Neurological Disorders

Question 0

Neglect is associated with damage to the ____

Answer 0

posterior parietal lobe

Question 1

Neglect is a visual disorder defined by

Answer 1

the inability to process and perceive stimuli on one side of the body

Question 2

Visual agnosia refers to the ….

Answer 2

inability to recognize objects, their pictorial representations or to draw/copy them

Question 3

Visual agnosia was first described in the ___

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1880s

Question 4

Anasognosia…

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Neglect that applies to the body- can manifest as denial of disability (as in right hand is paralyzed but the patient won’t recognize it)

Question 5

Visual agnosia is caused by a lesion in the

Answer 5

lateral occipital cortex

Question 6

Prosopagnosia refers to the

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inability to recognize faces

Question 7

Prosopagnosia was first recognized in ____

Answer 7

1947

Question 8

Prosopagnosia results from bilateral damage to the ____

Answer 8

inferior temporal lobe

Question 9

Face processing: The inferior occipital gyri is involved in the …..

Answer 9

early perception of facial features

Question 10

The superior temporal sulcus is involved in ….

Answer 10

the changeable aspects of faces - perception of eye gaze, expression and lip movement

Question 11

Lateral fusiform gyrus is involved in….

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Invariant aspects of faces - perception of unique identity

Question 12

Face recognition: Intraparietal sulcus is involved in…

Answer 12

Spatially directed attention

Question 13

Facial recognition (STS): auditory cortex is involved in the….

Answer 13

prelexical speech perception

Question 14

Facial recognition (STS): what three parts process emotion of faces?

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The amygdala, insula, and limbic system

Question 15

Facial recognition (LFG): The anterior temporal cortex

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personal identity, name, and biographical information

Question 16

What is Capgras syndrome?

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People believe friends and family have been replaced by imposters

Question 17

Madame M said she had 80 husbands. She had __ ___

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Capras Syndrome

Question 18

Capgras syndrome results from impaired connections between the ____ and the ____

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The visual areas of the temporal lobe (specifically the fusiform gyrus) and the amygdala

Question 19

Capgras syndrome is involved with which pathway?

Answer 19

The ventral “what” pathway

Question 20

Fregoli syndrome involves:

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the delusion that a persecutor has adopted many disguises - distinct people represent a single person intent on harming them

Question 21

Confabulation is defined as

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“honest lying”

Question 22

Confabulation is also associated with __

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Korsakoff’s syndrome (can be permanent)

Question 23

Korsakoff’s syndrome is associated with dysfunction in the ____

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prefrontal cortex (including the cingulate cortex)

Question 24

Anton-Babinski syndrome is a rare symptom of _____ in which ___

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symptom of cortical blindness where patients fail to accept they are blind - involves confabulation; visual imagery is received but cannot be interpreted

Question 25

Foreign accent syndrome results from damage to

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the left hemisphere of the brain - prerolandic motor cortex (BA 4), the frontal motor association cortex), and Broca’s area, or the striatum

Question 26

Wilson et al (2004) showed that listening to speech activates the same areas as

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speech production