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Major Dysfunctions 2º Damage
Major dysfunctions associated with damage to specific functional areas of the cortex
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Pathology
Graduate
02/29/2012

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Somatosensory Cortex (3,1,2) damage
Definition
decr ability to discriminate intensity and quality of sensation
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Primary Auditory Cortex (41) damage
Definition
difficulty localizing sounds
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Primary Vestibular Cortex (40) damage
Definition
altered awareness of head position and movement
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Somatosensory Cortex (3,1,2) damage
Definition
interferes with ability to localize touch
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Somatosensory Cortex (3,1,2) damage
Definition
loss of conscious proprioception
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Primary Visual Cortex (17) damage
Definition
homonymous hemianopsia
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Somatosensory Association Area (5,7) damage
Definition
astereognosis = inability to identify objects by touch despite having intact discriminative sensation (areas 3,1,2)
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Visual Association Area (18-21) damage
Definition
visual agnosia = inability to visually recognize objects despite having intact vision

prosopagnosia = inability to recognize faces
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Auditory Association Area (22,42) damage
Definition
auditory agnosia = inability to recognize a sound despite having normal hearing
(L-sided: cannot recognize speech
R-sided = cannot recognize noises)
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Supplementary Motor Area (6) damage
Definition
perseveration = repeating a movement or word again and again without apparent reason
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Supplementary Motor Area (6) damage
Definition
disruption of implicit sequences of motion

(implicit memory, not explicit/declarative memory)
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Supplementary Motor Area (6) damage
Definition
apraxia = inability to perform a movement despite having normal sensation, strength, proprioception, and understanding of the task

(ideomotor v ideational)
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Premotor Cortex Area (6) damage
Definition
impaired movement selection
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Supplementary Motor Area (6) damage
Definition
apraxia = inability to perform a movement despite having normal sensation, strength, proprioception, and understanding of the task (ideomotor v ideational)
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Broca's Area (44) damage
Definition
Broca's Aphasia = inability to express oneself using language, written or spoken
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Primary Motor Cortex (4) damage
Definition
impairments to timing and activation of LMNs
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Primary Motor Cortex (4) damage
Definition
disruption of well-learned sequences of movement;
loss of coordination and "fractionation"
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Primary Motor Cortex (4) damage
Definition
paresis
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Primary Motor Cortex (4) damage
Definition
changes in viscoelastic properties of muscle; hyperstiffness
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Primary Motor Cortex (4) damage
Definition
dysarthria = inability to articulate words
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Prefrontal Association Cortex (9,10,12) damage
Definition
loss of initiative and motivation
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Prefrontal Association Cortex (9,10,12) damage
Definition
problems with goal setting, goal planning
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Prefrontal Association Cortex (9,10,12) damage
Definition
loss of divergent thinking (seeing multiple possibilities)
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Prefrontal Association Cortex (9,10,12) damage
Definition
emotional disturbances (laugh/cry without intention)
Term
Limbic Area damage
Definition
loss of normal behavioral controls (disinhibition)
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Parietotemporal Association Area damage
Definition
Wernicke's aphasia
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Arcuate Fasciculus damage
Definition
conduction aphasia
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Arcuate Fasciculus damage
Definition
neglect (>> anosognosia: denial of limb)
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