Brain and Neuropsychology- understand the impacact of neurological damage on cognitions and bahaviour

Question 1

What is visual agnosia?

Answer 1

An inability to recognise things can be seen

Question 2

What is prosopagnosia?

Answer 2

Face blindness caused by damage to the fusiform ( name of a brain area) face area

Question 3

What are the symptoms of visual agnosia?

Answer 3

• Patients might not be able to recognise the colour of an object
• Patients might not be able to recognise objects and name them
• Patients might not be able to recognise places they are familiar with

Question 4

What are the symptoms of prosopagnosia?

Answer 4

• Find it difficult to identify people from their faces
• Some people find that they see all faces as ‘ the same’ and cannot tell faces apart
• Some find that they cannot recognise the faces of people that they know really well
• While other people have more trouble with matching up pictures of faces that they do not know

Question 5

What are the impact of damage to the prefrontal cortex?

Answer 5

• Helps us to control our impulses
• Part of the brain that will stop you from doing something like hitting someone when you are angry
• It is also the part of the brain that helps us to keep our emotion we are feeling
• If this part of the brain is damaged, people can become impulsive and aggressive
  Damage to the prefrontal cortex
• Make it difficult for people to control their emotions
• So their personality may seem to change quite a lot
• Some people this type of damage can mean they are more likely to commit crimes that they would not have done before