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Lesion Locations Flashcards

1
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Apraxia

A

Unilateral lesion but Bilateral impairment

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Global Aphasia

A

Perisylvian area

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3
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Transcortical Motor Aphasia

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Left Frontal lobe

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Transcortical Sensory Aphasia

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Left Parietal Temporal or Temporal Occipital Area

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5
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Alexia

A

VWFA (Visual Word form Area)
and LV1 and selenium of corpus callosum

aka Left Ventral Temporal Occipital Cortex

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6
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Output Type Disorder

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Damage to Premotor Cortex.

Damage to Prefrontal Cortex.

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7
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Pick’s Disease

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Frontal Temporal Atrophy

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C.J.D

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Neuronal Damage

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9
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Alzheimer’s

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Loss of neurons or lower functioning of neurons

NF Tangles

Amyloid Plaques

APOE4 <– Genetic Factor

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Amnesia (General)

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DM Nucl. Thalamus

Mammillary Bodies

Medial Temporal Cortex
(Hippocampus, amygdala, and cortex around it. )

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Korsakoff’s Syndrome

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Bilateral damage of DM and MB

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12
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Left labectomy

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Reduction to Verbal Learning

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13
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Right labectomy

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Non Verbal Deficits

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Topograpic Disorder

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Parahippocampal gyrus; hippocampus

  • Right Medial Temporal
  • R/L Lingual
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15
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Constructive Disorder

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  • Unilateral Lesion
  • RH: Posterior
  • LH: Parietal
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Hemineglect

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Left Hemineglect: Right Parietal cortex

Usually frontal dorsal
Right cingulate gyrus

17
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Apraxia

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Unilateral; Bilateral deficits

18
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Oral Apraxia

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L Inferior Frontal

19
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Limb Apraxia

A

L Parietal

20
Q

Agnosia in general

A

Spare V1

21
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Appreceptive Agnosia

A

Spares V1/ bilateral occipital

LOTR

22
Q

Stimultagnosia

A

Dorsal: Bilateral Parietal Occipital

Ventral: Left Ventral Temporal-occipital

23
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Visual Object Agnosia

A

Bilateral Lateral temporal occipital

24
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Propapagnosia

A

Ventralmedial temporal-occipital
(fusiform gyrus)
Parahippocampal

25
Q

Word Deafness

A

Bilateral Anterior Superior Temporal gyrus

Uni-LH Wernikes

26
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Broca’s Aphasia

A

Broadmann 44 and 45

27
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Wernikes Aphasia

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Broadman 22

28
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Conductive Aphasia

A

left Parietal (supra marginal gyrus)

29
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Anomia

A

Left arcuate fasciculate gyrus

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