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Lecture 12: Cerebrum Flashcards

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Where is cortical information housed?

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In the gyri

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Why are the gyri important?

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Because they are where cortical information is housed

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What is in the outer part of gray matter?

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Cortical neuronal cell bodies extending axons to different places

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Where can cortical neurons extent their axons?

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*From one gyrus to another
*One lobe to another
*To the other hemisphere
*Down to the spinal cord

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Where do short association fibers go?

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From one gyrus to another gyrus in the the same lobe (or a gyrus close by)

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Where do long association fibers go?

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From one lobe to another lobe and stay on the same side of the cortex

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Where do commissural fibers go?

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From one hemisphere to the other (through the corpus callosum)

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Where do Projection fibers go?

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Down the spinal cord

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What are the for types of association fibers?

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*Short association fibers
*Long association fibers
*Commissural fibers
*Projection fibers

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What association fibres go from gyrus to gyrus?

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Short association fibers

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What association fibres go from lobe to lobe?

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Long association fibers

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What association fibres go from hemisphere to hemisphere?

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Commissural fibers

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What association fibres go down the spinal cord?

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Projection fibres

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What are the main projection fibers that go down the spinal cord?

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*Corticospinal
*Corticobulbar
*Spinothalamic
*Dorsal Columns Medial Lemniscal

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What is the internal capsule?

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The white matter tracts that travel between the thalamus and basal ganglia in the brain

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What are the three parts of the internal capsule?

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Anterior Limb
Genu
Posterior Limb

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What are the parts of the basal ganglia?

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*Caudate
*Putamen
*Globus Pallidus

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What is in the anterior limb of the Internal Capsule?

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Thalamocortical projects (all sensory afferents except for afferents)

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What pathways are part of the thalamocortical projects that go through the anterior limb of the internal capsule?

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*Spinothalamic tract
*Dorsal Columns Medial Lemniscus
*Trigeminothalamic tract

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What pathways are part of the Posterior Limb?

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Corticospinal tracts for conscious movements of the lower limbs

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What is the Corticobulbar tracts?

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Motor tracts for conscious movement of the muscles of the face

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What is housed in the genu of the Internal Capsule?

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The Corticobulbar tracts

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What are the nuclei associated with the corticobulbar tracts?

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*Oculomotor nucleus
*Abducens
*Trochlear
*Trigeminal
*Facial

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Why is a stroke or lesion the the internal capsule important?

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Because the internal capsule houses many axon tracts

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What is found in layer I of the cortex?

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  • Few nerve cell bodies
  • Many dendritic and axonal processes in synaptic interaction
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What is found in layer II of the cortex?

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  • Small neurons which establish intracortical connections
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What is found in layer III of the cortex?

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  • Medium-sized neurons giving rise to association and commissural fibres
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What is found in layer IV of the cortex?

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Termination of afferent fibres from the thalamus

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What is found in layer V of the cortex?

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  • The origin of projection fibres to extracortical targets, such as BG, thalamus, brainstem and spinal cord
  • In the primary motor cortex of the frontal lobe, this layer contains corticospinal tract cell bodies
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What is found in layer VI of the cortex?

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Association and projection fibers

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In what layer of the cortex is association and projection fibers found?

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Layer VI

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In what layer of the cortex are:
- Few nerve cell bodies
- Many dendritic and axonal processes in synaptic interaction

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Layer I

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In what layer of the cortex are:
- Small neurons which establish intracortical connections

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Layer II

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In what layer of the cortex are:
- Medium-sized neurons giving rise to association and commissural fibres

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Layer III

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In what layer of the cortex are:
- Termination of afferent fibres from the thalamus

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Layer IV

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In what layer of the cortex are:
- The origin of projection fibres to extracortical targets, such as BG, thalamus, brainstem and spinal cord
- In the primary motor cortex of the frontal lobe, this layer contains corticospinal tract cell bodies

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Layer V

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What is functionally located in the Frontal Lobe?

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  • Higher cognitive function
  • Motor planning and execution
  • Language
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What is functionally located in the Parietal Lobe?

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  • Somatic sense of body image
  • 3D localization of self and targets in space
  • Language
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What is functionally located in the Occipital lobe?

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Vision

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What is functionally located in the temporal lobe?

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  • Short-term memory
  • Learning
  • Auditory
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Where is:
- Higher cognitive function
- Motor planning and execution
- Language

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Frontal Lobe

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Where is:
- Somatic sense of body image
- 3D localization of self and targets in space
- Language

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Parietal Lobe

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Where is:
- Vision

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Occipital lobe

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Where is:
- Short-term memory
- Learning
- Auditory

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Temporal Lobe

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What is stored in the Limbic system?

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Emotional, social and sexual behavior

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Where is:
Emotional, social and sexual behavior

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Limbic system

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What is information on functional localization mostly from?

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  • Stimulation and ablation studies
  • Electrophysiological recording
  • Observations of regional blood flow
  • Post mortem studies of patients with known lesions
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What is the Montreal surgery?

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Stimulating the brain with electrical probes while patients were conscious to observe their responses. This led to the cortical homunculus

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What led to homunculus?

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The Montreal surgery where they stimulated brains of conscious people and observed responses

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What led to Broca’s area?

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The post-mortem study of patient ‘Tan’ who could understand everything but could only speak the word Tan

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What was discovered in patient Tan?

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A lesion in the left inferior frontal lobe - the orbital triangular and opercular which makes up Broca’s speech area

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What area of the brain is Broca’s speech area?

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Left inferior frontal lobe - the orbital triangular and opercular

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Where is Wernicke’s area?

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The posterior portion of the left temporal lobe

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What happens if there is a lesion in Wernicke’s area?

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People cannot understand what is being said to them and their speech is often incoherent and makes no sense**

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What is the function of the Primary Auditory Cortex?

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Sound Localization

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Where is the primary auditory cortex located?

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Heschl’s gyrus

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What is housed in Heschl’s gyrus?

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The primary auditory cortex

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Where is information carry from Heschl’s gyrus?

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Short association fibres carry information to neighbouring gyri like Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area

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What is the function of Wernicke’s sensory speech area?

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Comprehension of sound

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What will a lesion to Wernicke’s sensory speech area cause?

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Sensory and Receptive Aphasia

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What is Sensory Aphasia?

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Inability to understand spoken word

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What is receptive aphasia?

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When someone is able to speak well and use long sentences, but what they say may not make sense

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What may cause sensory and receptive aphasia?

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A lesion to Wernicke’s sensory speech area

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What is the function of Broca’s Motor Speech Area?

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Formulation of the motor movements for speech

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What can a lesion to Broca’s area cause?

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Broca’s aphasia, motor aphasia or expressive aphasia - can understand what they are hearing but can’t reply

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What is Broca’s aphasia, motor aphasia, or expressive aphasia?

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Issues with producing speech

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What may cause issues with producing the motor movements for speech?

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A lesion to Broca’s area

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What is the Arcuate Fasciculus?

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A white matter tract that runs from Wernicke’s to Broca’s area

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What is the Arcuate Fasciculus used for?

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When a person is asked to repeat after another person

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What can a lesion to the Arcuate Fasciculus cause?

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Conduction aphasia, but they are good with spontaneous speech

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What is conduction aphasia?

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The inability to repeat words or phrases

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What may cause conduction aphasia?

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The inability to repeat words or phrases

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What are the steps to verbally respond to a question?

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  1. Listen (primary auditory cortex)
  2. Comprehend (Wernicke’s area)
  3. Send association fibres through the Arcuate Fasciculus
  4. Broca’s motor speech area to formulate speech
  5. Activate UMN for speech muscles
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What are the three operation system of the brain?

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  1. Sensory systems
  2. Association systems
  3. Motor systema
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What do the Sensory systems do?

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Create the internal representation of the outside world

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What do association systems do?

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Integration of diverse sensory information for planning purposeful action

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What is the Topography of the Primary Sensory Cortex?

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The Homonculus

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What is the Homunculus essential for?

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Recognition and localization of sensory stimuli

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What is the each primary sensory area surround by?

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A larger zone of association cortex that interpret that sensation

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What is an association cortex?

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An area that interprets the incoming signals and is appropriately connected to other parts of the cerebral cortex

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What do Lesions to Association cortices cause?

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  • Agnosias
  • Aphasias
  • Apraxias
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What are Agnosia’s?

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The inability to recognize common objects (parietal lobe)

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What lobe are Agnosia’s associated with?

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The Parietal lobe

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What are aphasias?

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The inability to understand/vocalize speech

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What are aphasia associated with?

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Wernicke’s or Broca’s area

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What are Apraxias?

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The inability to execute purposeful movements (motor planning disorder)

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What may a lesion in the Primary Sensory Cortex cause?

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Tingling and numbness

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What is the Posterior Parietal Cortex?

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The association cortex for the Primary Sensory Cortex

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What can a lesion in the Posterior Parietal Cortex cause?

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Agnosia - won’t be able to identify something by touch
Neglect - Won’t understand that their own body is a part of themselves

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What may cause Agnosia and Neglect?

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A lesion to the Posterior Parietal Cortex

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What may a lesion to the Primary Visual Cortex cause?

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Visual Field Defects

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What may a lesion to the Visual Association Cortex cause?

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Visual Agnosia - Issues interpreting what is seen

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What may cause visual agnosia?

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A lesion to the Visual Association Cortex

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What may a lesion to the Primary Auditory Cortex cause?

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Inability for sound localization

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What may cause the inability for sound localization?

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A lesion to the primary auditory cortex

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What may a lesion to Wernicke’s sensory speech area cause?

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Sensory and receptive aphasia - inability to comprehend

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What can lesions to the Parietal, temporal and Occipital association cause?

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Different agnosias

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What can lesiona to the Limbic association cortex cause?

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Schizophrenia and depressive illness

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What may cause Schizophrenia and depressive illness?

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Lesions to the Limbic Association Cortex

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What do Lesions to the Prefrontal Association Cortex cause?

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Personality and behavior disorders

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What causes personality and behaviour disorders?

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Lesions to the prefrontal cortex

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What makes up the Primary Olfacotry area?

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The uncus, parts of the insula and the frontal gyri

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What are lesions to the parietal association cortex usually like?

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They are often incomplete and the ability to feel an object may be present but there may be a defect in the ability to interpret this sensation

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What is Tactile Agnosia?

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The inability to interpret a touch sensation due to a lesion in the parietal association cortex

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What is Astereognosis?

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The loss of awareness of the spatial relation of parts of the contralateral side of the body (can’t discriminate shape)

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What is another name for Astereognosis?

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Tactile amnesia

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What is Cortical Neglect?

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An extreme form of astereognosis in which the patient ignores/denies one side of the body and corresponding visual field

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What is the ventral stream of the Visual association cortex for?

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  • Color
  • Letters
  • Faces
    -Visual memories
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What is the Dorsal Stream of the Visual Association Cortex for?

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  • 3D visual understanding of an object
  • Motion of an object
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What does a lesion to the Ventral stream cause?

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Prosopagnosia

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What causes Prospopagnosia?

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A lesion to the ventral stream

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What is Prosopagnosia?

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Cannot recognize faces

113
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Which visual association stream recognizes:
- Color
- Letters
- Faces
- Visual memories

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Ventral Stream

114
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Which Stream recognizes:
- 3D visual understanding of an object
- Motion of an object

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Dorsal Stream

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Which lobe is the Dorsal Stream apart of?

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The occipital and parietal lobe

116
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What does a lesion to the primary auditory cortex cause?

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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What is Wernicke’s aphasia?

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When you can’t understand the difference between someone’s voice and other sounds

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What is Amusia?

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A right side lesion in the Primary Auditory cortex leading to inability to recognize previously ‘familiar’ voices and music

119
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What causes Amusia?

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A right side lesion in the primary auditory cortex

120
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What is unique about the olfactory and gustatory association cortices?

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They intermix

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What is the function of the Olfactory and Gustatory cortices?

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They allow us to smell and identify taste

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Why do the Olfactory and Gustatory cortices send association fibers?

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To get an emotional response to a smell or taste and to acquire memories associated with smell

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What can a lesion to the olfactory and gustatory cortex cause?

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Anosmia - loss of smell which leads to lack of taste

124
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What causes Anosmia?

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A lesion to the olfactory and gustatory association cortices

125
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What is localized in the left hemisphere?

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  • Broca’s motor speech area (frontal lobe)
  • Wernicke’s sensory speech area
126
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What is the Premotor cortex responsible for?

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Telling upper motor neurons when to fire

127
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How do the Premotor cortex and the Supplementary Motor cortex work?

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They receive feedback from basal ganglia, reticular formation, and the limbic system, which they integrate in order to tell the primary motor cortex when to fire

128
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Where is sensory information in the motor system coming from?

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  • Understanding your surroundings - Posterior parietal Cortex
  • Visual info - Primary Visual Cortex
129
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What are the three main steps in motor movements?

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  1. Identification of body in space - posterior parietal cortex
  2. Formulation of plan - Premotor cortex
  3. Execution of movement - Primary motor cortex
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What are the descending motor pathways?

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  • Corticospinal
  • Corticobulbar
  • Corticoreticular
  • Reticulospinal
  • Vestibulospinal
  • Rubrospinal
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What are the two conscious descending motor pathways?

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Corticospinal and corticobulbar

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What two things can an UMN do to a LMN?

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It can excite or inhibit the LMN

133
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What does a lesion to the UMN cause?

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Disinhibition of the LMN causing spastic paralysis

134
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What causes spastic paralysis?

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A lesion to the UMN

135
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What does a lesion to the LMN cause?

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Flaccid paralysis so the LMN won’t contract

136
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What is the Hierarchy of the Descending Motor Pathways?

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  1. Corticobulbar and Corticospinal (pyramidal tracts)
  2. Corticoreticular, reticulospinal, vestibulospinal, rubrospinal (extrapyramidal tracts)
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Describe the Corticospinal and Corticobulbar tract?

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The allow for voluntary control of LMNs but they receive input from the basal ganglia and cerebellum o ensure smooth, coordinated, purposeful movement

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What are the Corticospinal and Corticobulbar tract modulated by?

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The basal ganglia and cerebellum

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What do the basal ganglia and cerebellum do for the Corticospinal and Corticobulbar tracts?

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Ensure smooth, coordinated and purposeful movement

140
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What can a basal ganglia lesion causes?

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Parkinson’s disease
Huntington’s Chorea

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What does a Cerebellar lesion cause?

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Ipsilateral ataxia

142
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Why are the extrapyramidal tracts important?

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Because they work behind the scene to allow conscious movements to occur in the right way so that we don’t need to think about multiple movements

143
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What are the four extrapyramidal tracts?

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  • Corticoreticulospinal tract
  • Vestibulospinal tract
  • Rubrospinal tract
  • Tectospinal tract
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What does the Corticoreticulospinal tract do?

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Excitatory to leg extensors and arm flexors

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What does the Vestibulospinal tract do?

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Excitatory to arm and leg extensors and inhibitory to arm and leg flexors

146
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What does the Rubrospinal tract do?

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Inhibitory to arm extensors and excitatory to arm flexors. No effect on leg muscles

147
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What does the Tectospinal tract do?

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Influences leg muscles

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Which descending motor pathway is excitatory to leg extensors and arm flexors?

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The Corticoreticulospinal tract

149
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Which descending motor pathway is excitatory to arm and leg extensors and inhibitory to arm and leg flexors?

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The vestibulospinal tract

150
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What descending motor pathway is inhibitory to arm extensors and excitatory to arm flexors with no effect on leg muscles?

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The Rubrospinal tract

151
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What descending motor pathway influences the neck muscles?

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The tectospinal tract

152
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How does the tectospinal tract influence the neck muscles?

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Turns the head with you see something in the visual field or when someone whispers in the ear etc

153
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What are the two types of posturing?

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Decorticate posturing
Decerebrate posturing

154
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Where in the brain is a lesion that causes Decorticate Posturing?

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The lesion is below the cerebral cortex and at the very top of the midbrain

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What are the characteristics of the tracts in Decorticate Posturing?

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The extrapyramidal tracts are all functional
- The rubrospinal tract flexes the upper body
- The corticoreticular tract flexes upper body and extends lower body
- The vestibulospinal tract is excitatory to arm/leg extensors and arm extensors are overruled by corticospinal and rubrospinal tracts

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What are the characteristics of the limbs in Decorticate Posturing?

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Arms flexed and legs extended

157
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What are the characteristics of the limbs in deceberate posturing?

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Arms and legs extended

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What are the characteristics of the pathways in Decerebrate Posturing?

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  • CST and Rubrospinal tract are not active
  • Corticoreticulospinal tract want to flex upper body (overruled by VST) and extend lower body
    -Vestibulospinal tract is excitatory to arm and leg extensors and inhibitory to arm and leg flexors with extends upper body
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Q

As a brainstem lesion gets lower what happens to the posturing?

A

Can change a decorticate to a decebreate Posturing

Neuro 3 (21 decks)

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