Frontal Lobe Flashcards

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primar motor area functions

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  • Movement selection
  • Fine movements
  • Motor strength
  • Direction of movement
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Pre-Motor areaa

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pre-motor area
lateral area
medial area
frontal eye area
supplementary eye field
Broca's Area
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3
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What area # is Broca’s Area

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Area 44

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4
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Area 44 is ______-

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broca’s area

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5
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pre-motor area functions

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  • Movement programming
  • Corollary discharge (the world continues to stay stable despite the movement of our eyes)
  • Motor strength
  • Mirror neurons
  • Eye movement
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6
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connections of motor and pre-motor areas

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  • motor cortex
  • premotor cortex
  • eye fields
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7
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motor cortex

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  • projects to spinal neurons and cranial nerves

- projects to the basal ganglia and the red nucleus

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8
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premotor ortex

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  • projects to spinal cord and spinal cortex

- receives projections from parietal areas and dorsolateral perfrontal area

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9
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eye fields

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receive info from PG and the superior colliculus

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10
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symptoms of frontal lobe damage

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disturbances of motor function

  • loss of fine movement, speed, and strength
  • loss of movement programming
  • changes in voluntary gaze
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11
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loss of fine movement, speed, and strength is from damage to wehre

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primary motor cortex

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12
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loss of movement programming is from damage to where

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premotor or dorsolateral cortex

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13
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changes in voluntary gaze from damage to where

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frontlal eye fields

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14
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where is the end of dorsal and ventral streams

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dorsolateral PFC

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15
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3 connections of pre frontal cortex

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Dorsolateral PFC
orbitofrontal PFC
ventromedial PFC

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16
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dorsolateral PFC connections

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  • With posterior parietal cortex
  • The superior temporal sulcus
  • With the basal ganglia, and superior colliculus
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17
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Orbitofrontal PFC connections

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  • With auditory regions of the superior temporal cortex
  • Posterior central gyrus
  • Superior temporal sulcus
  • Visual regions of the inferior temporal cortex (Area TE)
  • Limbic regions of the medial temporal areas (related to memory)
  • Periaqueductal duct (pain perception)
  • olfaction and gustation
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18
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prefrontal cortex functions

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controls cognitive processes so that appropriate behaviours are selected at the correct time

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19
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internal cues

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  • temporal memory
  • working memory
  • feelings about something
  • guide how we think
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20
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temporal memory

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information collected from the dorsal and ventral streams

21
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working memory

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what are you thinking about in the here and the now

22
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external cuews

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  • What someone or something in environment does that gives us feedback that we use to adjust internal cues
23
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context cues

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  • Social interactions (orbitofrontal PFC)
24
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autonoetic awareness

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  • self knowledge collected over a lifetime of experience
  • Binding together the awareness of oneself as continuous through time
  • Have a sense of who and how you are relative to everyone else around you
25
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frontal lobe executive functions

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  • planning and selection
  • persistence and ignoring distracting stimuli
  • memory for what we have already done
  • responding to both internal and external and contextual information
26
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left frontal lobe

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language

encoding memories

27
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right frontal lobe

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non-verbal movements
facial expression
retrieving memories

28
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symptoms of frontal lobe lesions

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  • impaired divergent thinking
  • decreased verbal and design fluency
  • increased preservation
  • deficit of completing larger tasks
29
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tests used for frontal lobe damage

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test response inhibition:
stroop test
Wisconsin card sorting

30
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stroop

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say colour don’t read word

31
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Wisconsin card sorting test

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sort card into proper pile following a change in sorting “rules

32
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changes in personality

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  • Appears after lesions of the left frontal lobe
  • Outward apathy, indifference, loss of initiative
  • Reduced sexual interest, little or no verbal output
33
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Pseudo-psychology

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  • Appears after lesions of the right frontal lobe
  • Immature behavior, lack of tact and restraint
  • Promiscuous sexual behavior
  • Coarse language; lack of social graces
34
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diseases affecting frontal lobe

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  • schizophrenia
  • parkinson’s disease
  • korsakoff’s
35
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Schiophrenia and frontal lobe

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  • abnormality in the mesocortical dopaminergic projection

- decrease in blood flow to the frontal lobes

36
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parkinsons disease and frontal lobe

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loss of dopamine cells in the substantia nigra thaat project to prefrontal cortex

37
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Kotsakoffs

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alcohol induces damage over many years that damages the dorsomedial thalamus and a deficiency in frontal lobe catcholmines

38
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how do you test verbal fluency

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Thurstone word fluency

write words as you can that start with ___

39
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how do you test non-verbal fluency

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design fluency

40
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How do you test motor abilities

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hand dynamoetry
figer tapping
sequencing

41
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how do you test language comprehension

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token test
spelling
phonetic discrimination

42
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how do you test working memory

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self ordering

43
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how do you test planning

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tower of london

44
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Token test

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  • language comprehension test
  • shapes of different sizes and colors are placed in front of the subject
  • The test begins with simple tasks such as touch the white circle and then becomes progressively more difficult
  • Touch the large yellow circle
    and the large green square
45
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Broca’s area also known as

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inferior frontal gyrus

46
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Anterior cingulate cortex

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  • Makes extensive bidirectional connections with motor, premotor, and prefrontal cortex as well as with the insula
47
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voluntary gaze

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Frontal lobe lesions produced alterations in voluntary eye gaze

48
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prolonged stress is correlated with functionally significant changes in …

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the structure of neurons in the PFC that affect temporal memory and goal-directed behaviors