Cerebral cortex and limbic system Flashcards

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What Brodmann area is the primary somatosensory cortex?

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What Brodmann area is the primary motor cortex?

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What Brodmann area is the premotor cortex?

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What Brodmann area is the superior parietal cortex?

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What Brodmann area is the primary visual cortex?

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What Brodmann area is the primary auditory cortex?

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What is the function of the superior parietal cortex?

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Integration of sensory input, e.g. stereognosis

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What is stereognosis?

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The ability to identify an object by touching it

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Injury to which area of the brain would cause a patient to be unable to recognise sounds, e.g. speech vs a door opening?

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Superior temporal gyrus

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Injury to the premotor cortex can result in what condition?

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Ideomotor apraxia - patient is unable to act out a movement

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Injury to the superior parietal cortex can result in what condition?

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Hemispatial neglect

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List 3 symptoms seen in hemispatial neglect.

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  1. Ignores contralateral body / world
  2. Walks into objects
  3. Contralateral astereognosis
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Which 2 areas of the brain deal with facial, shape, and colour recognition?

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Medial occipital and temporal lobes

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Injury to the medial occipital and temporal lobes can result in which 2 conditions?

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Cerebral Achromatopsia - can’t name / point to / match colours

Prosopagnosia - inability to recognize faces

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Describe the 2 types of visual agnosia.

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Associative visual agnosia - person can perceive the object but cannot recognize or name it

Apperceptive visual agnosia - patient cannot perceive the overall form of an object (may see separate parts, but cannot fit them together)

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Damage to Broca’s area is associated with which type of aphasia?

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Expressive aphasia

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Damage to Wernicke’s area is associated with which type of aphasia?

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Receptive aphasia

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Damage to which part of the brain can cause both alexia and agraphia (inability to read + write) together?

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Angular gyrus

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Conductive aphasia is caused by damage to what structure?

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Arcuate fasciculus

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The arcuate fasciculus connects which 2 structures?

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Wernicke’s area + Broca’s area

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In split-brain, a patient cannot name objects held in which hand / in which visual field?

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Which artery supplies the zone of aphasia (including Broca’s and Wernicke’s area) in the left hemisphere?

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Middle cerebral artery

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What is the blood supply to the area of the brain which controls the lower limb?

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Anterior cerebral artery

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What is the blood supply to the area of the brain which controls the hands and face?

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Middle cerebral artery

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What is the blood supply to the basal ganglia?
Striate and choroidal vessels
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The limbic system surrounds which secondary brain vesicle?
Diencephalon (thalamus + hypothalamus)
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Which 2 structures comprise the cortex of the limbic system?
Hippocampus + insula
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What are the 4 subcortical nuclei of the limbic system?
1. Amygdala 2. Accumbens 3. Septal 4. Hypothalamic
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Which process is the hippocampus involved in?
Memory formation and recall
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What is the location of the hippocampus?
Inferomedial temporal lobe
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Damage to the hippocampus can result in which condition?
Anterograde amnesia - no new memory formation (often able to recall long-term memories)
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What process are the mammillary bodies involved in?
Memory formation and recall
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What is the location of the mammillary bodies?
Inferior surface of hypothalamus
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Which vitamin deficiency can result in mammillary body damage?
Vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency, commonly seen secondary to chronic excess alcohol use
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Vitamin B1 deficiency which results in damage to the mammillary bodies is known as what condition?
Wernicke's encephalopathy
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What is the triad of symptoms in Wernicke's encephalopathy?
1. Ataxia 2. Confusion / dementia 3. Eye movement abnormalities
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Wernicke encephalopathy can lead to which other condition? What are the symptoms of this condition?
Korsakoff psychosis Anterograde and retrograde amnesia with confabulation hallucinations
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The amygdala is involved in which processes?
Emotions, control of emotional behaviour, and autonomic activity
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Which 2 nuclei of the limbic system are activated during sexual functions / orgasm, eating & anticipation of reward?
Septal nuclei Accumbens nucleus