Cognitive Impairment

Question 1

What does the cortex process?

Answer 1

Information for perception, thought, language and decision making

Question 2

What is the cortex?

Answer 2

Grey matter
Sheet of nerve cells that covers the surface of the brain

Question 3

What divides the right and left hemisphere?

Answer 3

Longitudinal fissure

Question 4

What is the left hemisphere responsible for?

Answer 4

Language
Analytic
Facts
Labels
Details

Question 5

What are the two hemispheres connected by?

Answer 5

Corpus callosum and anterior commissure

Question 6

What is the right hemisphere responsible for?

Answer 6

Spatial awareness
Emotional processing
Responding to music
Big picture

Question 7

What is disorientation and amnesia?

Answer 7

Difficulty learning and remembering things

Question 8

What is dysphasia?

Answer 8

Difficulty understanding and using language

Question 9

What is dyspraxia?

Answer 9

Diffiuclty doing practical talks

Question 10

What is dyskinesia?

Answer 10

Uncontrolled body movements

Question 11

What is tardive dyskinesia?

Answer 11

A condition that develops as a side effect of medication
Leads to sudden, stiff, jerky movements that cannot be controlled

Question 12

What is agnosia?

Answer 12

Difficulty understanding what is seen

Question 13

What is dysexecutive function and disinhibition?

Answer 13

Difficulty planning and controlling behaviour

Question 14

What is the temporal lobe responsible for?

Answer 14

Memory, speech and understanding

Question 15

What are the 2 parts of the temporal lobe and limbic system?

Answer 15

Hypocampus
Amygdala

Question 16

What happens in the hippocampus?

Answer 16

Memories go here and it is decided whether they are stored in short or long term memory

Question 17

What is the right hippocampus responsible for?

Answer 17

Non-verbal emotional and spatial memories

Question 18

What is the left hippocampus responsible for?

Answer 18

Verbal linguistic memories

Question 19

What is the amygdala responsible for?

Answer 19

Emotional responses to memories

Question 20

What is the parietal lobe responsible for?

Answer 20

Body and spatial awareness and making sense of surroundings

Question 21

What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

Answer 21

Visual processing

Question 22

What are the frontal lobes repsonsible for?

Answer 22

Reasoning, social behaviour, stopping and starting

Question 23

What is the top half of the frontal lobe responsible for?

Answer 23

Goal oreintated action

Question 24

What is the bottom half of the frontal lobe responsible for?

Answer 24

Controls emotion and social behaviour

Question 25

Draw and label the brain