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1
Q

Does damage to UMNs affect proximal or distal muscles more?

A

Distal

2
Q

Through what tract does taste info travel to thalamus?

Where does it project to in cortex?

A
Solitariothalamic tract (STT)
Insular cortex.
3
Q

Bradyphrenia

A

Slow mentation (slow thinking)

4
Q

Delusion

A

Fixed, false belief that is unusual for that culture

5
Q

What areas of brain are important for focus / attention

A

PFC and cingulate cortex

6
Q

Damage to what area causes hemineglect

A

Nondominant parietal association cortex

7
Q

Dysphagia

A

Partial deficit of language

8
Q

Paraphasia

A

Word error. May have similar sound, such as “block” instead of “clock”, similar meaning, such as “watch” instead of “clock”, or may be nonsense, such as “brop”.

9
Q

Anomia

A

Abnormal naming

10
Q

Receptive aphasia

A

Normal fluency but words are nonsense

11
Q

Damage to arcuate fasciculus causes what?

A

Conduction aphasia. Problems w/ repetition.

12
Q

Prosody

A

Emotional context / inflection of speech. Controlled by nondominant hemisphere.

13
Q

Expressive aprosodia caused by what?

A

Due to anterior lesion on non dominant side.

14
Q

Receptive aprosodia caused by what?

A

Due to posterior lesion on non dominant side.

15
Q

Limbic areas include: (7 things)

A

Cingulate, orbital, and medial PFC, nucleus accumbens (ventral part of basal ganglia), hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus

16
Q

What is abulia? What causes it?

A

Deficit of motivation. Due to damage of anterior cingulate cortex.

17
Q

What NT does basal forebrain release for arousal?

A

Ach

18
Q

What NT does hypothalamus release for arousal?

A

Histamine

19
Q

What NT does locus coeruleus release for arousal?

A

NE

20
Q

What NT does ventral tegmentum release?

A

DA

21
Q

What NT does raphe nuclei release for arousal?

A

Serotonin

22
Q

What areas does anterior choroidal artery supply?

A

Subcortical areas, such as thalamus and internal capsule. NOT cortex.