Cortical lesions {3]

Question 1

Frontal lobe fxn

Answer 1

1. Comportment (behavior)
2. Executive fxn
3. Language fluency (Left)
4. Motor prosody (emotional sounds)
5. Motivation

Question 2

Temporal lobe fxn

Answer 2

SMLE

Sensory prosody
Memory
Emotion
Language comprehension

Question 3

Parietal lobe

Answer 3

Tactile sensation
Visuospatial Fxn

(school stuff)

• attention (R hemis)
• reading
• writing
• calculations

Question 4

Occipital lobe fxn

Answer 4

vision
visual perception
visual recognition

Question 5

Leading cause of disability in US

Answer 5

Stroke

Question 6

Broca’s area Lesion (brodman __) and lesion on R analogous side

Answer 6

BA 45

L hemis: aphagia

R hemis:
Motor aprosody
(inability to add emotion to speech)

Question 7

3 major frontal lobe syndromes

Answer 7

1. disinhibition
(orbitofrontal lesion)
2. Executive dysfxn
(dorsolateral prefrontal)
3. Apathy
(medial frontal lesions)

Question 8

Hemineglect: usually due to

Answer 8

R hemis parietal lobe lesion

Question 9

Occipitotemporal vs Occipitoparietal

• what, where
• dorsal or ventral

Answer 9

Occipitotemporal - ventral
-“what”

Occipitoparietal

• Dorsal
• “where”

Question 10

Visual agnosia
(failure to attach meaning to visual input)
Tell me where lesion occurs

• Object agnosia:
• Face agnosia/prosopagnosia
• Simultanagnosia

Answer 10

• Object agnosia:
  L occipitotemporal
• Face agnosia/prosopagnosia
  R occipitotemp
• Simultanagnosia
  both R and L

Question 11

Perseveration seen in which lesions?

Answer 11

Frontal lobe lesions

- gets stuck and cant get unstuck (continuation or recurrance of act, w/o appropriate stim)

Question 12

Hemineglect

Answer 12

neglect for sensory stimuli contralateral to side of cerebral lesion