Cognition, Consciousness, Attention, Communication Flashcards

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Cognition

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-ability to turn external timulation to internal motivation
-identify stimui and respond

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Association Corticies Inputs

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-projections from primary and secondary sensory and motor, thalamus, BS

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Association Corticies Outputs

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-hippocampus, BG, cerebellum, thalamus

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Temporoparietal Association Cortex

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-cognitive intelligence

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Dorsolateral Prefrontal Areas

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-self awareness
-executive function
-goal setting
-plans

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Medial Dorsal Prefrontal Areas

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-perceives other’s emotion making assumptions
-medial and superior

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Ventral Pefrontal Cortex

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-connects mood and affects
-medial and inferior

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Frontal Lobe Syndromes: Executive Dysfuntion and Loss of Willpower

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-Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex < Caudate < GP < Thalamus

-Difficulty planning, initiating, maintaing behavior

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Frontal Lobe Syndromes: Disinhibition, irritability, and Impulsiveness

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Orbital Cortex < Caudate < Substantia Nigra < Thalamus

-Social judgement, inappropriate behaviors

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Frontal Lobe Syndromes: Apathy

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Ventral Prefrontal Cortex < Ventra Striatum < Ventral Pallidum < Thalamus

-Apathetic and lack insight

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Frontal Lobe Syndromes: Paranoia, Delusions

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Medial Dorsal prefrontal Cortex < Ventral Striatum < Ventral Pallidum < Thalamus

-Undrstanding others emotions and beliefs and intentions

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Hemispheric Localization & Lateralization

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-reduce connection times
-R hand dominance and left
-lateralization occurs at 3-4

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Dominant Hemisphere

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-usually Left
-motor planning
-math: sequence, analytic calc
-Music: sequential, analytic skill
-Sense of direction: following directions

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Nondominant Hemiphere

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-usually R
-visual spatial analysis and attention
-Math: estimate quantities
-Music: untrained musicians, complex performance
-Sense of direction: navigating using spatial orientation/awareness

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Disconnection Syndromes

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-leisons to white matter disrupting connections between cortical areas

Ex: conduction aphasia, corpus callosotomy (split brain procedure for epilepsy)

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Consciousness System

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-medial and lateral frontoparietal association cortex and arousal circuits of upper brainstem and diencephalon

-AAA: alertness, attention, Awareness

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AAA

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Alertness: normal functioning of brainstem and diencephalic arousal circuits

Attention: functioning of brainstem and diencephalic arousal circuits and processing frontoparietal association cortex

Awareness: subjective experiences, combine higher order systems, poorly understood

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Reticular Formation

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-in tegmentum and runs through entire brainstem

Midbrain and Upper Pons: continuous with nuclei diencephalon rostrally, conscious state in forebrain

Pons and Medulla: conntinuous with intermediate zone SC caudally for motor, reflex and autonomic functions

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Reticular Acticating System

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-in upper brainstem-diencephalic junction where lesion can cause coma with multiple interconnected arousal systems acting in parallel to keepp consciousness

Coma from:
-lesion in rostral RF and related structures
-Massive damage damage tto B cerebral cortex
-Damage to B thalamus

-more caudal or ventrtal don’t cause coma

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Maintenance of Alertness

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-BS noreinephrine, serotonin, dopamine, ACH, RF w/ glutamate projections
-Posterior hypothalamic neurons
-Basal forebrain

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Attention

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-brain processes that allocate resources to what matters
-frontoparietal assoxiatiooon cortex
-anterior cingulate gyrus, amygdala, limbic structures

Sustained: viligance, concentration, non distractibility

Switching: change from one task to the other

Selective: able to focus on more than 1

Divided: by performind 2 or more tasks

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Dominant Side Language

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-Comprehension: wernicke’s, left side
-Motor Planning and production: Broca’s, left
-Angular Gyrus: connected to wernicke’s for comprehending spoken and written language

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Non-Dominant Side Language

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-Wernicke’s equivalent on R side: comprehends emotional or tone of voice and facial expressions

-Broca’s equivalent on R side: use of different tones and gestures of communication

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

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-can form words but do not make longical sense as a language

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Broca’s Aphasia

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-understands what they want to say but cannot find the words

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Logorrhea

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-excessive wordiness and repetiveness

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Verbal Perservation

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-repetittive spoken words

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Confabulation

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-patient generates a false memory without the intention of deceit

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Alexia/Dyslexia

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-rerading disorders

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Agraphia

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-inability to right

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Dysarthria

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-difficulty speaking because the muscles you use for speech are weak