PSYB65H3 Lecture 10: The aphasias
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Lecture 10 chapter 7 and 10 and audio clip (memory and spatial ability) Neuropsychology of learning and memory, frontal and temporal lobe syndromes. posterior portion of it contains the primary motor cortex that sends information out. and the very frontal portion is the associational cortex that is involved in higher order processes such as planning, socially appropriate behaviour and even with. Alzheimer"s starts with hippocampus and then damage to frontal lobe. Frontal lobe syndrome: among young adults, when getting into accidents with cars, motorcycles, skiing etc. or with tumours in frontal lobe. 18% developed epilepsy within a 10 year period www. notesolution. com: ceased by the 1950"s because drugs came on board and they were much more effective and less drastic than frontal lobes. For victims of lobotomies, tumours, strokes affecting the frontal lobe area. problems in memory consolidation: patient h. m. had both hippocampi removed, could learn almost nothing for the rest of his life.
