Regions of brain and Lesions

Question 1

Motor area of speech

Answer 1

Laterally in the frontal lobe. Broca’s area

Question 2

Arcuate fasciculus

Answer 2

connects brocas and wernickes

Question 3

Anterior Cerebral artery supplies what

Answer 3

Anteromedial surface of brain….motor and sensory to lower limbs

Question 4

Middle cerebral artery supplies

Answer 4

Brocas area, facial motor and sensory, hands motor and sensory

Question 5

PCA supplies

Answer 5

occipital lobe

Question 6

Broca’s aphasia

Answer 6

nonfluent aphasia with intact comprehension

Question 7

Wernicke’s

Answer 7

fluent with loss of comprehension

Question 8

Global

Answer 8

No comprehension or fluency

Question 9

Conductance

Answer 9

Can’t repeat but can comprehend and speak fluently

Question 10

Non-dominant Broca’s lesion leads to

Answer 10

Expressive dysprosody….can’t express emotion or inflection in speech

Question 11

Non-dominant Wernicke’s

Answer 11

can’t comprehend emotion or inflection

Question 12

Kluver Bucy

Answer 12

Hyperoral and hypersexual

AMYGDALA LESION

Question 13

Non-dominant parietal lobe

Answer 13

Completely ignore one side of the world

Question 14

Gerstmann Syndrome

Answer 14

Dominant Left Parietal lobe lesion at angular gyrus

• agraphia
• acalculia
• finger agnosia (can’t distinguish fingers)
• left and right disorientation

Question 15

2 sets of arteries that control the brain

Answer 15

2 internal carotids and 2 vertebrals

Question 16

Most common cause of lesion to mammillary bodies

Answer 16

Thiamine deficiency