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
BA 22
Primary Auditory Cortex
BA 41,42
Visual Association
BA 18,19
Primary Visual Area
BA 17
Primary Gustatory Area
BA 43
Supramarginal Gyrus
BA 40
Angular Gyrus
BA 39
Primary Somatosensory Cortex
BA 3,1,2
Broca’s Area
BA 44-45
Prefrontal Cortex
BA 9-12
