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Confined to the precentral gyrus of the frontal lobes

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Area 4

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No other single area contributes more fibers to the pyramidal system than does this

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Precentral gurus…Area 4

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Voluntary motor initiation especially in the distal extremities

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Area 4

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Voluntary motor initiation in the facial and oral musculature

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Area 4

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Only area to contain the Giant Pyramidal (Betz) Cells

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Area 4

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Contain well developed projection laminae (V and VI)

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Area 4 and 123

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Sends projections to the basal ganglia, pontine nuclei, reticular formations, red nucleus, superior colliculus, vestibular and inferior olivary nuclei as well as all brainstem nuclei

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Area 4

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Primary motor cortex

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Area 4

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9
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Post central gurus

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Area 123

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Somesthetic cortex

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Area 123

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Pain, thermal, deep touch, light touch, vibratory and kinesthetic input

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Area 123

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Integrates conscious sensation

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Area123

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13
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Premotor cortex

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Area 6 and 8

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14
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Subtly contributes pyramidal fibers to the voluntary motor initiating pathways

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Area 123

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15
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Located just in front of area 4

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Area 6 and 8

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Good motor initiating centers contributing fibers directly and indirectly to the pyramidal system

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Areas 6 and 8

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Influences the proximal portions of our extremities

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Area 6

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18
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Initiates voluntary movement of our eyes

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Area 8

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19
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Prefrontal region

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Area 9 10 11 12

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20
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Prefrontal cortex

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Area 9 10 11 12

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Anterior restraint most parts of the frontal lobe

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Area 9 10 11 12

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Newest of the neopallial structures

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Area 9 10 11 12

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Associated with laminate II and III ( associative cortex)

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Area 9 10 11 12

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Greatest elaboration of thought occurs

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Area 9 10 11 12

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Abstract reasoning, imaginative, emotional response
Area 9 10 11 12
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Location of prefrontal lobotomy
Area9 10 11 12
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American Dr. Of prefrontal lobotomy
Dr. Walter freeman
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Boy of the radio broadcast for the prefrontal lobotomy
Howard Dully
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Frontal operculum
Area 44
30
Brocha's speech Area
Area 44
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Fibers enter here from highly integrated circuits of the parietal and temporal lobe
Broca's Speech Area
32
Motor speech area
Area 44
33
Directs Area 4 neurons that initiate tongue, laryngeal and pharyngeal musculature
Area 44
34
Speaking writing and signing
Area 44
35
Aphasia
Complete loss of power to communicate through writing, speaking or signs.
36
Stroke in Brodmann Area 44
Motor aphasia
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Partial or unusual loss of communicative ability
Dysphasia
38
Speech generally dominant on the _______ side
Left side
39
Visual cortex
Areas 17 18 19
40
Primary visual cortex
Area 17
41
Where do we "see"?
Area 17
42
Striate cortex
Area 17
43
Integrating and memory storage regions
Area 18 19
44
Can't recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
45
Primary auditory cortex
Area 41
46
Located in the superior temporal gurus
Area 41
47
Heschl's gurus
Area 41
48
Input fibers come from the medial geniculate body
Area 41
49
Here is where we "hear"
Area 41
50
Pitch, tone, loudness
Area 41
51
Wernicke's area
Area 22
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Hearing memory function
Area 22
53
Lesion in wernickes area results in....
Different manifestation of dysphasia....singing may help
54
Reading writing language
Area 5 7 39 40
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Angular gurus
Area 39
56
Alexia
Deficiency in reading
57
Agraphia
Difficulty writing
58
Gustatory areas
43
59
Olfactory area
34 and 28
60
Stem cells in the nasal cavity are....
Constantly replaced
61
First memories are probably...
Smells
62
Uncut
34
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Parahippacampal gurus
28

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