Brain Lesions

Question 1

Where is the lesion?

sensory inattention
apraxias
astereognosis (tactile agnosia)
inferior homonymous quadrantanopia
Gerstmann’s syndrome (lesion of dominant parietal): alexia, acalculia, finger agnosia and right-left disorientation

Answer 1

Parietal Lobe

Question 2

Where is the lesion?

homonymous hemianopia (with macula sparing)
cortical blindness
visual agnosia

Answer 2

Occipital Lobe

Question 3

Where is the lesion?

Wernicke’s aphasia
superior homonymous quadrantanopia
auditory agnosia
prosopagnosia (difficulty recognising faces)

Answer 3

Temporal Lobe

Question 4

Where is the lesion?

Broca’s aphasia
disinhibition
perseveration
anosmia
inability to generate a list

Answer 4

Frontal Lobe

Question 5

Where is the lesion?

midline lesions: gait and truncal ataxia
hemisphere lesions: intention tremor, past pointing, dysdiadokinesis, nystagmus

Answer 5

Cerebellum

Question 6

Condition associated with Medial thalamus and mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus

Answer 6

Wernicke and Korsakoff syndrome

Question 7

Condition associated with Subthalamic nucleus of the basal ganglia

Answer 7

Hemiballism

Question 8

Condition associated with
Striatum (caudate nucleus) of the basal ganglia

Answer 8

Huntington chorea

Question 9

Condition associated with Substantia nigra of the basal ganglia

Answer 9

Parkinson’s disease

Question 10

Condition associated with the amygdala

Answer 10

Kluver-Bucy syndrome

hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperphagia, visual agnosia