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Optic ataxia Flashcards

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IMAGE ON LECTURE SLIDES

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IMAGE ON LECTURE SLIDES

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What area is primary motor cortex

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Broddmans area 4

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main functions of BA4 (?/3)

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  • receives projections from PMC and Somatosensory area 1
  • projects to spinal chord
  • most commands delivered from spinal chord to muscle
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Pre motor cortex areas

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BA 6 &8

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BA 6 & 8 motive (?/2)

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  • projects to spinal chord and M1 (voluntary moment)
  • recieves from PFC, PPC and M!
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PPC

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posterior prefrontal crotex

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PFC

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prefrontal cotex

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M1

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controls voluntary movement

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BA6 split to 2

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Dorsal area 6 and Ventral area 6

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Dorsal area 6

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responsible for coding of reaching and arbitray responses to stimuli. Its subset is SMA

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SMA

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Supplementary motor area - sequences movements

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Ventral area 6

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responsible for coding of grasping and Brocas area (BA 44,45)

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Brocas area

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responsible for Vocal musculature

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Area 8 (FEF)

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Codes voluntary eye movement - frontal eye fields

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Other areas of the motor brain - list them

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Cerebellum, Basal ganglia, Left IPL, PFC, PPC

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Cerebellum

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timing, coordination and learning

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Basal ganglia

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force profuction and kinematics.

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Left IPL

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inferior parietal lobule - Praxis (Praxis refers to the process by which a skill is enacted or the performance of an action).

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PFC (motor purpose)

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long-planning, decision making

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PPC (motor purpose)

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eye movements, limb movements and attention

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Visual Brain areas

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BA 17 (v1), BA 18(v2), BA19 (other secondary visual areas).
subcortical areas such as tegmentum, superior colliculus,etc.

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Visual areas commonality

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Cortical visual areas project largely to the
temporal and parietal lobes

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Visual brain (2) - other areas

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Middle and inferior temporal cortex area also visual.

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Visual brain purpose

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Responsible for visual recognition processes Eg faces objects and patterns.

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Visual brain projects to…

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Parietal lobe.

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Parietal lobes areas

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split into anterior somatosensory zone (1-3, 43).
Posterior zone (5,7,39,40)

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PL pathways

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5 main pathways of the PL

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Parietal lobe

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BA 1-3 recieves special inputs from the spinal chord.

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Anatomy of the parietal lobes (1)

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BA 5 recieves input from BA1-3 and outputs to M1 and PMC

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Anatomy of the parietal lobes (2)

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Anterior BA7 recieves input from BA5, M1, PMC and area 39 - outputs to M1 and PMC.

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Anatomy of parietal lobes 3

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Posterior BA7 recieves visual, somaesthetic, proprioceptive, auditory, vestibular, oculomotor and cingulate inputs

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somaesthetic

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Another word for somatosensory

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proprioceptive

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the sense that provides information about the spatial position and movement of different body parts in relation to each other and the environment

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vestibular

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relates to vestibular system, balance from inner ear

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oculomotor

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relating to eye movemetns

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Cingulate

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an extensive area of the limbic system that plays a key role in pain processing, particularly in the affective-motivational aspects

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Anatomy of parietal lobes (4)

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Posterior PL is interconnected with prefrontal cortex, especially within area 46 - both PPL and PFC project to the same areas of the Temp. lobe.

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Theory of parietal lobe functions

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Anterior zone largely connected with somatosensation - intergrates it with visual information and lesser so, but still other senses.

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Spatial processing

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Both the anterior and posterior PL zones play a large role in spatial processing.

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Why is spatial processing important in APL and PPL

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1) object recognition
2) navigation
3) Visuomotor processing - where vision meets somatosensation shows visually guided movements

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somatosensory symptoms of parietal lobe lesions *01

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Primary Dmg to BA 1-3 and secondary BA 5 somatosensory cortex

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*01 How this effects the body (dmg to BA 1-3 and 5)

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problems with proprioception and tactile perception. This can also lead to afferent paresis in fingers
May cause astereognosis (touch recognition) and anasognosia.

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Symptoms of PPC damage

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Dmg in wernickes area; Wernickes aphasia. can cause problems in reading and writing

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Symptoms of PPC damage (2)

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left right dsicrimination.

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left right discrimination.

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Memory for ‘left’ vs.
‘right’ is disturbed
following lesions of left IPL

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Dyscalculia

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An inability to do calculations mentally

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Dyscalculia causes

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Incapability to do basic math -

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right PL dmg

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can cause spatial cognition

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Unilateral neglect caused by …

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dmg to IPL and adjacent regions

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Object recognition who

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(warrington and taylor 1973)

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Object recognition (warrington and taylor 1973) what

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showed that patients with right
PL damage could recognise an
object viewed canonically, but
not when presented noncanonically

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Object recognition support

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dmg in right pl causing object recogniton supports right pl is used in spatial manipulations of images

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Balints syndrome

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Balint 1909 had a case with bilateral PPC lesion - intact visual, object recognition and usage but faced
- neglect
- simultagnosia
- optic ataxia

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simultagnosia

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when his attention was directed
towards an object, he did not notice other objects
without prompting from the examiner

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Optic ataxia

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a severe deficit in reaching under visual guidance

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optic ataxia associarions

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Cannot be explained by elementary
visuoperceptual, attentional, proprioceptive, or
motor deficits.
Associated with lesions around and superior to
the intraparietal sulcus

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problem with optic ataxia

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Rarely studied (about 50 reported cases to date)
because symptoms are often subtle. not hemispherical

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the fact that its not hemispherical means

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it is an older evolutionary function

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histoical cases

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Crougneau (1884)
Balint (1909)

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Crougneau (1884)

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first to decribe misreaching behaviour after PPC dmg

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Balint

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patient innaccurate in reaching with one hand in one visual field.
The problem is not simple as it affecrts one side not both

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Balint…
The problem is not simple as it affecrts one side not both… meaning

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not a simple motor or visuoperceptual or attentional problem. Therefore it must be a visuomotor system

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The Perenin and Vighetto studies

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Largest reports of optic ataxia came from Perenin and Vighetto in 1983.
Found several patients with OA.
Testes on pointing to targets in periphal and posting their hand in a slot..

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Historical studies (Perenin and Vighetto 1983)

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Pointinf error are more common in VF contralateral to the lesion and to more strongly affect the contrahand.

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Posting errors were of three main types
(Perenin and Vighetto 1983)

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1) Misoriented hand to opening
2) missed hole or board entirely
3) sometimes misshaped hand

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Follow up to Perenin and Vighetto (1988)

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found patients much improved on both tasks though some errors still occurred

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Deficits in optic ataxia (1)

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  • pointing to targets in the periphery
    (fixate central location, point to a peripheral target)
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Deficits in optic ataxia (2)

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  • posting hand in slot
    (slot in variour orientations, also in visual periphery).
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Deficits in optic ataxia (3)

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  • grasping (Jakobson et al 1991).
    time course of grip aperture is affected
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Deficits in optic ataxia (4) - track

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manual tracking , target oves about at random must track target with finger

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Mediating factors

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  • Fixation of the target
  • practice or familiatity
  • previews
  • visual feedback
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mediating factors (1) - Fixation of the target

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almost all OA patients can point to target they fixate on

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mediating factors (2) - practice or familiatity

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improves performance, for example Jeannerod 1995, the patient AT lipstick study.

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mediating factors (3) - previews

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when the target is viewed prior to onset of the movement, OA patients improve

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mediating factors (4) - visual feedback

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does not improve OA performance (can in fact make it worse)

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Theory of OA - Visuomotor

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clearly a result of dmg to PPC, it is dissociable from visuoperceptual, motor, praxic, attentional disorders. Shows problems with visuomotor processing

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Four explanations for OA

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1) Visuomotor transformation Hypo.
2) Online control Hypo.
3) Attentional Deficit Hypo.
4) Perception Hypo.

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Visuomotor transformation Hypo (1)

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OA shows problem with tranforming visual input to motor outputs

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Visuomotor transformation Hypo. (2)

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Visual input arrives in retinocentric coordinates, motor output uses other body centred coordinates (eg hand centred)

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Visuomotor transformation hypo (3)

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OA patients represent the other half of a double dissociation with visual agnosia - such as patient DF, severely damaged perceptions but relatively intact, visuomotor performance

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Visuomotor transformation Hypo. (4) - DF

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DF can post her hand in a slot but cannot rotate a card to match the slots orientation.
DA patients have the DF impaired visuomotor guidance with relatively intact perceptions

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