BG & LS Flashcards
Function of basal ganglia
Gives advice to areas that control attention, language planning, and other cognitive functions
Hyperkinesis
Disinhibition of movement
Damage to indirect path of corticospinal motor systems
Hypokinesis
Inhibition of movement
Damage to direct path of corticospinal motor systems
Parkinson’s disease
Tremors, imbalance and later rigidity
Tourette’s syndrome
Tics (head, neck, vocal)
Huntingtons Chorea
Dancing movements of head, neck, arms
Progresses to dementia and psychosis
Cerebral Palsy
Caused by prenatal trauma and genetic component
Spastic and writhing movements, poor balance
Parts of limbic system
Hippocampus Amygdala Olfactory bulb Hypothalamus Septum
Functions of limbic system
Memory, motivation, emotion, drives, aggression
Types of limbic system memories
Episodic, declarative, explicit, context-dependent, autobiographical
Entorhinal cortex
Gateway in and out of hippocampus
Septum
Induces hippocampal theta encoding
Amygdala
Emotional learning
Parts of basal ganglia
Caudate, putamen and globus pallidus
