cortical localization

Question 1

hyperdense signal is typical for

Answer 1

bleeding

Question 2

most common bleed not caused by trauma

Answer 2

hypertension

Question 3

Hypertonic, preserved bulk, weakness, brisk reflexes, babinski/myoclonus

Answer 3

UMN signs

Question 4

Hypotonic, muscle wasting, weakness, depressed reflexes, fasciculations

Answer 4

LMN signs

Question 5

if there is a visual field deficit in one eye only?

Answer 5

problem anterior to the optic chiasm

Question 6

if there is the same partial visual field deficit in both eyes?

Answer 6

lesion posterior to the chiasm

Question 7

Transcortical Motor Aphasia

Answer 7

Broca’s aphasia with the preserved ability to speak with repetition

Question 8

Transcortical Sensory Aphasia

Answer 8

wernicke’s aphasia with lack of comprehension but able to repeat

Question 9

Global Aphasia

Answer 9

wide are was affected, maybe a vessel is the cause

Question 10

Conduction Aphasia

Answer 10

inability to repeat

Question 11

Propasognosia

Answer 11

Inability to identify faces

Question 12

Split brain syndrome

Answer 12

Disconnect between both sides of the brain

Question 13

What side of the brain?

Emotional
Mathematical
The “big picture”
Non verbal
Procedural memory
Perceiving

Answer 13

Right brain

Question 14

What side of the brain?

Verbal
Arithmetical
Perceives details
Declarative memory
Confabulatory

Answer 14

Left brain

Question 15

seizure that caused loss of consciousness?

Answer 15

both hemispheres affected

Question 16

inability to perceive the visual field as a whole

Answer 16

simultanagnosia

Question 17

difficulties fixating the eyes

Answer 17

oculomotor ataxia

Question 18

inability to move the hand to a specific object using vision

Answer 18

optic ataxia

Question 19

balint’s syndrome

Answer 19

bilateral parietal lesions

Question 20

what happens in balint’s syndrome

Answer 20

patients fail to apprehend all but one of simultaneously presented objects at he same location

condition is object based not location based

example multicolored dots are properly seen if they are connected by lines

Question 21

Grestmann syndrome

Answer 21

• inability to write or calculate
• inability to recognize fingers
• right-left confusion

Question 22

anosagnosia

Answer 22

denial of deficits

Question 23

non-dominant parietal signs

Answer 23

Denial of deficits (anosagnosia)

Visual, tactile and auditory extinction

Spatial disorganization

Neglect of left space

Question 24

3 frontal flavor injuries

Answer 24

1. anterior- aggressive
2. posterior/medial/inside (singula gyrus)- apathetic
3. dorsal/lateral- cannot make decisions or figure out things

Question 25

paratonia

Answer 25

grab hand tight and tell patient to let go but they dont when you try to pull away

Question 26

luria test

Answer 26

sustained attention and learning abilities

Question 27

pruning

Answer 27

cutting out the neurons we do not need

Question 28

anton syndrome

Answer 28

occipital damage where patients are adamant that they can see but all test show they are blind