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Cortical Lesion
Brodmann Numbers, Cortex, Lesions
10
Medical
Post-Graduate
05/26/2011

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Term

Brodmann 44, 45

Dominant Side 

Definition

Broca's Aphasia

Expressive Aphasia

Non-fluent Aphasia 

 

(Cannot express language)

Blood supply= Superior Division of MCA

Term

Brodmann 44, 45

Non-dominant side 

Definition

Motor aprosodia

(Inability to speak with emotion) 

Term

Brodmann 39, 40 and 22

Dominant hemisphere

Definition

Wernicke's Aphasia

Fluent Aphasia 

 

(Deficit in comprehension of language)

Term

Brodmann 39, 40, 22 

Non-dominant hemisphere

Definition

Sensory aprosodia

(Inability to understand emotion in spoken words)

Term

Angular gyrus

Brodmann 39, 40 

Dominant hemisphere

Definition

Gerstmann's syndrome

1. R/L disorientation

2. Acalculia

3. Agraphia

4. Finger agnosia

Term

39, 40, 22- Wernicke's area

AND 

44, 45- Broca's area

Definition

Global Aphasia

(Loss of sensory and motor aspects of speech)

Term
Superior longitudinal and Arcuate fasiculi 
Definition

Conduction aphasia

(Lesion of association fibers, cannot read outloud)

Term
Dominant visual cortex + Splenium of CC 
Definition

Alexia (Inability to read) without Agraphia

 

Term

Parietal Lobe (Brodmann 5, 7, 39, 40) 

Non-dominant hemisphere

Definition
Unilateral neglect 
Term

Parietal Lobe (5, 7, 39, 40)

Dominant hemisphere

Definition

Constructional apraxia= cannot draw simple diagram

Tactile agnosia

Agraphia

Acalculia 

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