Areas of the Brain
This area is most commonly associated with memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The inability to put a name to an object.
What is anomia?
Struggling with this would most often be the result of a lesion in Brodmann Area 44.
What is expressive language?
This is the most common result of having a stroke.
What is aphasia?
The term meaning cell death due to lack of blood flow to the brain.
What is ischemia?
Area of the brain associated with auditory processing.
What is Heschl's Gyrus?
This term means the persistent feeling to keep talking at all times.
What is pressive speech?
This is the way of categorizing a disorder based on the lesion type and location.
What is the Boston Classification System?
This type of stroke occurs when there is bleeding in the brain.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
The cushioning around the brain.
What are meninges?
Area of the brain associated with word retrieval.
What is Wernicke's Area?
This is the inability to plan speech.
what is Apraxia?
Struggling with this would most often be the result of a lesion in Brodmann Area 45.
What is grammar?
Pure word deafness is a symptom of this type of aphasia after suffering from a stroke.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
White matter is white because of this.
What is myelination?
Area of the brain associated with motor execution.
What is the precentral gyrus?
The inability to produce a word, often resulting in the individual talking around a word, or having to give contextual clues as to what the word is.
What are circumlocutions?
Difficulty with attention, as well as executive function, are causes of a lesion in this area.
What is Brodmann's Area 47?
A stroke resulting in this type of aphasia would mean the individual has poor fluency, poor auditory comprehension, and poor repetition.
What is global aphasia?
This means having weakness in the limbs on the opposite side of the location of the lesion.
What is hemiparisis?
Area of the brain associated with sensory signals.
What is the thalamus?
This is when an individual reads something, and then has no comprehension of what they just read.
What is denial?
The cutting of this area would result in the splitting of the two hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
If a stroke is deep enough, it could lead to this, which would result in the complete loss of function of the left side of the field of vision.
What is hemispatial neglect?
Known as the zone of language.
What is the perisylvian region?