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Higher Order Cerebral Functions Flashcards

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What are unimodel cerebral functions?

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modality-specific

EX: motor association or visual association

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What are heteromodal cerebral functions?

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Bilateral association

Higher order mental and emotional functions

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Many basic sensory/motor functions in brain are distributed symmetrically and are connected by what?

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Long association fibers carried by corpus callosum

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Why are asymmetries noted in certain brain functions?

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Allow brain to process w/o other side of brain (decrease time for hemis to talk)

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Handedness skilled complex motor tasks are programmed by which hemi?

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Dominant

simple movements controlled by each hemi

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What if patient with Apraxia had a left hemi lesion, would they be able to complete command with left side?

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No, both hands would be unable to complete task

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T/F There is bilateral representation of language in many left handers

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True

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Right/Left handers will recover more quickly?

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Left handers

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Which hemi will:

  1. Take lead in complex visual-spatial skills
  2. imparts emotional significance to events and language
  3. Music perception
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Non dom hemi

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Lesion of non dom hemi will lead to what?

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Neglect

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What visual-spatial analysis/constructional difficulties will non dom hemi lesions experience?

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  1. Drawing pictures
  2. arranging blocks in specific patterns
  3. difficulty matching orientation of lines displayed at different angles
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non dom hemi lesions may experience gestalt difficulties, what are they?

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overall spatial arrangement - patient can’t look at big picture

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T/F non dom hemi lesion tend to have mild personality/emotional changes

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False, tend to have relatively severe personality and emotional changes

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Non dom hemi or dom hemi have increased likelihood to have delusions and hallucinations?

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Non dom hemi

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Capgas Syndrome -

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nondominant

Patients insist that their friends and family members have all been replaced by identical-looking imposters

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Fregoli syndrome -

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nondominant

Patients believe that different people are actually the same person in disguise

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Reduplicative paramnesia -

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nondominant

Patients believe that a person, place, or object exists as two identical copies

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi:
Musical ability: in untrained musicians, and for complex musical pieces in trained musicians
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Non dom (right)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
Musical ability: sequential and analytic skills in trained musicians
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Dom (left)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
Skilled motor formulation (praxis)
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dom (left)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
Visual-spatial analysis and spatial attention
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Non dom (right)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
prosody (emotion conveyed by tone of voie)
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Non dom (right)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
Language
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Dom (left)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
Arithmetic: sequential and analytical calculating skills
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dom (left)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
Arithmetic: ability to estimate quantity and to correctly line up columns of numbers on the page
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non dom (right)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
Sense of directions: following a set of written directions in sequence
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dom (left)

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Choose dom (usually rigth)/non dom (usually left) hemi: 
Sense of direction: finding one’s way by overall sense of spatial orientation
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non dom (right)

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How do broca’s and wernicke’s communicate?

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Arcuate fasiciculus

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Which brain area helps with higher motor aspects of speech formation (planning) and syntax (grammer)?

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Frontal lobes

30
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Which brain area helps with Lexicon (vocabulary bank) and Writing?

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Supramarginal Gyrus & Angular Gyrus (Parietal & Temporal Lobes)

31
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Which brain area helps with reading?

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visual Cortex, Visual Association Cortex

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Which hemi helps with language network – recognition and production of emotion in our speech?

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Non dom hemi

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T/F The thalamus and basal ganglia will also be involved in language

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Syndromes that relate to aphasia:

What is Alexia and where would you find damage?

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o Impairment in reading ability
o Alexia without aphasia: lesion to the dominant occipital cortex extending to the posterior corpus callosum (often PCA infarct)

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Syndromes that relate to aphasia:

What is Agraphia and where would you find damage?

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o Impairment in writing ability

o Agraphia without aphasia: lesions of inferior parietal lobule of language-dominant hemisphere

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Syndromes that relate to aphasia:

What is Alexia with Agraphia? Where would you find damage?

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o Lesions of dominant inferior parietal lobe, region of angular gyrus
o Aphasia absent or only mild dysnomia and paraphasias

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Gerstmann’s Syndrome
What 4 issues?
Damage to what?

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involvement to dominant inferior parietal lobe

  1. Agraphia
  2. Acalculia - Impaired arithmetic calculating abilities
  3. R-L disorientation
  4. Finger agnosia - Inability to name individual fingers
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What are the two streams of information passed along from visual cortex to its association cortex?

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Where?
 Analyzes motions and spatial relationships between objects
 Analyses motion and spatial relationship between body and visual stimuli
What?
 Analyzes form

39
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Disorders involving the Primary Visual Cortex

Cortical Blindness - where/what?

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 Bilateral occipital lobe lesion

 Complete visual loss on confrontation testing (blink to threat – hand to face)

40
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Disorders involving the Primary Visual

Blindsight - where/what?

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 Performs tasks without conscious visual perception

 Visual cortex lesion

41
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Disorders involving the Primary Visual

Anton’s Syndrome - where/what?

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 Bilateral occipital lobe lesion

 Complete visual loss on confrontation testing + anosognosia (denial of impairments)

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Syndromes of the Inferior Occipitotemporal Cortex:

Prosopagnosia -

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inability to recognize faces

43
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Syndromes of the Inferior Occipitotemporal Cortex:

Achromatopsia (diff in whole visual field loss or just one eye)?

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 Difficulty with color perception
 Whole visual field involved: Lesions in bilateral inferior occipitotemporal cortex
 One eye: contralateral cortical involvement

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Syndromes of the Inferior Occipitotemporal Cortex:

Micropsia, macropsia?

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Objects appear unusually small or big

45
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Syndromes of the Inferior Occipitotemporal Cortex:

Metamorphopsia

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Objects have distorted shape and size

46
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Syndromes of the Inferior Occipitotemporal Cortex:

Cerebral diplopia/polyopia?

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Sees two or more of things

Occipital lobe lesion

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Dorsolateral Parieto-Occipital Cortex (“Where?):

Simultanagnosia -

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Impaired ability to perceive parts of a visual scene as a whole (visuals constantly moving around to them – difficult to maintain focus on objects)

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Dorsolateral Parieto-Occipital Cortex (“Where?):

Optic Ataxia - (what is difference between coordination)

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Impaired ability to reach for or point to objects in space under visual guidance (different than coordination = all other sensory is fine, patients do not have problem with finger to nose if they close their eyes and/or once they hit it once, they will improve their visual performance)

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Dorsolateral Parieto-Occipital Cortex (“Where?):

Ocular Apraxia -

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Difficulty voluntarily directing one’s gaze towards objects in peripheral vision (despite normal CN, may compensate with movement of head to get eyes moving)

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Dorsolateral Parieto-Occipital Cortex (“Where?):

Baliant’s Syndrome - (what 3 things would you see)

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	Bilateral lesions of DL parieto-occipital cortex
	Clinical Triad: 
1. Simultanagnosia
2. Optic Ataxia
3. Ocular Apraxia
51
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Where do we see connections to/from the prefrontal cortex??

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Everywhere

52
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What are 2 cortical connections of the prefrontal cortex?

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o Association cortices

o Limbic cortex

53
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What are 5 subcortical connections of the prefrontal cortex?

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o	Amygdala
o	Hippocampus
o	Thalamus (via mediodorsal nucleus)
o	Basal Ganglia (via caudate nucleus)
o	And more…
54
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What are 3 general functions of the frontal lobe?

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  1. Restraint (judgement, concentration)
  2. Initiative (drive, motivation)
  3. Order (abstract reasoning, working memory)
55
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What characteristics when dorsolateral front lobe disorder?

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apathetic, abulic (abnormal inability to act or make decisions, apathetic, delayed responses)

56
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What characteristics when ventromedial front lobe disorder?

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impulsive, disinhibited, poor judgement

57
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Left hemi frontal lobe disorder vs right?

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o Left: associated with depression-like symptoms

o Right: more associated with behavioral disturbances like mania

58
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Frontal lobe syndromes are also called what?

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“Dysexecutive Syndrome”

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Frontal lobe symptoms:

disinhibition -

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Silly behavior, crass jokes, aggressive outbursts

60
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Frontal lobe symptoms:
Inappropriate jocularity (“witzelsucht”)
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Seemingly unconcerned about potentially serious matters

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Frontal lobe symptoms:
Utilization behavior/environmental dependence -
Also called what?

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Respond to whatever stimuli at hand, even when not appropriate
 “Next bed over syndrome” – will answer questions even if not for them

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Frontal lobe symptoms:

Frontal release signs -

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Palmar reflex, grasp reflex, sucking reflex, etc

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Frontal lobe symptoms:

Paratonia -

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Increase in tone, but in a manner in which patient appears to resist the movements of the examiner in almost a willful fashion

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Frontal lobe symptoms:

“Frontal gait” -

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Shuffling, unsteady, magnetic gait

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