PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Temporal Lobe, Neurofibrillary Tangle, Paraphasia
Document Summary
Degenerative disorders: dementia: gradual deterioration of intellectual abilities. Chapter 7: step wise (big jump in deterioration) vs. Hippocampus memory problems; lh verbal problems; rh visual problems. Responsible for spatial awareness, speech, recognition, and movement: lh problems with language and naming things, rh problems with constructing and drawing things, occipital lobe: identify colours, detect movement, and visual hallucinations. Responsible for vision damage results in problems with visual recognition, inability to. Cortical dementia: cortical dementia: dementia affecting the cortical structures (the four lobes) (1) dementia of the alzheimer"s type (dat): slowly progressive, usually begins after 65-years of age. Medial temporal and parietal lobes, hippocampus and entorhinal cortex: areas mainly affected: Beginnings with hippocampus: most plaques and tangles due to density of neurons and high. Spreads to temporal lobe parietal lobe frontal lobe everywhere else. Doesn"t matter how many plaques and tangles accumulated, matters where they"re located.
