Brain regions and function 1

Question 1

Function of frontal lobe?

Answer 1

Voluntary movement contralateral side

Question 2

Function Brocas area?

Answer 2

Speech and writing

Question 3

What area responsible though, reasoning, memory?

Answer 3

Brodmann areas 44 and 45

Question 4

What can damage to Brodmann areas lead to?

Answer 4

Aphasias

Question 5

Function parietal lobe?

Answer 5

Recieve and interpret sensations
Pain, touch, pressure and proprioception

Question 6

Function temporal lobe?

Answer 6

Memory and emotion
Wernickes area- understand language

Question 7

Where is brocas area located?

Answer 7

Frontal lobe

Question 8

Where is wernickes area located?

Answer 8

Temporal lobe

Question 9

Function of wernicks area?

Answer 9

Understand language

Question 10

What does damage to wernickes area cause?

Answer 10

Difficulty understanding written and spoken language
Speech fluid but contain unnecessary words

Question 11

What does damage to brocas area cause?

Answer 11

Broca’s aphasia
Difficulty forming words and producing speech
Don’t struggle with comprehension

Question 12

Patient speaks fluently but can’t understand spoken language? What damaged?

Answer 12

Wernickes damage
Temporal lobe damage

Question 13

Patient difficulty forming words and producing speech but do not struggle with comprehension? Prognosis

Answer 13

Brocas damage
Frontal lobe damage

Question 14

Function occipital lobe?

Answer 14

Understand visual images

Question 15

Function thalamus

Answer 15

Sensation relay through (except olf)

Question 16

Where is pain percieved?

Answer 16

Insula

Question 17

What is function of cingulate gyrus?
Where located?

Answer 17

Emotional response to pain
Medial aspect of the cerebral hemispheres

Question 18

Function Periaqueductal Grey?

Answer 18

Recieve input somatosensory cortex
Descending pathway
High conc opioid receptors
Substance P- reduce pain

Question 19

Where is high presence opioid receptors?

Answer 19

Periaqueductal Grey

Question 20

How do opiods work? Examples?

Answer 20

Morphine, codeine, oxycodone
Activate opioid receptors
Substance P released- reduced pain sensations

Question 20

How do opiods work? Examples?

Answer 20

Morphine, codeine, oxycodone
Activate opioid receptors
Substance P released- reduced pain sensations

Question 21

Where is primary motor cortex located?

Answer 21

Pre-central gyrus of the frontal lobe

Question 22

What controls controlled movement?

Answer 22

Primary motor cortex
Frontal lobe

Question 23

Is controlled movement contra or ipsilateral?

Answer 23

Contralateral

Question 24

Where is primary somatic sensory cortex located?

Answer 24

Postcentral gyrus

Question 25

What are and where are basal ganglia located?

Answer 25

Group nuclei
Cerebral hemisphere

Question 26

Label

Answer 26

Question 27

Are basal ganglia inhib or excit?

Answer 27

Inhib

Question 28

Function of basal ganglia? (4)

Answer 28

Connects inputs of the brain
Facilitates purposeful behaviour and movement
Inhibits unwanted movement
Controls posture and movement

Question 29

What are 2 disorders of basal ganglia?

Answer 29

Parkinsons- lack dopamine
Huntingtons- excess dopamine

Question 30

What is caused by lack of dopamine?

Answer 30

Parkinsons

Question 31

What is caused by excess dopamine?

Answer 31

Huntingtons

Question 32

Name 2 psychiatric disorders?

Answer 32

OCD
ADHD

Question 33

What causes Parkinson’s disease?
Symptoms?
Treatment?

Answer 33

Loss dopamine in substantia nigra
Spasticity, tremor
Treat- L-dopa- converted into dopamine by serotonin