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24 Frontal Lobe Flashcards

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1
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What two sections does the central sulcus separate?

A

Primary Motor Cortex and Primary Somatosensory Cortex

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2
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Areas ___ and ____ make up the orbital sulcus.

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11 and 47

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3
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The cingulum wraps around the _______ _________.

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Corpus Callosum

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4
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Which area does the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus not connect with? 7, 8, 9, 10 and 44

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no connection to 10

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5
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True/False: The arcuate fasciculus connects a bit to the occipital lobe.

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True

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Which broadman’s area does the arcuate fasciculus connect to?

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44 and 45

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True/False: The inferior fronto-occipital controls involuntary ocular movement.

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False; VOLUNTARY ocular movement

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True/False: Abulic syndromes will cause a change to the person’s IQ.

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False; It will not cause a change to the person’s IQ.

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9
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A person with an abulic syndrome will have trouble answering _________ questions. A. divergent B. convergent

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divergent

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10
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Automatic motor behavior is most related to what syndrome? A. Behavioral SyndromeB. Abulic SyndromeC. Cognitive Syndrome

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Behavioral Syndrome

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A person with a behavioral syndrome has damage to what part of the brain?

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orbital frontal cortex

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True/False: A person who has suffered from frontal lobe damage will not have difficulty with the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task.

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False: They will have difficulty in adjusting to a different type of organization when the tester switches the criteria of sorting.

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True/False: The Stroop Test is a parietal lobe function test.

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False: It is a frontal lobe functional test.

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True/False: A person with Broca’s aphasia will have trouble understanding phrases with unusual structures.

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True

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15
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The unicinate fasciculous branches from the temporal lobe to the ______ and ______.

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pre-frontal cortex, orbital cortex

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16
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True/False: The frontal aslant tract is for motor control of the body.

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False, it’s for language

17
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True/False: Damage in the brodmann’s area 4 and 6 will cause contralateral deficit in the motor control system.

A

True

18
Q

Damage in the brodmann’s area 6 and 8 will cause ______.

A

Apraxia

19
Q

True/False: Anarchic hand syndrome is not commonly found in split brain patients.

A

False, it’s common

20
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What happens if there’s lesion in the pre-frontal cortex?

A

disruptions in the cognitive functions, memories, motor sequencing impaired. Planning and goal directing behavioral are also impaired

21
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True/False: Damage to the left hemisphere will damage prosody.

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False, it’s the right hemisphere

22
Q

The primary motor cortex has ____% of its fibers running down the spinal tract.

A

50

23
Q

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?

A

Risk Assesement

24
Q

What underlines VM patients’ inability to asses risk?

A

Impaired Learning from Experience

25
Q

What are the neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with frontal lobe damage?

A

Schizophrenia, Autism and Stuttering

26
Q

What are the main structures that are compromised in the neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with frontal lobe damage

A

Myelinated Tracts (that lead to the associated areas)

27
Q

Fractional Anisotropy (FA) provides an index for the assessment of the integrity of the myelinated tracts. True or False.

A

True

28
Q

Association areas relevant to vision are predominantly in which hemisphere of the brain?

A

Right

29
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Association areas relevant to audition are predominantly in which hemisphere

A

Left

30
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Temporal discrimination and proverbs are predominantly processed in which hemispheres

A

Both Left and Right

31
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Typically, Frontal lobe damage patients could still maintain high neural function in memory, sensory and sensory integration. True or False

A

True

32
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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

A

Executive Decision Making

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