Chapter 14: The Parietal Lobes Flashcards
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cIPS
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- intraparietal sulcus
- controls saccadic eye movements and grasping
2
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LIP
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- for saccading eye movement
3
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AIP
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- for grasping
4
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PRR
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- parietal reach regions
5
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secondary somatosensory cortex
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- tactile recogntion
6
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parieto-medial temporal pathway
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- to hippocampus
- spatial navigation
7
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anterior parietal lobe
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- somatosensory processing
8
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posterior parietal lobe
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- spatial processing
9
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medial parietal region
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- specific movement for specific function
10
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posterior parietal lesion
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- left right confusion
11
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posterior parietal lesion
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- no mental manipulation
- getting lost
12
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postcentral gyrus damage
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- change in somatosensory threshold
- possibly afferent paresis
13
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asterognosis
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- no recognition by touch
14
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asomatognosia
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- no sense of body
15
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anosagnosia
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- no sense of illness
16
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anosodiaphoria
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- indifference to illness
17
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autopagnosia
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- no body part names
18
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asymbolia for pain
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- no normal reactions to pain
19
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Balint’s syndrome
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- no eye fixation
- simultagnosia
- optic ataxia
- superior parietal damage
20
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optic ataxia
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- failure of visual guidance
- superior parietal lesion
21
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contralateral neglect
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- RH intraparietal sulcus and RH angular gyrus damage
22
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allesthesia
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- recoery from neglect
- recognition but on false side
23
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morphosynthesis
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- integration from sensatio into perception
24
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Gerstmann syndrome
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- finger agnosia
- right-left confusion
- agraphia
- acalculia
