neuropsych evidence Flashcards
frontal lobe
personality, movement and speech
temporal love
audio/language process, visual recognition
parietal lobe
sensory
occipital
visual
cerebellum
co-ordination of movement
grey matter
cortex
white matter
fibres, myelin sheath, neurones
plasticity
one area of the brain takes over what the damaged area did - brain does not change physical shape
what happened to HM
he had epilepsy and and removed some temporal lobe and hippocampus
it stopped his epilepsy but he couldn’t form any new memories
patient DF
visual agnosia
impaired object perception and recognition
Urbach weithe disease
destruction of amygdala
no fear at all
could not look in eye - WS?
how was einstein so clever
larger corpus collosum
PTSD
lower amygdala nuclei volume due to extreme stress - norway terror attack
