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18 Cards in this Set
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What is agnosia?
Damage to what area leads to this? |
When pt cannot recognize what they see
Visual association area or multimodal temporal association area |
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Damage to what area leads to agraphesthesia and astereognosis?
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Somatosensory association areas
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Damage to parietal multimodal association area leads to what?
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Deficits in attention -- neglect
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Mental Status Exam focuses on what areas of the cortex?
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Multimodal association areas
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Deficits in working memory or cognition can result from damage to which area?
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Dorsolateral prefrontal multimodal association area
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Contralateral neglect syndrome happens when there is a lesion where?
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Non-dominant (right, usually) hemisphere, parietal association area (above and behind ears)
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Someone with a dramatic change in affect or personality may have a lesion in which multimodal association area?
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Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
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What is the arcuate fasciculus?
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Fiber tract that connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas
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What is prosody?
What areas of the brain control this? |
Emotional content of language and inflections
Non-dominant hemisphere homolog to Broca's and Wernicke's areas (usually R hemisphere) |
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What is aphasia?
Damage to what areas produce this? |
Disorder of language use
Broca's or Wernicke's areas in dominant hemisphere (left, usually) |
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What is dysarthria?
Damage to what areas produces this? |
Disorder of speech articulation
Damage to outgoing pathway after corticocortical processing |
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What is conduction aphasia?
Damage to what leads to this? |
Misuse of words
Arcuate fasciculus (tract that connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas) |
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What is aprosodia?
Damage to what leads to this? |
Inability to put or understand inflections into words
Areas in non-dominant hemisphere corresponding to Broca's or Wernicke's areas |
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Damage to angular gyrus would lead to what?
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Alexia without agraphia (can write but not read what you wrote)
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Occlusion of what leads to contralateral movement and somatosensory deficits in the leg?
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ACA
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What three arteries off the internal carotid supply the internal capsule?
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Anterior choroidal ((supplies inferior internal capsule))
Medial striate off of ACA ((anterior limb of internal capsule, caudate head)) Lenticulostriate aa. off the MCA ((basal ganglia, posterior limb internal capsule)) PCA ((diencephalon, splenium of corpus callosum)) |
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What artery is the most common site of circle of Willis aneurysms and can lead to visual-field deficits?
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Anterior communicating artery (off off ACA off of internal carotid)
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CNIII palsy is caused by aneurysm of which artery (hint: part of the circle of Willis)?
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Posterior communicating artery off of the internal carotid
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