dull emotionless speech

Question 14

Apraxia

Answer 14

Motor function disorder of speech

Question 15

Aphasia

Answer 15

Difficulty understanding speech or writing. May be unable to produce comprehensible sounds.