lec 16

Question 1

Apraxia

from damage to where?

Answer 1

inability to do complex movement sequences (comb hair, eat with utencils

the result of damage to motor associations areas

Question 2

what hemisphere is dominant for most people

what cognitive function it meant for

Answer 2

left

logic

Question 3

what is hemi-spatial neglect

Answer 3

only damage to right hemisphere (because right hem sense both left and right side and left hem senses only left) causes neglect to contralateral side (left side)

Question 4

Conceptual neglect - describe Anosognosia and hemiasomatognosia

Hint: they are both about awareness of issue

Answer 4

ano - not aware of problems with left side

hemi - can’t recognise that limb belongs to them

Question 5

when people dress themselves with apraxia, do they dress their left or right side

Answer 5

dress right side but not left, because although dress right side with left hand, they still have motor function but neglect

Question 6

Describe the alien hand phenomena

damage to what area

Answer 6

where damage to corpus collosum and supplementary motor area

hand act autonomously (often counteracts your other hand/mischievous)