Brain Flashcards
Damage to the supramarginal gyrus can cause what?
Conduction aphasia and agraphia
Damage to the angular gyrus can cause what?
Transcortical sensory aphasia
Writing, reading, and naming difficulties
What two specific areas of the parietal lobe are important to speech and language?
Supramarginal gyrus
Angular gyrus
Consequences of front love impairment
Loss of simple movement
Loss of ability to spontaneously interact
Loss of flexible thinking and problem solving
Perseveration
Inability to focus on task
Mood changes
Changes in personality and social behavior
Inability to speak (apraxia and aphasia)
Inability take sequence complex movements
Prefrontal region of the cortex is involved in…
Planning and initiating
Concentration
Emotional responses
Disinhibition of behaviors
Consequences of the temporal lobe
Prosopagnosia- difficulty recognizing faces
Difficulty understanding spoken word
Poor selective attention for verbal and visual information
Short term memory loss
Interference with long term memory
Increased or decreased sexual behavior
Inability to categorize
Logorrhea- persistent talking
Increased aggressive behavior
Consequences of parietal lobe
Alexia- problems with reading
Agraphia- difficulty wiring words
Word blindness- inability to recognize words
Hand eye coordination
Unilateral neglect
Consequences of occipital lobe
Visual field cuts
Difficulty locating objects
Difficulty identifying colors
Consequences of cerebellum
Ataxia- lack of coordination; during ambulation there is an abnormal gait
Clumsiness
Dysarthria (ataxic dysarthria- drunk speech)
Unable to do DDK
Damage to the brain stem causes…
Death
Where do nerves decasate?
Medulla
The MCA supplies to what?
Lateral cortex
Outer brain surface
Internal capsules
Basal ganglia
