Brain Damage Effects

Question 1

What does Biofeedback Therapy work to decrease?

Answer 1

Sympathetic nervous system response

Question 2

Quadriplegia occurs due to damage to the spine severed between which cervical vertebrae?

Answer 2

Cervical 1-5

Question 3

Paraplegia occurs due to severing the spine after which cervical vertebrae?

Answer 3

Cervical 6/7

Question 4

What is Paresis?

Answer 4

Muscle weakness but not loss of motor control

Question 5

Aphasias are difficulties in producing speech that occur due to damage in which hemisphere?

Answer 5

Left hemisphere

Question 6

Broca’s Aphasia is characterized by what type of speech?

Answer 6

Effortful, telegraphic, dysprosodic

Question 7

Wernicke’s Aphasia primarily affects what ability?

Answer 7

Understanding speech

Question 8

What is Apraxia?

Answer 8

Inability to perform a task or movement when asked

Question 9

Ataxia results in what type of movement?

Answer 9

Poor muscle control resulting in clumsy movements

Question 10

What does Agnosia refer to?

Answer 10

Difficulty recognizing items, individuals, sounds

Question 11

Acalculia/dyscalculia are difficulties in processing what?

Answer 11

Numbers and performing calculations

Question 12

What is Agraphia/Dysgraphia?

Answer 12

Inability to write

Question 13

Bradykinesia is characterized by what?

Answer 13

Slowed movement

Question 14

Choreiform Movements are described as what type of movements?

Answer 14

Jerky, irregular, unwanted movements

Question 15

What are the four components of Gertmann’s Syndrome?

Answer 15

• Acalculia
• Agraphia
• Left-right disorientation
• Finger agnosia

Question 16

Who conducted the heart experiment assessing split brain subjects?

Answer 16

Roger Sperry

Question 17

Kluver Bucy Syndrome results from the absence of which brain structure?

Answer 17

Amygdala

Question 18

Huntington’s disease is characterized by what type of movements?

Answer 18

Choreiform movements

Question 19

Parkinson’s disease involves degeneration of what type of neurons?

Answer 19

Dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra

Question 20

Left Hemisphere Damage can lead to difficulties in which areas?

Answer 20

• Language
• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Right side of the body

Question 21

Right Hemisphere Damage can result in which condition?

Answer 21

Left-side hemineglect

Question 22

Frontal Lobe Injury can lead to changes in which areas?

Answer 22

• Personality
• Problem solving/planning
• Language issues (Broca’s aphasia)

Question 23

What are the effects of Parietal Lobe Injury?

Answer 23

• Anomia
• Difficulties differentiating left from right
• Hand-Eye coordination issues

Question 24

Temporal Lobe Damage can affect which functions?

Answer 24

• Aggression
• Sexual behaviour
• Memory difficulties

Question 25

Occipital Lobe Damage leads to difficulties in recognizing what?

Answer 25

* Drawn images * Naming colours * Recognizing written words

Question 26

Thalamus abnormalities are associated with which condition?

Answer 26

Schizophrenia

Question 27

Damage to the hypothalamus can lead to which syndrome?

Answer 27

Kallman syndrome

Question 28

Damage to the Amygdala can reduce what?

Answer 28

Aggression

Question 29

Damage to the Septum can increase what?

Answer 29

Aggression/rage syndrome

Question 30

What does CNS stand for?

Answer 30

Central nervous system

Question 31

What does PNS stand for?

Answer 31

Peripheral nervous system

Question 32

The SCN is responsible for regulating what?

Answer 32

Sleep-wake cycles