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Clinical Neuroscience

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  • Cognitive symptoms
  • Treatments have cognitive side-effects
  • Cognitive risk and protective factors for disorders
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Neurovascular Units

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The brain is intimately linked to the rest of the body
- Neurons, glia and blood vessels work together in the brain
- Anything that influences one part of the neurovascular unit will influence the others
- Brain activity and blood flow are intimately linked
- The brain pulses with blood flow
- FMRI

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3 Types of Congenital Disorders

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  1. Malformative Lesions
  2. Destructive Lesions
  3. Migrational Lesions
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Malformative Lesions

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The brain didn’t form in the right structure
- E.g. Callosal dysgenesis

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Destructive Lesions

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Damage caused by infection, trauma etc.

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Migrational Lesions

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Structural abnormalities caused by incorrect cell migrations during development

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2 Types of Acquired Brain Injury

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  1. Traumatic
  2. Non-traumatic
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Traumatic Brain Injury

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EXTERNAL events that damage the brain
- E.g. car crash, violence, sports injuries etc

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Non-traumatic Brain Injury

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INTERNAL events that damage the brain
E.g. stroke, cancer, infection, anoxia (lack of oxygen) etc

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Neurodegenerative Diseases

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  • Alzheimer’s
  • Parkinson’s
  • Multiple sclerosis
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Callosal Agenesis/Dysgenesis

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A complete absence of corpus callosum in the brain, or often, it is much smaller than in most people

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Callosal Dysgenesis: Cognitive
Impairments

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  • Worse social communication and emotion recognition
  • Slower processing speed
  • Relatively poor complex problem solving
  • But, IQ may be in the normal range
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Corpus Collosum

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Connects the two hemispheres
- Homotopic organization: Cortical areas in one hemisphere are connected to the same area in the other hemisphere

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Commissures

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Connections between hemispheres

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Why cognitive impairments are not much more obvious in Callosal Dysgenesis?

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The corpus callosum is not the only connection between the hemispheres
- When the largest doesn’t develop correctly
- It’s likely that some of the others adapt to carry addition inter- hemispheric information

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Callosal Dysgenesis: EF

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In fMRI
- Easy problem-solving tasks: Normal
- Complex tasks: Abnormal

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Stroke

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  • Interruption to blood flow long enough
  • To cause tissue damage
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2 Types of Stroke

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  • Hemorrhagic
  • Ischemic
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Hemorrhagic Stroke

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Blood vessel bleeds into the brain

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Ischemic Stroke

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A vessel becomes blocked and tissue is starved of blood

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3 Main Arteries to the Brain

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  1. Anterior cerebral artery
  2. Middle cerebral artery
  3. Posterior cerebral artery
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Anterior Cerebral Artery

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Medial Fronto-Parietal

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Middle Cerebral Artery

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  • Lateral Fronto-Parietal
  • Dorsal Temporal
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Posterior Cerebral Artery

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  • Lateral Parietal
  • Ventral Temporal
  • Occipital
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Optic Ataxia
‘How’ processing - The inability to accurately point to or reach for objects under visual guidance
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Stroke in which cerebral artery would cause optic ataxia?
Posterior cerebral artery stroke
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Visual Agnosia
‘What’ processing - A difficulty in recognizing objects
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Stroke in which cerebral artery would cause visual agnosia?
Posterior cerebral artery stroke
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Prosopagnosia
The inability to recognize faces
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Stroke in which cerebral artery would cause prosopagnosia?
Posterior cerebral artery stroke
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Alexia
The inability to comprehend written or printed words - Can't read
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Stroke in which cerebral artery would cause alexia?
Posterior cerebral artery stroke
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Broca’s area & Wernicke’s areas
Language processing - Left hemisphere
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Aphasia
Broca’s area & Wernicke’s areas at the left hemisphere - Sara Scott
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Stroke in which cerebral artery would cause aphasia?
Left middle cerebral artery stroke
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Hemispatial Neglect
Ignore one side of the object
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Stroke in which cerebral artery would cause Hemispatial Neglect?
Right middle cerebral artery stroke
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Stroke in which cerebral artery would cause dysexecutive syndrome?
Anterior cerebral artery stroke
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Patient K.C., H.M., & E.P.
Hippocampal damage - Amnesia - Declarative memory impaired - Non-declarative memory intact: emotion or feeling of trust
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Stroke in which cerebral artery could damage the hippocampus?
Posterior cerebral artery stroke
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Bilateral Damage
Usually more severe than unilateral damage
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Alzheimer's Disease
Memory loss - Loss of brain tissue - The sulci and ventricles are substantially enlarged - Hippocampus is much affected - Loss of acetylcholine -> hippocampus
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Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Test of dementia - No EF, visuospatial
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MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Test of dementia - EF, visuospatial
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Parkinson’s Disease
- An idiopathic disorder: Occurs without an obvious cause - Substantia nigra loss 1. Impaired motor loops - Akinesia: Slower and smaller movements - Rigidity - Tremor and gait freezing 2. Impaired executive loops 3. Impaired motivational loops - Clinical apathy
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Substantia Nigra
- A part of the midbrain - It is black because it contains cells that produce dopamine - To basal ganglia and striatum
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Basal Ganglia
Corticostriatal loops between striatum and the cortex. - Several interconnected areas of grey matter - Without the dopamine input, the basal ganglia cannot function well
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Treatment of Parkinson’s
Aims to restore the normal activity of the corticostriatal circuits. 1. Dopamine medication - Effective - But causes disabling side effects with long-term use 2. Deep-brain stimulators - Basal ganglia. - Improves motor function - A mixed effect on cognition, some abilities become worse
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Schizophrenia
- Negative symptoms: Avolition and lack of motivation - Positive symptoms: Delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder - Onset between ages 20 and 40 - Lifelong disability - Ventricles are bigger than healthy population
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Cognitive Neuropsychology
Disease that causes specific impairments is useful in cognitive psychology
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Dissociation
Cognitive process is impaired caused by a disease - Or the study of brain parts that responsible for cognitive abilities from diseases
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Problem with Dissociation Method
If a patient fails Task A after brain damage, there could be lots of explanations for it
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Double Dissociation Method
Compare 2 patients with 2 different diseases - Who has the exact opposite pattern of task performance - The cognitive performance appear to be separate processes - Provides strong evidence for the modularity of cognitive functions
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Modularity of Cognitive Functions
A common way to view the mind in cognitive psychology - In fact, that the mind is modular is a basic assumption of cognitive neuropsychology

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