Vocab 3

Question 1

What is inability to identify/recognize own face or face of others?

• Lesion of face region of infertemporal cortex
• Inability to perceive face structure well enough to mate the face to memories of previously seen face

Answer 1

Prosopagnosia

Question 2

What is damage to both Boca’s and Wernicke’s areas and their connections?

• Impairment in both expression and comprehension of language.
• May be able to respond with automatic well-learned phrases, simple gestures or varying intonation of voice

Answer 2

Global aphasia

Question 3

What is the partial or complete loss of the sense of smell.

Answer 3

Anosmia

Question 4

What is well-learned motor tasks?

-Modulation and coordination of motor activity without conscious control

Answer 4

Procedural learning

Question 5

What is unwanted, unregulated movements?

-Almost constant, rapid movements of face, tongue and/or distal limbs

Answer 5

Chorea

hyperkinetic disorder

Question 6

What is slow, writhing movements often most pronounced in hands?

Answer 6

Athetosis

Question 7

What is too much (constant/excessive) unregulated movement?

Answer 7

Hyperkinesis

Question 8

What is too little (little movement)

Answer 8

Hypokinesia

Question 9

What is wild, flailing movements or a constant rotatory movement of one arm or leg usually due to a lesion in the contralateral STN

Answer 9

Ballismus

hyperkinetic disorder

Question 10

What is non-progressive movement disorder with sustained muscle contractions causing abnormal postures and twisting, repetitive movements

• Often focal
• Usually due to overactivity of the indirect pathway but sill considered a hyperkinetic disorder

Answer 10

Dystonia

hyperkinetic disorder

Question 11

What is symptoms related to decreased drive to move and decreased spontaneous movement?

• Death of dopaminergic cells
• Stopped posture
• Masked face
• Lace of facial expression
• Tend to fall backwards
• Shuffling gait

Answer 11

Parkinson Disease

hypokinesia disorder

Question 12

What is slowness of movement. Difficulty initiating movement?

Answer 12

Bradykinesia

Question 13

What is pill-rolling?

• Lessen with movement and in sleep
• Worse with emotional stress

Answer 13

Resting tremors

Question 14

What is increased tone?

Answer 14

Rigidity

Question 15

What kind of memory can be expressed in words?

• Conscious recall
• Working and short term memory

Answer 15

Declarative/explicit (memory)

Question 16

A type of long-term memory involving the capacity to recall words, concepts, or numbers, which is essential for the use and understanding of language.

Answer 16

Sematic memory

Question 17

What kind of memory is inner diary of life events, highly connected to emotions?

Answer 17

Episodic memory

Question 18

What kind of memory can’t be expressed in words?

• Recall may not be conscious
• it flows effortlessly in our actions

Answer 18

Implicit/non-declarative (memory)

Question 19

What kind of memory is short term?

• Focus on task at hand
• Hold something in “the front of your mind”
• 3-4 bits of information
• Requires DLPFC, parietotemportal association area and their connections

Answer 19

Working memory

Question 20

What is remember intended actions and rember to do something in the future - Declarative/explicit (memory)?

Answer 20

Prospective memory