Neurology of Emotion
Structure of the brain that is involved in evocation and processing of fear and aggression.
What is the Amygdala?
What is a Coma?
What is the Direct Motor Pathway/Pyramidal System?
Central auditory pathway ends at this area of the cerebrum, tonotopically organized.
What is the Primary Auditory Cortex?
Systematic application of stimulation to a patients five sense with the purpose of increasing responsiveness to stimuli.
What is Coma Stimulation?
Located superior to the corpus callosum, suspected to have a role in emotions or emotional regulation (conflict resolution)
What is the Cingulate Cortex?
What is Brain Death?
Tract that runs from the cortex to the brainstem, that is housed entirely in the CNS, includes the direct and indirect motor pathways.
What are Upper Motor Neurons?
What is the Inferior Colliculi?
The ability to understand that you have a mind and that other's have a mind and these minds think and feel differently from each other.
What is Theory of Mind?
Area of the brain that processes what emotions mean; damage to this area can results in lack of emotion or too much emotion.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Somewhere between PVS and fully conscious state with fluctuation noted, with brainstem reflexes and sleep-wake cycle noted, with variable EEG patterns.
What is Minimally Conscious State?
Caused by damage to the extrapyramidal system, with specific damage to the basal ganglia, characterized by harsh voice, monopitch, loud voice level, imprecise consonants and distorted vowels.
What is Hypokinetic Dysarthria?
This area is important for the integration of auditory information, specifically time and intensity of sounds coming from both ears.
What is the Superior Olivary Complex?
The retention of speech sounds long enough to process and attach meaning to them.
What is the Phonological Loop?
Located at the medial temporal lobes, with function in emotional processing, expressing some negative emotions, and empathy/compassion.
What is the Insular Cortex?
What is Locked-In Syndrome?
Disorder caused by diminished functioning in all or some of the following areas: respiration, phonation, resonance, and articulation, causing slowed, slurred and/or uncoordinated speech.
What is Dysarthria?
What is the Arcuate Fasciculus?
Nonmotor planning, involves taking our ideas, thoughts, or feelings and labeling it with language, otherwise known as encoding.
What is Linguistic Planning?
Part of the amygdala that has both afferent and efferent connections with functions in taste and general visceral functions.
What is the Basolateral Group?
Resemble comatose patient by have no sleep-wake cycle, wakefulness is present, but no core or extended consciousness.
What is Persistent Vegetative State?
Controls involuntary movements involved in posture, muscle tone, and reflexes as well as coordination, or modulation or movements.
What is the Indirect Motor Pathway/Extrapyramidal System?
Major component of the SOC, that specializes in higher frequency hearing from both ears.
What is the Lateral Superior Olivary Complex?
Branch of the vagus nerve, that innervates all the intrinsic laryngeal muscles with the exception of the cricothyroid muscle.
What is the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve?