AP Psych Notes/Damage To The Brain

Aphasia

impairment of language usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to..

Wernicke’s Area-temporal lobe involved in language comprehension(receptive)

Broca’s area-frontal lobe directs movement necessary for language productiion (expressive)

Apraxia

inability to coordinate speaking movement of speech refers to the inability to coordinate

a sufferer CAN fully comprehend what is said to them (which isn’t always a given with aphasia)

Agonsia

Inability to visually recognize objects through sight

eyes are obtaining neural impulses but the brain cant comprehend the information

prosopagnosia inability yo recognize faces even to familiar people

Aquaried Psychopathy

damage done to areas of your frontal lobe which then robs you of the ability to tell from right to wrong

ex: John Wayne Gacy,Albert Fish,Ed Gein,Richard Ramirez and Charles Whittman

Lesion

damage to the brain tissue

Allows us to study the functions of the brain in circumstances that would be unethical replicate

CTE(Chroinic Traumatic Enecephalopathy)

Caused by repeated “sub lethal” blows to the head

Particularly in the frontal lobe and parietal lobe

Variety of short term and long term symptoms