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Ardila- Ch.22- Cerebral Cortex
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12/04/2008

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Occipital Lobe and Cerebellum are separated by the...
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Tentorium (extension of the Dura)
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extension of the medulla is the...
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spinal cord
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the ________ ________ divides the frontal and parietal lobes
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central sulcus
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the ___________ ____________ separates the occipital and the parietal lobes
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parietoccipital sulcus
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cortex is ____ mm. thick
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~5-7 mm.
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the cortex is gray or white matter?
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gray
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The 6 layers of the cortex:
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1. Molecular Layer
2. External granular layer
3. external pyramidal layer
4. internal granular layer
5. internal pyramidal layer
6. multiform layer
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the 5th layer, the internal pyramidal layer is important because...
Definition
it represents the origin of the pyramidal system and it contains giant pyramidal neurons
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4 motor areas of the brain are the...
Definition
1. cortical system
2. pyramidal system
3. basal ganglia
4. cerebellum
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executive dysfunction is
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observed disturbances of executive functioning due to damage in the prefrontal cortex
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3 major symptoms of executive dysfunction are impairments in:
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1. abstract reasoning
2. hypothesis testing
3. modulation of cognition (aka metacognition)
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some things that fall under the "umbrella term" of executive function...
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filter interference, engage in goal directed behaviors, anticipate consequences of one's actions, mental flexibility, etc.
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agnosia
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inability to recognize people or objects with intact visual acuity - visual perceptual disturbances
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apperceptive visual agnosia
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can't copy pictures but can draw them from memory
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associative visual agnosia
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person can copy pictures but cannot recognize what the object is
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prosopagnosia
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inability to recognize faces
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auditory agnosia
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inability to recognize specific sounds in the context of intact hearing
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pure word deafness
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agnosia for verbal information
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cortical deafness
Definition
patients who don't respond to any auditory information when hearing is intact
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somatosensory agnosia
Definition
difficulty perceiving objects through tactile stimulation
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aphasia
Definition
loss or impairment of language production or comprehension due to brain pathology
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acalculia
Definition
acquired inability to perform mathematical calculations
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Anton's syndrome
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denial of cortical blindness
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apraxia
Definition
inability to carry out purposeful movements in the absence of paralysis or paresis
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3 types of apraxia
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1. kinetic
2. ideomotor
3. ideational (posterior)
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ideomotor apraxia
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subtypes: face (oral, ocular), limb axial
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motor apraxia
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difficulty in the sequencing and execution of movements
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ideational apraxia
Definition
can't perform a series of acts but can perform the individual acts (may do things in the wrong order)
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buccofacial (oral) apraxia
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difficulties performing skilled movements with the lips, face, tongue, larynx, or pharynx
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verbal apraxia
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disturbance in motor planning or programing of sequential movements for volitional speech production
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spacial neglect
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can perceive visual information but behaves as if it didn't exist - may refuse to accept that their limbs don't belong to them
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constructional deficits
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patient has difficulty with construction abilities that require spatial abilities (drawing, copying or from command, assembling 2 and 3 dimensional objects)
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hippocampus
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involved in memory - located in the mesial aspect of the temporal lobe
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damage to hippocampus results in
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amnesia
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3 processes in memory
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encoding, storage, retrieval
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implicit (non-declarative memory)
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procedural memory.. how to do things, skills, habits, etc.
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explicit (declarative memory)
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2 types: semantic - world knowledge, related to language. episodic - fact and source, how things work.
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source amnesia
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difficulty remembering where and when a particular memory was acquired - related with frontal lobe damage
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diencephalic amnesia
Definition
damage to the thalamus and hypothalamus
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retrograde amnesia
Definition
deficit in recalling events that happened before the onset of the disorder
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anterograde amnesia
Definition
deficit in learning after the onset of the disorder
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dementia
Definition
syndrome - impaired intellectual functioning that interferes with normal activities and relationships - memory loss is a common symptom - diagnosed only if 2 or more brain functions are impaired (ie: memory and language)
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some diseases that can cause dementia
Definition
alzheimer's, huntington's disease, traumatic dementia, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia
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cortical dementias
Definition
arise from a disorder affecting the cerebral cortex - alzheimer's is the most common - severe memory deficit with other cognitive impairments
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subcortical dementias
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arise from damage to the basal ganglia - (huntington's and aids dementia complex) show changes in their personality and attention span, and their thinking slows down
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2 aspects of neglect
Definition
spatial and body
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hemiasomatognosia
Definition
agnosia on half of the body
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Balint syndrome
Definition
3 characteristics -
1. paralysis of gaze (can't look into the peripheral field)
2. optic ataxia
3. central fixation of visual attention (simultanagnosia)
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