Brain Function

Question 1

visual attention

Answer 1

parietal lobe

Question 2

integration of visual, somatic, and auditory information

Answer 2

temporal lobe functions

Question 3

inability to attend to task
inability to sequence complex tasks (ex. getting dressed)
Impaired judgment, decrease ability to problem solve

Answer 3

frontal lobe associated dysfunctions

Question 4

touch perception

Answer 4

Parietal lobe functions

Question 5

diplopia

Answer 5

occipital lobe dysfunction

Question 6

brain function

memory (for habits, and motor function)

Answer 6

Frontal lobe

Question 7

inability to perceive object normally
neglect or inattention to part of body or space
denial deficits

Answer 7

parietal lobe dysfunction

Question 8

judgment/problem solving

Answer 8

frontal lobe

Question 9

executive functions

Answer 9

frontal lobe

Question 10

When asked to draw the face of a clock, a 64-year-old woman crowds all the numbers onto the right-hand side of the clock with the numbers actually trailing off below the lower border of the clock. When asked to draw a face, she draws a profile of the right side of the face. The patient most likely has a lesion in what part of the brain?

Answer 10

The patient is having trouble with visual-spatial sensory tasks. She is neglecting the left side of space which indicates dysfunction of the right parietal lobe.

Question 11

agnosia: inability to recognize familiar object, words, colors, or movement of an object

Answer 11

occipital lobe dysfunction

Question 12

memory (storage, retrieval of words, experiences)

Answer 12

temporal lobe

Question 13

visual fields cuts

Answer 13

occipital lobe associated dysfunctions

Question 14

Answer 14

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Patients with Wernicke’s or receptive aphasia cannot understand what is said to them. Their speech may be fluent but devoid of meaning.

Question 15

concentration/reasoning

Answer 15

frontal lobe

Question 16

difficulty focusing visual attention or attention to more than one object

Answer 16

parietal lobe

Question 17

integration of different sensory input

Answer 17

parietal lobe

Question 18

vision, spatial organization
interpretation of visual information
visual reflexes

Answer 18

occipital lobe

Question 19

temporal lobe associated dysfunctions

Answer 19

• difficulty recognizing faces
• difficulty attending to input
• short term memory loss
• disturbance of long-term memory

Question 20

A patient has the sudden onset of inability to talk. He understands what is said to him but can only say “if only” and “oh no.” Where is the lesion?

Answer 20

A lesion in the dominant inferior frontal gyrus or Broca’s area would result in an expressive aphasia where comprehension is preserved but speech output is impaired. The resulting speech is nonfluent, telegraphic and often minimal.

Question 21

A patient can repeat a five-digit span forward and backward and is able to list five months backwards. He is unable to remember a list of four objects given to him five minutes previously. This type of memory problem would be found in a disease affecting which one of the following?

Answer 21

The patient’s problem is with recent memory or making new memories which is a temporal lobe function.