Finals: Brodmann's area Flashcards
Function: Initiation of Movement
Associated Lesion: Spastic Paresis
Primary Motor Cortex
Function: Motor Planning
Associated Lesion: Apraxia
Premotor Cortex
Function: Horizontal Gaze
Associated Lesion: Slow Deviation of eye toward side flexion
Frontal Eye Field
Function: Organizes and plans emotional and intellectual aspect of behavior
Associated Lesions: Lack of focus, initiative, foresight, and perspective. Apathy, Abulia, Slowness of thought, decreased social interaction. Sucking and grasp
Prefrontal Cortex
Function: Non-fluent or expressive aphasia
Associated Lesion: Agraphia
Broca’s Area
Function: Touch, vibration, proprioception, pain and temperature
Associated Lesions: Impairment of all somatic sensation
Primary Somatosensory Cortex
Function: Apraxia, Astereognosia, 2-pt discrimination, graphetesia, stereognosis
Somatosensory Association
Function: Acalculia, finger agnosia, right-left disorientation and agraphia, dyslexia
Angular Gyrus
Function: Egocentricity, Non-empathic Balint’s Syndrome: Optic ataxia, ocular apraxia, simultagnosia
Supramarginal Gyrus
Function: Perception of taste
Associated Lesion: Loss of taste
Primary Gustatory Area
Function: Vision
Associated Lesions: Homonymous Hemianopsia, Superior/Inferior quadrantic hemianopsia, Cortical Blindness
Primary Visual Area
Function: Color blindness, Balint’s syndrome
Visual Association
Function: Processing of auditory stimuli
Associated Lesion: Partial Deafness
Primary Auditory Cortex
Function: Auditory Association
Associated Lesion: Wernicke’s Aphasia (receptive)
Wernicke’s Area (L) only
Wernicke’s Area (L) only
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