Brain Lesions Flashcards
Inferior homonymous quadrantonopia
Parietal lobe lesion
Sensory inattention, apraxia, tactile agnosia
Parietal lobe lesion
Homonymous hemianopia with macula sparing
Occipital lobe
Superior homonymous hemianopia
Temporal lobe lesion
Fluent speech with word subsitution, neologisms
Wernicke’s aphasia - temporal lobe
Difficulty recognising faces (prosopagnosia)
Temporal lobe lesion
Expressive dysphasia - non-fluent, laboured, halting
Broca’s aphasia - inferior frontal gyrus
Disinhibition, anosmia, inability to generate a list
Frontal lobe lesion
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
Medial thalamus and mammillary bodies of hypothalamus
Huntington chorea
Striatum (caudate nucleus) of basal ganglia
Parkinson’s
Substanstia nigra of basal ganglia
Hemiballism
Subthalamic nucleus of basal ganglia