Unit 5
What type of memory is associated with facts, events, concepts, and locations
Declarative Memory
Affects comprehension of written language?
Alexia
What is double vision?
Diplopia
Trisomy 21
Down syndrome
Optic Nerve
What are the stages of Declarative memory?
Encoding, consolidation, and retrievel
Difficulty expressing spoken language. Understands language, except for grammatical functions.
Broca's Aphasia
Prevents activation of superior oblique muscle
Trochlear lesion
Autosomal recessive defect- results in demyelination and neuronal loss
Phenylketonuria
Moves eyes laterally or abducts eye
CN VI or Abducens
What type of attention is the ability to continue an activity over time?
Sustained attention
Not a visual deficit but a perceptual deficit.
Neglect
Eye movements following an object, also called tracking
Smooth pursuits
Hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking that impairs daily living
Schizophrenia
What neurotransmitter is associated with the voluntary direction of attention toward an object?
Acetylcholine
Failure to respond to stimulation when both sides of the body are stimulated
Extinction of bilateral simultaneous stimulation
Optokinetic Nystagmus
Loss in both temporal fields
Bitemporal hemianopia
What part of the brain generates feelings, and interprets expressions, body language, and social signals?
Amygdala
The cortical areas responsible for understanding language and speech are found in the?
Left hemisphere
What is the visual pathway system?
Retinal fibers - optic nerve - optic chiasm- lateral geniculate nucleus- superior and inferior optic radiations - upper and lower banks of calcarine fissures
Damage to neurons that connect Broca's and Wernicke's area
Conduction Aphasia