PSYC37H3 Lecture : Lec 09.docx

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Atrophy: shrinking of brain due to loss of gray cells: neural death. Paraneoplastic: shows a possibility of a tumor, or cancer, but also other mechanisms that cause this . Atrophy of corpus callosum: allows cross talk with the two hemispheres, and it is in the middle of the brain. Agenesis of corpus callosum: doesn"t have corpus callosum. Adl: deficiencies of the daily routine life. Cognitive and emotion difficulties: memory difficulties, she has labile affect: unstable. Gate: wide based gate: she walked weird she fallen over. Cellebelur distharthia: where her voice doesn"t sound like that. She didn"t have the strongest cognitive reserve. Connects with the left and right hem: the integration is this (4) subsections of the brain: > frontal lobe : motor control, reasoning and judgment (when asked to move your finger, motor strip is activated) - Smell is different, it is in the base of the frontal lobe. > occipital lobe : visual perception : primary visual cortex.

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