Fall 2014: Lecture 8: Week 6: Disorders Of Higher Cortical Function Flashcards
1
Q
- Primary Visual Cortex = ?
- Prestriate Cortex = ?
- Extrastriate Cortex = ?
- V5 is also called what?
A
- Striate Cortex = V1
- V2
- V3, V4, V5
- MT (Middle Temporal Area)
2
Q
Aphasia
- What is it?
- Nonfluent Aphasia
a. AKA?
b. What is it? - Fluent Aphasia
a. AKA?
b. What is it?
A
- Hard to understand or make language
- a. BROCA’s APHASIA
b. Can’t Produce Language - a. WERNICKE’s APHASIA
b. Auditory Comprehension is bad. (Fluent, easily articulated, but PARAPHASIC SPEECH)
3
Q
Alexia/Agraphia
- Alexia: Define
- Agraphia: Define
- What happens in ALEXIA without AGRAPHIA?
A
- Can’t Read
- Can’t Write
- Pt can still write, but CANNOT READ!
4
Q
Visual Object Agnosia
- What is it?
- Involves what pathway?
A
- Can’t recognize previously familiar OBJECTS!
a. Can’t recognize them by sight, but might be able to describe them or recognize them via a different sense. - VENTRAL “What” Pathway
5
Q
Prosopagnosia
- What is it?
a. They may have to rely on what kinds of cues?
b. Issues with it?
A
- Can’t recognize familiar faces or learn to recognize new faces
a. like glasses, hairstyle, gait, voice.
b. Can cause social embarrassment.
6
Q
Akinetopsia
- What is it?
a. Affects what area?
A
- Messes with MOTION PERCEPTION (smooth moving objects look stationary or seem to “JUMP” from place to place.
a. MT/V5
7
Q
Cerebral Color Vision Defects
- What is it?
- Dyschomatopsia: Define
- Achromatopsia: Define
- Hemiachromatopsia: Define
- What tests can be done?
- LOCATION?
A
- Don’t perceive colors properly. Damage to Visual Cortex
- Color looks dull, LESS BRIGHT
- Objects appear in shades of gray.
- Affects color discrimination in one hemifield.
- Ishihara and HRR
- Visual Cortex; U/L and C/L in Hemichromatopsia
8
Q
Simultanagnosia
- Define
- Test?
- Location of injury?
A
- Can’t grasp the entire meaning of a picture, but can recognize individual components
- “Cookie Theft” Picture
- B/L Occipital/Parietal Lobes
9
Q
Optic Ataxia
- Define
- Test?
- Location?
A
- Pt sees the object, but can’t reach for it accurately (Disconnect b/w Visual input and motor system)
- Ask Pt to touch various Objects
- B/L Occipital/Parietal Lobes
10
Q
Ocular Motor Apraxia
- Define
- Test?
- Location?
A
- Can’t make voluntary saccades to look at an object of interest, despite full ocular motilities
(Use head movements to change fixation) - Ask Pt to look quickly at various objects
- B/L Occipital/Parietal Lobes
11
Q
Balint Syndrome
- TRIAD (What is it?) (SOO)
- What pathway?
A
- Simultanagosia
Optic Ataxia
Ocular Motor Apraxia - DORSAL (“WHERE”) Pathway
12
Q
Visual Neglect
- Define
- Test
- Location
A
- Pts WONT pay attention to STIMULI shown in the LEFT HEMIFIELD, despite full visual fields.
- Line Bisection; Clock Drawing
- Right Inferior Parietal Lobe
13
Q
Blindsight
- Define
- Thought to be due to what?
A
- Pts w/Lesions to V1 can detect targets in the blind VF at a rate better than chance. (Spatial location, orientation, color, motion)
- Believed to be due to a RESIDUAL FUNCTION in a parallel visual processing pathway.
14
Q
Anton Syndrome
- Define
- Location
A
- Pts that are cortically blind but are NOT AWARE of their vision loss and insist that they can see. (Pt confabulates Visual perceptions)
- B/L Occipital Lobe Lesions
15
Q
- Illusion: Define
2. Hallucination: Define
A
- Pt has an ABNORMAL VISUAL PERCEPTION of a viewed object (Object looks WEIRD)
- Pt has a visual sensation that doesn’t correspond to a real object. (seeing something that isn’t really there)