Flashcards: Brain

Prefrontal Cortex, Premotor area and motor area.

Planning movement

Instigates voluntary muscle movement

Broca's area

Brocas aphasia or expressive aphasia: Slow labored speech consists mostly of verbs and nouns. Anomia : inability to recall names of familiar objects . Comprehension of written and spoken language is relatively intact.

Personality, Planning, Emotionality, Inhibition, Initiative , abstract thinking, judgement and higher order mental functions.

The parietal lobe is vital for sensory perception and integration, including the management of taste, hearing, sight, touch, and smell. Processes somatosensory information . Also processes senstaion of pain, heat and propriception.

is a rare neurological disorder that affects the brain's left parietal lobe, usually near the angular gyrus. It's characterized by four main symptoms: 

Agraphia: Difficulty writing, which can include illegible writing, inconsistent letter formation, or unfinished letters 

Acalculia: Difficulty with math, such as serial subtraction 

Finger agnosia: Difficulty identifying fingers, such as naming them, pointing to them, or moving them on command 

Left-right disorientation: Difficulty distinguishing left from righ

primary auditory cortex. Also involved in emotional behavior & memory

_____________is a language disorder that makes it difficult to understand and produce meaningful speech. Caused by damage to temporal area.

Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a neurological disorder that makes it difficult or impossible to recognize faces

s a neurological condition that prevents a person from recognizing or accurately perceiving their own health problems or mental health conditions. It's often described as a "lack of insight" or "denial of deficit"

a________ neuropsychological condition that occurs when someone with damage to the primary visual cortex can still respond to visual stimuli without consciously seeing them:Explanation

The primary visual cortex, located in the occipital lobe of the brain, helps interpret color, orientation, and spatial frequency. When this area is damaged, secondary visual pathways can still process some visual information, allowing the person to respond to it without conscious awareness

a small part of the brain that regulates the body's circadian rhythms, or sleep-wake cycles

Placidity, apathy, hypersexuality, hyperphagia (excessive eating) and agnosis (problem with recognition)