Cerebral Cortex Notes sheet Flashcards
cortical Areas
primary somatosensory area
Function and deficit if damaged
- discriminates shape, texture, size of object
- loss of tacile localization and conscious proprioception
cortical Areas
Primary Auditory
Function and deficit if damaged
- conscious discrimination of loudness and pitch of sounds
- loss of localization of sounds
cortical Areas
Primary Visual
- Function: distinguishes intensity of lightm shape, size, and location of objects
- Lesion: homonymous hemianopia (a field loss deficit in the same halves of the visual field of each eye)
Cortical Areas
Primary vestibular
- Function: discriminates amoung head positions and head movemetns, contributes to perception of vertical
- lesion: change in awareness of head position and movement and perception of vertical
Cortical Areas
Secondary somatosensory
- function: stereognosis and memory of tactle and spatial environment
- lesion: astereognosis
Cortical Areas
Secondary visual
- Function: analysis of motion, , color, recognition of visual object, understanding of visual and spatial relationships, control visual fixation
- Lesion: visual agnosia or optic ataxia
Cortical Areas
Secondary Auditory
- function: classification of sounds
- lesion: auditory agnosia
Cortical Areas
Primary motor cortex
- Function: voluntary controlled movements
- lesion: paresis, loss of finemotor, spastic dysarthria
Premotor area
- Function: control of trunk and girdle muscles, anticipatory postural adjustments
- lesion: apraxia
a disorder of the brain and nervous system in which a person is unable to perform tasks or movements when asked
Supplementary motor area
- Function: initiation of movement, orientation planning, bimanual and sequential movements
- lesion:apraxia
Brocas area
- Function: motor programming of speeach usually only in L hemisphere
- lesion: brocas aphasia (imparied speaking and writing)
Inferior frontal gyrus
usually only in R hemisphere/opposite brocas area
- Function: planning nonverbal communication such as emotional gestures, tone
- lesion: difficulty producing nonverbal communication
Lateral prefrontal cortex
function and what would occur with a lesion
1. Function:
- goal-oriented behavior,
- working memory,
- judgement, planning,
- abstract reasoning,
- divided attention,
- sequencing activity,
- self-awareness
2. lesion:
- loss of goal-oriented behavior,
- divergent thinking (inability to conceive alternative possibilities) and
- conscientiousness
Medial prefrontal cortex
- Function: emotions, self awareness and motivation
- lesion: apathy, lack of emotions and insight
Ventral prefrontal cortex
- Function: social behavior and decision making
- lesion:disinhibition, lack of concern about consequences, impulsiveness, inappropriate behaviors and emotional lability
Temporoparietal cortex
- Function: sensory integration, understanding communication, spatial comprehension, verbal and spatial intelligence
- lesion: inability to handle new information effectively, difficulty with concrete thinking and generalizing information, personal and spatial neglect, tendency to become upset even with minor changes in routine
L hemisphere = wernicke’s aphasia
R hemisphere = spatial neglect and or difficulty understanding nonverbal communication
Communication disorders
Dysarthria
- Synonyms:
- characteristics:
- Comprehend spoken speech
- speak fluently
- produce meaningful language
- normal use of gramar
- read
- write
- structures involved
- Synonyms: none
- characteristics: lacks motor control of speech
- Comprehend spoken speech: yes
- speak fluently: no
- produce meaningful language: yes, difficult to understand
- normal use of gramar: yes
- read: yes
- write: yes
- structures involved: LMN’s or corticobrainstem tract
Communication disorders
Broca’s Aphasia
- Synonyms:
- characteristics:
- Comprehend spoken speech
- speak fluently
- produce meaningful language
- normal use of gramar
- read
- write
- structures involved
- Synonyms: motor expressive or nonfluent aphasia
- characteristics: grammatical omissions and errors, short phrases, effortful speech
- Comprehend spoken speech: yes except grammatical function words
- speak fluently: no
- produce meaningful language: yes with grammatical words missing
- normal use of gramar: no
- read: yes
- write: no
- structures involved: Broca’s usually in left hemisphere
Communication disorders
Global aphasia
- Synonyms:
- characteristics:
- Comprehend spoken speech
- speak fluently
- produce meaningful language
- normal use of gramar
- read
- write
- structures involved
- Synonyms: total; aphasia
- characteristics: cannot speak fluently, cannot communicate verbally, cannot understand language
- Comprehend spoken speech: no
- speak fluently: no
- produce meaningful language: no
- normal use of gramar: no
- read: no
- write: no
- structures involved: wernick’es area, brocas, area and the intervening cortical and subcortical areas
Communication disorders
Wernicke’s aphasia
- Synonyms:
- characteristics:
- Comprehend spoken speech
- speak fluently
- produce meaningful language
- normal use of gramar
- read
- write
- structures involved
- Synonyms: sensory recepitive or fluent aphasia
- characteristics: cannot comprehend language; speaks fluently but unintelligibly
- Comprehend spoken speech: no
- speak fluently: yes
- produce meaningful language: No
- normal use of gramar: no
- read: no
- write: no
- structures involved: wernicke’s area (left side typically)
Communication disorders
Conduction aphasia
- Synonyms:
- characteristics:
- Comprehend spoken speech
- speak fluently
- produce meaningful language
- normal use of gramar
- read
- write
- structures involved
- Synonyms: disconnection aphasia
- characteristics: understands language, language output has word errors(caption instead of principal)
- Comprehend spoken speech: yes
- speak fluently: yes
- produce meaningful language: usually yes, only in severe cases is it unintelligible
- normal use of gramar: yes
- read: yes
- write: somewhat impaired
- structures involved: neurons connecting wernicke’s with broca
Working memory
- information
- location
- goal-relevant information for a short time
- prefrontal and temporoparietal association cortex
Declaritive memory
- information
- location
- facts, events concepts and locations
- lateral prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe
Procedural memory
- information
- location
- Skilled movements and habits
- frontal cortex thalamus, and basal ganglion
What structures function in declarative memory processing
- medial temporal lobe
- medial temporal cortex
- hippocampus
What strucutres function in perceptual integration
temporoparietal assoication cortex
whatstructures are involved
Organization and categorization of information
- lateral prefrontal cortex
Left hemisphere lesion signs and symptoms with
Motor, visual and somatosensory
- hemiparesis
- hemiplegia
- hemisensory
- loss affects right side of body and face and right visual field
Left hemisphere lesion signs and symptoms with
Communication
- difficulty understanding adn producing language
- aphasia, agraphia and dysarthria