Impact Of Neurological Damage

Question 1

Neurological damage

Answer 1

Damage to body’s central and peripheral nervous system
If brain damaged messaged would be interrupted

Question 2

Visual agnosia

Answer 2

An inability to recognise things that can be seen

Disorder which a person sees perfectly but cannot understand what they are seeing

Question 3

Agnosia

Answer 3

Problem in the way the brain processes sensory information
Brian unable to make sense of information
Person not being able to recognise something that’s presented to them

Question 4

Symptoms of visual agnosia

Answer 4

Info from eye to brain cannot be understood
Person can’t justify things they can see

Patients might not be able to recognise the colour of an object
Patient might not be able to recognise objects and name them
Patients might not be able to recognise places they are familiar with

Question 5

Prosopagnosia
(Face blindness)

Answer 5

Unable to recognise faces
Eye can send information to brain about face but brain is unable to recognise who the face belongs to
Some cases cannot recognise family members
Can be caused by damage of part of the brain near the back of the temporal lobe known as fusiform face area (FFA)

Question 6

Symptoms of prosopagnosia

Answer 6

Find difficult to identify people from their faces
Might find all faces ‘the same’ & cannot tell faces apart
Might not be able to recognise faces of people that are well known to them

Question 7

Pre-frontal cortex

Answer 7

Helps us control our impulses
Part of the brain that stops you from doing something (such as hitting someone when angry)
Part of brain helps keep our emotions balanced so we don’t get too emotional no matter the emotions we feel

Question 8

Impact of damage to the pre-frontal context

Answer 8

People may become impulsive and aggressive
Make it difficult for people to control their emotions
Personality may seem to change
Can make it more likely to commit crimes

Study (Adrian Raine et al)
Brain of murders and people who didn’t commit murder had differences in pre-frontal cortex of the brain
Murders had less activity in pre frontal making them more impulsive and aggressive

Question 9

Fusiform face area (FFA)

Answer 9

Part of temporal lobe, close to the occipital lobe that is thought to help in face recognition