Memory

Question 1

Encoding

Answer 1

Left frontal

Question 2

Retrieval

Answer 2

Right frontal

Question 3

Medial temporal

Answer 3

consolidation - permanent memory3

Question 4

Neglect most often

Answer 4

non-dominant side -
right hemisphere lesion
often parietal

Question 5

Spatial acalculia

Answer 5

problem with neglect

Question 6

Patients with cortical basal degeneration have

Answer 6

neglect of right arm - dont use the limb contralateral to lesion - no weakness!!

Question 7

Where is the lesion in a patient with motor neglect

Answer 7

Striatum (caudate , putamen)
Lateral thalamus
Frontoparietal cortex

Question 8

when does alien hand syndrome occur?

Answer 8

Coprus callosum surgery for epilepsy -

often right side

Question 9

Depression can cause cognitive difficulty

Answer 9

oFTEN reversible dementia

and cant tell the difference between BLACK BOARD and blackboard

Question 10

Aprosodia is

Answer 10

often non-dominant hemisphere
cant convey or interpret emotional
can be motor aprosodia
- OFTEN right sided lesion

Question 11

Dementia with Lewy bodies often characterized by

Answer 11

Hallucinations

- can be preceded by REM sleep behavior disorders

Question 12

Semantic dementia

Answer 12

• fluent speech
• semantic paraphasias
• Good repitition
• no visual symptoms
  LOSS OF meaning to words and objects
• lesion in BILATERAL TEMPORAL POLE AND INFEROLATERAL CORTEX

Question 13

Herpes encephalitis can cause

Answer 13

dense amnesia

Good attention, can concentrate but loss of memory

Question 14

Prosody

Answer 14

Associated with a left sided aphasia lesion

Question 15

Severe comprehension problems can still spare

Answer 15

whole body commands

Question 16

Conduction aphasias characteristics

Answer 16

1. Fluent speech
2. Good comprehension
3. Poor repitition
4. poor naming
   ARCUATE FASCICULUS

Question 17

wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 17

- Fluent speech
poor comprehension
- pOOR repitition
Poor naming
POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS

Question 18

BROCA’S aphasia

Answer 18

• non-fluent
• Good comprehension
• poor repition
• poor naming

POSTERIOR INFERIOR FRONTAL LESION

Question 19

Global aphasia

Answer 19

• non fluent -
  poor everything
• FRONTAL, TEMPORAL, PARIETAL LESION

Question 20

Transcortical sensory aphasia

Answer 20

• fluent-
  comprehension is poor. naming is poor
• Good REPITITION
  POSTERIOR TEMPORO-PARIETAL-OCCIPITAL junction - spares wernicke

Question 21

Transcortical motor aphasia

Answer 21

• non fluent
• comprehension is fine, repition is fine
  NAMING IS POOR
  LESION FRONTAL LOBE spares broca’s

Question 22

Mixed transcortical aphasia

Answer 22

• non fluent
  poor comprehension, poor naming
  but GOOD repitition
  ANTERIOR POSTERIOR ASSOCIATION CORTEX sparing perisylvian language part

Question 23

Anomic aphasia

Answer 23

• fluent speech, good comprehension and repitition
  POOR NAMING
  TEMPORAL TEMPORAL PARIETAL