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Neuro Disorders Due To Lesions In Specific Parts Flashcards

1
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Anger and hostility

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Left dorsofrontal

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Anxiety and depression

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R orbitofrontal

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Apathy and lack of initiative

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Dorsolateral frontal

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Facetious & socially inappropriate state

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Orbital and medial frontal

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5
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Greatets cognitive-intellectual deficits

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Dorsolateral prefrontal

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6
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Greatest personality, mood and behavioral changes

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Medial orbitofrontal

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7
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Witzelsucht or moria

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Inferofrontal

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Pathological collecting behavior/ hoarding

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Medial frontal and cingulate gyri

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Compulsive behavior, combativeness and extreme insomnia

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Caudate-frontal connections

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Hyperactivity syndrome or organic driveness seen in children who survived encephalitis lethargica

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Dorsolateral frontal

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11
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Test for kinetic limb apraxia

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3-step hand posture test of Luria

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Reduced attention to c/l visual environment

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FEF

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13
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Upper homonymous quadrantanopsia

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Geniculocalcarine pathway in the central and posterior parts of temporal lobe;

Meyer’s loop

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14
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Kluver Bucy syndrome

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B/l temporal lobes

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15
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Cortical or central deafness

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B/l transverse gyri of Heschl

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16
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Wernicke’s aphasia

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L superotemporal region

Broca 41, 42

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Auditory agnosia

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Secondary or unimodal association zones of auditory corte

BA 22 and part of BA 21

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18
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Amusia

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Right > left middle temporal gyrus

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19
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Impaired recognition of melody and of harmony

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Right auditory cortex

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20
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Word deafness

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Left temporal lobe

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21
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Vestibular disturbances

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Superior and posterior temporal lobe, posterior to primary auditory cortex

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22
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Korsakoff amnesic state

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Medial temporal lobes

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23
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Olfactory hallucinations +/- intellectual aura

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= Uncinate fits

Uncus or medial part of temporal lobe

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Olfaction areas

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Posterior orbitofrontal
Subcallosal
Anterior temporal
Insular cortex

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25
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Taste sensation and alimentary function

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Posterior insular area

26
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Amnesic dysnomia - defect in retrieval of words

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Large inferolateral part of dominant temporal lobe

27
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Prosopagnosia

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Bilateral ventromedial occipitotemporal regions including the inferior occipital or midfusiform gyri

Or

Unilateral lesion, always on the right

28
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Touch, pressure, pain, thermal, vibratory & position sense are lost on 1 side of the body or in 1 limb

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Thalamic lesion and not of a parietal unless a large, acute lesion

29
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Gerstmann syndrome

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Left dominant inferior parietal lobule, particularly the angular gyrusbor subjacent white matter of left hemisphere

30
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Visual neglect

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Right posterior inferior parietal lobe - MCA

Or

Posterior medial temporal lobe - PCA

31
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Severe left sided visual neglect

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Right angular gyrus - MCA

32
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Balint syndrome

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Bilateral disorder of parietal lobes

Or

BA 19 & 7 of parietooccipital regions

33
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Topographagnosia

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White mattter deepbto superior and inferior parietal lobes

34
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Auditory neglect

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Right superior lobule of parietal region

35
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Loss of ability to identify objects

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Bilateral temporal visual zones

36
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Loss of ability to locate objects

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Posterior parietal regions

37
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T/F

Optokinetic responses are usually spared in hemianopic deficits of occipital origin

38
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Anton syndrome

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Visual anosognosia

Beyond stiate cortex to involve visual association areas

39
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Cortical blindness

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Bilateral BA 17

40
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Visual illusion of movement

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Occipital lobes or posterior temporal lobe

41
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Illusion of tilting of environment or upside-down vision

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Parieto-occipital regions or

Vestibular system

42
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Elementary visual hallucinations

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Calcarine cortex - occipital

43
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Complex visual hallucinations

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Visual association areas or their connections with temporal lobes

44
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Peduncular hallucinosis of Lhermitte

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Ischemia in territories of PCA

45
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Environmental agnosia

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Right or bilateral medial temporooccipital regions

46
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Central achromatopsia + prosopagnosia

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Inferomedial, occipital and temporal and lowermost of striate cortex or optic radiation

47
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Color anomia

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Medial part of left hemisphere at junction of occipital and temporal lobes just below the splenium of corpus callosum

48
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Visual simultagnosia

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Inferolateral dominant occipital lobe (BA 18)

49
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Spelling dyslexia plus simultagnosia

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Inferior left occipital lobe

Or

Bilateral superior occipital association cortices

50
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Visual part of disconnection syndrome

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Posterioe part of corpus callosum or splenium

51
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Conduction aphasia

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Central aphasia

Arcuate fasciculus or external capsule or subcortical white matter

52
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Ssympathetic apraxia in Broca’s aphasia

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Fibers connecting the left and right motor association cortices, more anterior partsvof corpus callosum or subcortical white matter underlying broca’s area and contiguous frontal cortex

53
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Pure word deafness

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Left temporal spanning Wernicke’s area

Or
Auditory fibers crossing corpus callosum fr c/l side

Or
Bilateral lesions of auditory cortex

54
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Akinetic mutism

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Bilateral ventromedial frontal regions

Or
Fronto-diencephali connections

55
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Lack of motivation plus bradykinesia

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Bipallidal lesion

56
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Lack of motivation plus bradyphrenia

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Bifrontal lesions

57
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Reduced attention to c/l visual environment

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Frontal eye field

58
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Bowel and bladder incontinence

Or
Frequency & urgency of urination

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Either posterior part of superior frontal gyrus, anterior cingulate gyrus and intervening white matter

59
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Gait ataxia or gait apraxia

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Basal ganglia and its connections with the frontal lobes

60
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Pseudobulbar palsy, tetraparesis

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Bilateral motor cortices

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