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Lecture 6 Flashcards

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Describe:

Frontal Lobe

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  • Everything anterior of central sulcus
  • Largest lobe, about 1/3 of the cerebral cortex
  • Matures and develops until the person is in late 20s
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Define:

Synaptic pruning

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Getting rid of connections, establishing what connections it should keep up until early 20s

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Why is synaptic pruning done?

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Keeps brain as effective as it can

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True or False:

When you’re in your 30’s, you lose about 1% of your neurons/year

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True

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What is the decrease in neurons in the frontal lobe associated with?

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Cognitive decline when people reach 60’s and 70’s

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6
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List:

Key features of frontal lobe

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Betz cells/giant motor neuron in Layer V
Primary motor cortex (M1)
Associative motor areas

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What are the key roles of the frontal lobe?

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  • Important for motor output to central spinal cord
  • Plays a key role in executive function, a high level cognitive construct
  • Seat of consciousness, seat of human awareness, seat of “self”
  • Specialized for metacognition - thinking about thinking (aware that we can think, ability to recognize that we are thinking)
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What is a tell-tale sign of a frontal lobe stroke?

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They may tell you they don’t feel like themselves (different personality etc.)

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Define:

Metacognition

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Thinking about thinking (being aware that we can think and we are thinking)

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State:

Composition of frontal lobe executive function

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Inhibitory control
Working memory
Cognitive flexibility

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True or False:

Inhibitory control develops last

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False, inhibitory control develops at 2-3 years of age and has to be mastered before others

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What is inhibitory control?

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Ability to inhibit a planned response, or suppress a planned response

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When does working memory emerge?

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At 3-5 years of age

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Define:

Working memory

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Ability to mentally organize and arrange, a fleeting memory system

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Define:

Cognitive flexibility

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The ability to task switch

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What will frontal lobe lesions cause?

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Cause executive dysfunction

17
Q

True or False:

Executive dysfunction is the most characteristic symptom of concussions

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True

18
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What does DLPFC stand for? What is its purpose?

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Dorsalateral Prefrontal Cortex
Where inhibitory control happen, has inhibitory neurons

19
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List:

The 2 early indications of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
Cognitive Impairment Not Dementia

20
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What are early indications of Alzheimer’s Disease known as?

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Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease

21
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Describe:

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)

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Persons with an objective cognitive impairment and a self-reported subjective cognitive complaint

22
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Describe:

Cognitive Impairment Not Dementia

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Persons with no objective cognitive impairment but reporting a subjective cognitive complaint

23
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True or False:

MCI is less severe than Cognitive Impairment No Dementia

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False, MCI is more severe

24
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How are objective impairments evaluated in MCI?

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Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)

25
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Describe:

MMSE

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Mini-Mental State Examination: Simple Questions
* Greater than 18, less than 24 is indication of MCI

MCI: Mild Cognitive Impairment

26
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Describe:

MOCA

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Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Draw line connecting circles, name animals etc.
* More sophisticated task
* 25 or less is indication of MCI

MCI: Mild Cognitive Impairment

27
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How much is normal cognitive decline

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Very gradual (1% every year)

28
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How does cognitive decline gradually decline?

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Progresses to CIND and MCI, eventually Alzheimer’s disease and the loss of neurons is very rapid

29
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What do dark areas on an MRI mean?

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Loss of neural tissue

30
Q

What is necessary to maintain proper brain health?

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  • Exercise
  • Sleep
  • Social Life
31
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What does exercise promote?

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Neurogenesis (Neuron generation)

32
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What does exercise and neurogenesis support?

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Supports executive function

33
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How is executive function measured?

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Oculomotor task

34
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Describe:

Oculomotor task

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  • A dot is shown on the screen
  • A target is shown on the screen
  • Different tasks are performed (prosaccade and antisaccade)
35
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Define:

Prosaccade task
Antisaccade task

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  • Prosaccade task: Eye moves directly to target
  • Antisaccade task: Eye move opposite direction to the target
36
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True or False:

Prosaccade task is an executive function

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False, prosaccade tasks are not executive function

37
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True or False:

Inhibition of an antisaccade task is an executively demanding task

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False, inhibiting a PROSACCADE task is executively demanding task

38
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True or False:

Prosaccade reaction times are always less than antisaccade reaction

If true, list the reaction time and reason why this is

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True, around 0.75 seconds for prosaccade as inhibitory control is time consuming

39
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Lab Question:

In a group doing aerobic and resistance exercise for 6 months, both groups showed decrease in antisaccade reaction time. How is this shown? What does this prove?

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  • Oculomotor motor assessment: Decrease in antisaccade time
  • MOCA and MMSE: Increased performance
  • Conclusion: Exercise can improve mental function in people with MCI

MCI: Mild Cognitive Impairment

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