Lobes

Question 1

What Lobe is the Precentral area located?

Answer 1

Frontal Lobe

Question 2

What is the precentral area main function?

Answer 2

-Primary Motor Cortex
-Volitional(Voluntary) Movement

Question 3

What is the premotor area(part of precentral) responsible for?

Answer 3

-Motor planning and praxis

Question 4

Lesion the frontal lobe produces what symptoms?

Answer 4

-Broca’s Aphasia(BEN)
-Contra-lateral Paresis and Paralysis
-Apraxia
-Memory deficits
-Unstable emotions

Question 5

What is postcentral gyrus responsible for?

Answer 5

-Primary Somatosensory Cortex(sensation)

Question 6

Where is the postcentral gyrus located?

Answer 6

Parietal lobe

Question 7

Lesion to the parietal lobe produces what symptoms?

Answer 7

-Loss of two-point discrimination
-Tactile agnosia(inability to recognize objects)
-Astereogenosis
-Taste impairment

Question 8

What is the main function of the temporal lobe?

Answer 8

-Primary Auditory cortex

Question 9

Lesion to the temporal lobe causes what symptoms?

Answer 9

-Fluent Aphasia(Wernicke’s area lesion)
-Impairment of learning and memory
-Profound memory loss of recent events

Question 10

Lesion to the Occipital lobe causes what symptoms?

Answer 10

-Contra-lateral homonymous hemianopsia
-Visual agnosia
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Question 10

Lesion to the Occipital lobe causes what symptoms?

Answer 10

-Contra-lateral homonymous hemianopsia
-Visual agnosia
-Perceptual impairments