24 Frontal Lobe Flashcards
What two sections does the central sulcus separate?
Primary Motor Cortex and Primary Somatosensory Cortex
Areas ___ and ____ make up the orbital sulcus.
11 and 47
The cingulum wraps around the _______ _________.
Corpus Callosum
Which area does the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus not connect with? 7, 8, 9, 10 and 44
no connection to 10
True/False: The arcuate fasciculus connects a bit to the occipital lobe.
True
Which broadman’s area does the arcuate fasciculus connect to?
44 and 45
True/False: The inferior fronto-occipital controls involuntary ocular movement.
False; VOLUNTARY ocular movement
True/False: Abulic syndromes will cause a change to the person’s IQ.
False; It will not cause a change to the person’s IQ.
A person with an abulic syndrome will have trouble answering _________ questions. A. divergent B. convergent
divergent
Automatic motor behavior is most related to what syndrome? A. Behavioral SyndromeB. Abulic SyndromeC. Cognitive Syndrome
Behavioral Syndrome
A person with a behavioral syndrome has damage to what part of the brain?
orbital frontal cortex
True/False: A person who has suffered from frontal lobe damage will not have difficulty with the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task.
False: They will have difficulty in adjusting to a different type of organization when the tester switches the criteria of sorting.
True/False: The Stroop Test is a parietal lobe function test.
False: It is a frontal lobe functional test.
True/False: A person with Broca’s aphasia will have trouble understanding phrases with unusual structures.
True
The unicinate fasciculous branches from the temporal lobe to the ______ and ______.
pre-frontal cortex, orbital cortex
True/False: The frontal aslant tract is for motor control of the body.
False, it’s for language
True/False: Damage in the brodmann’s area 4 and 6 will cause contralateral deficit in the motor control system.
True
Damage in the brodmann’s area 6 and 8 will cause ______.
Apraxia
True/False: Anarchic hand syndrome is not commonly found in split brain patients.
False, it’s common
What happens if there’s lesion in the pre-frontal cortex?
disruptions in the cognitive functions, memories, motor sequencing impaired. Planning and goal directing behavioral are also impaired
True/False: Damage to the left hemisphere will damage prosody.
False, it’s the right hemisphere
The primary motor cortex has ____% of its fibers running down the spinal tract.
50
The Gambling Task study by Bechara et. al. showed that patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VM) damage have impaired ability for what decision making parameter?
Risk Assesement
What underlines VM patients’ inability to asses risk?
Impaired Learning from Experience
What are the neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with frontal lobe damage?
Schizophrenia, Autism and Stuttering
What are the main structures that are compromised in the neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with frontal lobe damage
Myelinated Tracts (that lead to the associated areas)
Fractional Anisotropy (FA) provides an index for the assessment of the integrity of the myelinated tracts. True or False.
True
Association areas relevant to vision are predominantly in which hemisphere of the brain?
Right
Association areas relevant to audition are predominantly in which hemisphere
Left
Temporal discrimination and proverbs are predominantly processed in which hemispheres
Both Left and Right
Typically, Frontal lobe damage patients could still maintain high neural function in memory, sensory and sensory integration. True or False
True
What was mostly impacted by the frontal lobe damage due to hemorrhage in the patient from the video: Changes in the executive decision making or changes in personality
Executive Decision Making
