Insular Damage
Functions
Localization
Case Studies
General
100

Researchers found that smokers with damage to the insula had a _____ time quitting smoking

What is easier?

100

An example of predicting one's own emotional state

What is a high heart rate being a sign of anxiety?

100

Amount of gyri is the anterior insular cortex is made up of

What is 3?

100

Number of patients in cigarette case study

What is 69?
100

Meaning of interoception

What is the ability to be aware of internal sensations in the body?

200

3 ways in which the insular cortex could be damaged

What are strokes, brain tumors, and traumatic brain injuries?

200

Three autonomic processes regulated partially by the insular cortex

What are 

- heart rate?

- blood pressure?

- digestion?

-respiratory rate?

200

Two portions of the insular cortex

What are the anterior and posterior insular cortices?

200

The main cognitive response in the couples case study

What is empathy?

200

The meaning of anterior

What is "closer to the front"?

300

Affect of chronic pain on the insular cortex

What is increase in pain sensitivity?

300

Three emotional cues picked up by the insular cortex

What are body language, tone, and expressions?

300

The area of the insular cortex connecting to more emotion based structures

What is the anterior insular cortex?

300

The information displayed on the screen in the couples case study

What is the person receiving the shock and the level of intensity?

300

The insular cortex in located ____ within the brain

What is deep?

400

The type of tumor commonly affecting the insula

What are lower-grade gliomas

400

Three things taken into consideration when making a decision

What are social cues, interoception, and past experiences?

400

The fissure that the insular cortex is located at the bottom of

What is the silvian fissure?

400

Objective results of the couples case study

What is increased activity in the insular cortex in both cases?

400

The two types of stroke

What are ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes? 

500

The type of stroke associated with insular damage

What is an ischemic stroke

500
The five main roles of the insular cortex

What are predicting emotional states, social emotions, decision making, sensory processing, and self awareness?

500

Three parts the insular cortex is connected to

What are the neocortex, limbic cortex and basal ganglia?

500

Three criteria for a disruption of smoking addiction

What are 

- Reporting quitting smoking less than 1 day after lesion onset?

- reporting that they did not start smoking again after they quit?

- Rating the difficulty of quitting as less than three on a scale of one to seven?

- Feeling no urges to smoke since quitting?


500

The meaning of cortex

What is the outer layer of an organ or structure in the body?

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