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What is the motor cortex?
FPOT; TOPF; whichever mnemonic works for you to remember how cerebral cortex grey matter is divided into these 4 surface folds.
What are Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, and Temporal.
When an image is flashed on your left visual field, this side of the brain processes the information.
What is the right hemisphere?
Involved in expressive speech, in other words the ability to speak.
What is Broca's area?
Amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus and hypothalamus are part of this system of the brain.
What is the limbic system?
Located in the inferior frontal gyrus; this structure may be damaged when a stroke patient can understand language, but may have difficulty speaking it or expressing themselves.
What is Broca's area?
The temporal lobe includes this cortex responsible for audition; that's hearing.
What is auditory cortex?
Bundle of nerves connecting the hemispheres of our brain.
What is corpus callosum?
Involved in processing spoken and written language. Posterior part of the superior temporal gyrus
What is Wernicke's area?
Dysfunction of this limbic structure is linked with anterograde amnesia and alzheimer's disease.
What is hippocampus?
Broca's area is lateralized in this hemisphere and located in this particular lobe.
What is left hemisphere frontal lobe?
The parietal lobe includes taste, spatial awareness, tactile in this cortex. The more receptors the more tissue dedicated to that area.
What is somatosensory cortex?
Primarily lateralized to this side of the brain is the ability to recognize peoples' faces.
What is the right hemisphere.
For the vast majority of people language function is lateralized exclusively to this side of our brains.
What is the left hemisphere?
Deterioration of the this protective layer of the neuron is linked with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
What is Myelin Sheath?
The parietal lobe postcentral gyrus is most active when pressure, temperature, texture, are felt on the cutis and taste buds. Sensitivity correlates to tissue space on this cortex.
What is somatosensory cortex?
Undergoes massive changes between the ages of 18-25, and is considered the last part of the brain to be fully formed.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This hemisphere of our brain acts as "interpreter" of our behaviors, according to Michael Gazzaniga.
What is the left hemisphere?
If the number 5 is presented in the left visual field of a patient, but has difficulty saying what they saw is likely to have had this procedure.
What is a split-brain procedure/ severed corpus callosum?
The motor cortex functions in a way that allows bodily movements of the left side to be determined by the right side, and vice versa is called this.
What is contralateralization?
The cortex mostly involved in interpreting shapes, colors, and general visual cues.
What is Primary visual cortex?
Mostly involved in executive decision making, planning and impulse control. Undergoes drastic reorganization between 18-25 years of age.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The ability for the brain to grow, reorganize, change structure and function throughout life. Especially early on and as a result of severe physical or brain deficits.
What is neuroplasticity?
Wernicke's area is mostly lateralized to this hemisphere, and located in this lobe.
What is left hemisphere, temporal lobe?
What is occipital lobe?