Unit 3: Cortical Lesions Flashcards
(33 cards)
What is the appropriate term? Bilateral occipitoparietal lesions
Simultanagnosia
What is the appropriate term? Impaired vision produced by a visual field
Visual field deficit
What is the appropriate term? Inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
What is the appropriate term? Inability to recognize objects
Object agnosia
Where is the lesion? Amnesia
Temporal
Where is the lesion? Apathy
Frontal (medial)
Where is the lesion? Broca’s aphasia
Broca’s Area
Where is the lesion? Disinhibition
Frontal
Where is the lesion? Emotional Deficits
Temporal
Where is the lesion? Executive Dysfunction
Frontal
Where is the lesion? Failure to alter actions in response to changing environmental stimuli
Frontal
Where is the lesion? Hemineglect
Parietal (right)
Where is the lesion? Inattention to one side of body or extrapersonal space
Parietal (Right)
Where is the lesion? Loss of ability to plan, carry out, and monitor goal-directed action
Frontal
Where is the lesion? Motor aprosody
Frontal (right)
Where is the lesion? Wernicke’s aphasia
Wernicke’s Area
Which brain location? Attention
Parietal (Right)
Which brain location? Calculation
Parietal (Left)
Which brain location? Comportment
Frontal
Which brain location? Emotion
Temporal
Which brain location? Executive Function
Frontal
Which brain location? Language comprehension
Temporal (Left)
Which brain location? Language fluency
Frontal (Left)
Which brain location? Memory
Temporal
