Lesion Causes and Effects - Medicine Study Set

lesion to inferior frontal gyrus causes:

difficulty producing nonverbal communication

lesion to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex causes:

lack of goal orientation

lesion to relay nuclei of thalamus causes:

interrupted sensory pathways, compromising or eliminating contralateral sensation

lesion to bilateral thalamus causes:

consciousness to be effected

lesion to secondary somatosensory cortex causes:

astereognosis

lesion to secondary visual cortex causes:

visual agnosia

lesion to secondary auditory cortex causes:

auditory agnosia

lesion to primary motor cortex causes:

contralateral paresis

dysarthria

unlateral lesions of cerebellum affect which side of the body?

same side

lesion to thalamus can sometimes cause:

thalamic lesion

lesion to ventral and medial dorsal prefrontal association cortex causes:

lack of apathy and emotion

lesion to right partietal lobe causes:

neglect on contralateral side

lesion to premotor area causes:

apraxia

lesion to broca's area causes:

broca's aphasia

lesion to lateral prefrontal area causes:

loss of goal directed behavior

lesion to werkicke's area causes:

wernicke's aphasia-- inability to plan or produce languange