Neurology

Question 1

Clinical features of frontal lobe lesions

Answer 1

Broca’s (expressive dysphasia)
Personality changes with disinhibition
Anosmia
Difficulty generating lists
Perseveration

Question 2

Clinical features of parietal lobe lesions

Answer 2

Gesterman’s syndrome
Sensory innatention
Apraxia (disorder of planning and executing motor functions)
Asterognosis (tactile agnosia)
Inferior homonymous quadrantanopia

Question 3

Clinical features of temporal lobe lesions

Answer 3

Wernicke’s (receptive) dysphasia (non-sensical + inappropriate word substitutions)
Auditory agnosia
Prosopagnosia (cannot recognise faces)
Superior homonymous quadrantanopia

Question 4

Clinical features of occipital lobe lesions

Answer 4

Homonymous hemianopia with macular sparing
Cortical blindness
Visual agnosia

Question 5

Gesterman’s syndrome

Answer 5

Lesion in the dominant parietal lobe

Acalculia
Alexia (cannot recognise written words)
Finger agnosia (cannot name/distinguish fingers)
L/R disorientation

Question 6

What is alexia?

Answer 6

Cannot read
Corpus callosum/parietal lobe pathology

Question 7

What is conduction aphasia?

Answer 7

Word finding difficulty and repeating phrases
Arcuate fasciculus pathology (connects Broca’s and Wernike’s)

Question 8

What is Broca’s area involved in?

Answer 8

Production of language

Question 9

What is Wernike’s area involved in?

Answer 9

Comprehension