Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Premotor Cortex, Prosthesis, Stroke

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Bob La Rose

Document Summary

Within the basal ganglia there are different areas responsible for certain functions (hormones etc. ) Affects the ability for the neurons to be excited to produce movement. Clock -> involved in the timing of movements (make muscles work together to be efficient) Plays a role in implicit memories -> motor and movement type of memories. These are the memories that are hard to describe but easy to do. Soft lesion -> a lesion that you can"t see on an mri or medical imaging able to speak fluently (stutter) People who have a stutter may have a soft lesion in the cerebellum. Timing of movements include speech -> muscles don"t follow timing and you won"t be. Disability to coordinate the muscles to walk smoothly. Hemm -> blood touches brain tissue and the cells that are exposed to blood die. Neurons are not remade or rebuilt they cannot be recovered -> destroyed.