Lesson 11: Cerebrum Flashcards
What connects Wernicke to Broca?
Arcuate fibres
What connects the frontal lobe to the temporal lobe?
Uncinate fasciculus
What connects the frontal lobe with the occipital and temporal?
Longitudinal fasciculus
What supplies the internal capsule? What happens with a stroke to these branches?
The middle cerebral artery’s striate branches.
Upper and lower body hemiparesis
What part of the frontal lobe is responsible for executive functioning, and what part is responsible for goals and reward?
EF: anterolateral
Reward: inferior frontal lobe
What is the role of Brodmann’s 6?
Premotor cortex - timing and smoothness of motor skills
What is the role of Brodmann’s 4?
Initiation of voluntary movements with precise and skilled movements
What is the role of the secondary motor area? Where is it located?
4
Initiation of movements and speech
What is affected in a lesion to the angular/supramarginal gyrus?
Writing, reading and calculation difficulties
What is affected in a lesion in the non-dominant hemisphere?
Profound neglect / anosognosia
What is Brodmann’s 40?
The supramarginal gyrus
Where is the primary auditory cortex?
41 and 42
Where is the secondary auditory cortex?
Anterior 22
Where is language association cortex?
Posterior 22 & 39
Where is Broca’s area?
44 and 45
