PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Plantar Reflex, Spasticity, Thalamus

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15 Jun 2012
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Frontal lobe primary motor function, in the division of the frontal lobe which is primary motor. What happens when someone gets a stroke there. Talk about visual system, the little homunculus, motor system adamge. Is what you see, what the person can see out there. Technically divided into right half field, and left half field. Real world we shorten it, the right visual field and left visual field. Your nervous system is divided in such a way so that your fields are divided into halfs because your retinas are divided into two halves. Retina part closest to nose is the nasal portion. Part of the retina that is closest to the nose. Other half of the retina that is cloest to your head or temple, is the temporal portion. The nerves come together from the eyes to a point to a single nerve, single point. Separate nerves leaving the eyes are optic nerves.