Lecture 1 - Brain

Question 1

which side of the brain is the dominant side and what hand does it control + what’s its main function?

Answer 1

left
right hand
language

Question 2

what are all the lobes/cortexes of the brain? + two structures that are not within a lobe

Answer 2

frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital
+ cerebellum + brainstem/spinal chord

Question 3

premotor cortex lobe location and function

Answer 3

• temporal love
  -planning motor activity

Question 4

pre central gyrus:
another name for it, lobe location and function

Answer 4

primary motor cortex
frontal lobe
signals for movement/carries out motor activities

Question 5

post central gyrus:
another name for it, lobe location and function

Answer 5

primary sensory cortex
parietal lobe
recieves sensory information

Question 6

Parietal Association Cortex function

Answer 6

spatial skills, 3D recognition (shapes, faces, concepts, abstract perception)

Question 7

supramarginal gyrus:
lobe location and function

Answer 7

parietal lobe
reading, muscle control, interpretation

Question 8

angular gyrus:
lobe location and function

Answer 8

parietal lobe
writing, precise motor/muscular activity

Question 9

primary visual cortex:
lobe location and function

Answer 9

occipital lobe
receives input from eyes, interprets periphery into colour and shapes

Question 10

secondary visual cortex:
lobe location and function

Answer 10

occipital lobe, takes visuals in, interprets into context of past experiences

Question 11

primary auditory cortex:
lobe location and function

Answer 11

temporal lobe
organises a system of sounds: tones and times
language + sound

Question 12

wernicke’s area: another name for it,
lobe location and function

Answer 12

secondary corticol area
temporal lobe
interpret of language (not sound that’s not language)

Question 13

lateral sylvian fissure role

Answer 13

separates temporal lobe from frontal/parietal lobes

Question 14

arcuate fasculus: matter description,
lobe location and function

Answer 14

made up of white matter
connects frontal, parietal and temporal lobes
(joins broca’s and wernicke’s areas + connects understanding and speaking)

Question 15

frontal association cortex:
lobe location

Answer 15

MC.PIB
intelligence, personality, behaviour, mood, cognitive function

Question 16

temporal association cortex:
lobe location and function

Answer 16

MAMI - acronym
- memory, mood, aggression, intelligence

Question 16

broca’s area:
lobe location and function

Answer 16

frontal lobe
speech production/articulating spoken word

Question 17

non-dominant hemisphere (right) function

Answer 17

NESCA
- non-verbal/body language
- emotional expression (tone of language)
- spatial skills (3D)
- conceptual understanding (object recognition)
- artistic/musical skills

Question 18

grey matter
- make up
- function

Answer 18

lots of neuron’s cell bodies

information processing (think, reason, perception, sensation, voluntary movement, learning, speech, cognition)

Question 19

white matter function

Answer 19

provides communication between different grey matter areas + between grey matter areas and the rest of the body

Question 20

wernicke’s area aphasia clinical description

Answer 20

• lesion/challenge/tumor/stroke
• inability to understand spoken word
• if person can speak fluently, what they say doesn’t relate to what was asked

Question 21

broca’s aphasia clinical description

Answer 21

• non-fluent/motor aphasia
• difficulty in expressing spoken word/what they want to say

Question 22

connection aphasia clinical description

Answer 22

speaking and understanding unaffected but not connected

Question 23

cingulate gyrus:
lobe location and function

Answer 23

frontal lobe
gets right type of information to the right part of the brain

Question 24

ventricles:
lobe location and function

Answer 24

frontal, occipital, temporal
fluid filled space that goes from middle of the brain down to central structures of the brain

Question 25

hypothalamus function

Answer 25

hormone regulation of the brain

Question 26

what 3 structures make up the hindbrain

Answer 26

cerebellum + pons + medulla

Question 27

Exner’s area function

Answer 27

writing and reading

Question 28

Homunculus defintion

Answer 28

a representation of the human body in the brain

Question 29

cerebellum function and another name

Answer 29

primary auditory cortex
organises sounds (tones/time)