FYSM 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frontal Lobe, Visual Cortex, Entorhinal Cortex
2 Feb 2017
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Frontal lobe: responsible or the motor cortex, intelligence/personality, working memory, executive functions. Temporal lobe: responsible fore hearing, language functioning, emotions, memory, object recognition. Parietal lobe: responsible fore facial processing and your sense of touch. Corpus collosum: directs movements between left and right brain. Brain stem: maintains basic bodily functions (breathing, blood pressure) The brains of alzheimer"s patients appear to be shrunken with larger gas in between brain segments (sulkeyes). They show enlarged ventricles and shrinkage in areas such as the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. There are 2 main types: diffuse plaques: normal plaques, neuritic plaques: surrounded by glial cells and dead axons. They are thought to begin within the frontal lobe. However levels/amounts of plaques do not show connection with the severity of the disease. Found within the segments of brain, therefore they are extracellular. These are the proteins that need to be properly folding in order to work properly within the microtubules.
