Fundamentals Flashcards

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what does cerebral dominance align with?

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dominant hand (right-handed people are left brain dominant)

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what do frontal lobes control?

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emotion and personality
social behaviour
contralateral motor control
language
urination

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what occurs when there is damage to the frontal lobe

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behaviour and personality disorders
antisocial behaviours
expressive speech disturbance
incontinence
impaired memory
tumours can also cause night time seizures

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what does the parietal lobe control

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sensory perception
language
numeracy
non-dominant lobe is concerned with spatial awareness, orientation and constructional skills

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what occurs when there is damage to the parietal lobe

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dyslexia
dyspraxia
agnosia
acalculia
neglect of the contralateral side
spatial disorientation

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what are the temporal lobes involved with

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memory functions
linked with limbic system (memory and emotional processing
verbal comprehension
primary auditory and vestibular cortex
musical processing (rhythm=dominant, pitch and melody=non-dominant)

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what is the occipital lobe responsible for

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visual interpretation
contralateral visual hemifield is represented in each primary visual cortex
surrounding areas of cortex process visual sub-modalities (such as colour, movement, depth and analysis of more complex visual patterns)

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what does problems with the occipital lobe lead to

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visual inattention
visual loss
visual agnosia

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what are the deep nuclei of the brain and their function

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basal ganglia - motor control
thalamus - level of attention to sensory perception
limbic system - emotion and memory
hypothalamus - homeostasis

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what does the brainstem contain

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all the sensory and motor pathways leaving the brain
houses the nuclei and projections of most cranial nerves

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what do the cranial nerves do

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provide motor control to muscles of the head
coordinate sensory input from the spatial sense organs in the head
relays autonomic messages

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what is the reticular formation involved in

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control of conjugate eye movements
maintenance of balance and arousal
cardiorespiratory control

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what is the function of the cerebellum

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controls the same half of the body
finetunes and coordinates movements initiated by the motor cortex (including articulation of speech)
involved in planning and learning of skilled movements
controls smoothness of eye movements
accuracy of limb movement
distance of targets
rapid regularly alternating movements
coordination of gait and posture

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