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Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System
2 parts of Nervous System
12 pairs of cranial nerves and 31 pairs of spinal nerves
How many cranial and spinal nerves in PNS?
Cerebrum
What structure isā¦
The largest structure of the nervous system
Two cerebral hemispheres
Wrapped by three meningeal linings
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) and ventricular system
Landmarks: Cerebral longitudinal fissure, lateral sulcus (a.k.a. Sylvian fissure), central sulcus (the Rolandic sulcus/fissure)
Cerebral Cortex (aka grey matter)
Outermost layered neural tissue of the cerebrum
Darker color, consisting of neuron cell bodies
Divided into 5 lobes
Frontal lobe
What lobe?
Voluntary movement and cognitive function
Primary Motor Cortex
Important for the initiation of voluntary motor movement
In frontal lobe
Prefrontal cortex
Important for attention, working memory, and executive function (such as judgment, problem solving, etc.)
In frontal lobe
Brocaās Area
Important for verbal expression (production of fluent, well-articulated speech)
Nearby areas: Planning and organizing speech movements
In frontal lobe
Parietal lobe
What lobe?
Somatic (body) sense
Primary somatosensory cortex (postcentral gyrus)
The primary reception site of somatosensory input
In parietal lobe
Sensory association area
Integrating information related to \n vision (from occipital lobe), audition (from temporal lobe), and somatic sense
In parietal lobe
Angular Gyrus
Important for the comprehension of written material
in dominant hemisphere
in parietal lobe
supramarginal syrus
Involved in language perception and processing
in dominant hemisphere
in parietal lobe
Temporal lobe
What lobe?
Hearing, analysis of auditory signals, and memory formation
middle temporal gyrus
Important for higher-level information processing and forming new memory
In temporal lobe
Primary auditory cortex
Organized according to the frequency of sounds
in temporal lobe
Wernickeās area
important for language comprehension (processing speech and language decoding)
in temporal lobe
occipital lobe
What lobe?
Vision and higher-lever visual processing
Marked by imaginary lines rather than prominent sulci
Different regions of the occipital lobes process different aspects of visual information
Insular lobe
What lobe?
Involve in consciousness and regulation of emotion and homeostasis
Folded deep within the lateral sulcus
in the dominant hemisphere: Facilitate the production of well-articulated, fluent speech
Anterior Language Region
ā¢ Planning and organizing speech action \n ā Responsible for controlling the muscles used in speech production \n ā¢ The heart of the this region: Brocaās area
In left frontal lobe
Posterior language region
ā¢ Language comprehension and formulating linguistic messages with appropriate syntax and semantic content
ā Storage and retrieval of words
ā Retrieval of grammatical and linguistic rules
ā¢ The heart of this region: Wernickeās area
In left temporal and parietal lobes
Myelinated fibers (white matter)
Make up the communication link between neurons
3 types: projection, association, commissural
Projection fiber
What fiber?
Connect the cortex with the distant locations
The tracts running to the cortex and from the cortex to the brainstem and the spinal cord, e.g. corona radiata
Association fiber
What fiber?
Provide communication between regions of the same hemisphere
ā¢ Short ___ fibers (within the same lobe)
ā¢ Long ___ fibers (between lobes), e.g. arcuate fasciculus
Commissural fiber
What fiber?
Connect one location of a hemisphere to the corresponding location of the other hemisphere, e.g. corpus callosum
Subcortex
A collection of gray matter inferior to the cerebral cortex
Basal ganglia
Control of movement and movement patterns
subcortex
Limbic system
Mediate long-term memory, feelings, emotion, the desire to produce language
subcortex
Thalamus
The largest structure of the diencephalon
ā¢ The final relay for nearly all sensory (except olfaction) information to the cerebral cortex
ā¢ Integrating and transmitting information
ā¢ Important role in consciousness, attention, and memory
The Carotid System
After joining the circle of Willis, the internal carotid artery divides to form the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) and middle cerebral artery (MCA)
The Vertebral-Basilar System
- Two vertebral arteries merge to form a basilar artery ā¢ After joining the circle of Willis, basilar artery forms the posterior cerebral artery (PCA)
Circle of willis
Connects the carotid system with the vertebrobasilar system
Stroke (cerebrovascular accident CVA)
ā Brain damage caused by vascular disruptions
ā¢ Affects the arteries leading to and within the brain
2 types: ischemic and hemorrhagic
Ischemic stroke
Type of stroke?
ā¢ Occurs when a blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain is blocked
ā Often results from atherosclerosis (a thicken artery wall causes narrowing of the arterial lumen)
Thrombosis
A clot may form in an artery that is already very narrow (thrombus)
Thrombotic stroke
Type of stroke?
When thrombus completely blocks the artery
Embolic stroke
Type of stroke?
ā¢ A clot may break off from somewhere (embolus) and travel up to the brain to block a smaller artery
Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
-an episode in which a person has stroke-like symptoms.
ā Symptoms, are similar or the same as a stroke, begin suddenly, last only a short time (from a few minutes to an hour), and disappear completely
ā¢ TIA is a temporary interruption of blood supply to the brain
ā Results in a sudden, brief decrease in brain function ā It is caused by mechanisms that interfere with blood supply to the brain
Hemorrhagic stroke
Type of stroke?
ā¢ Occurs when a blood vessel in part of the brain becomes weak and bursts open, causing blood to leak into the brain
ā The flow of blood damages the brain
ā¢ Possible Causes
ā Weakness of a vessel wall, traumatic injury to a vessel, or extreme fluctuations in blood pressure (rare)
Intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke
Occurs when a diseased blood vessel within the brain bursts, allowing blood to leak inside the brain
ā¢ Common sites: Thalamus, basal ganglia, brainstem, and cerebellum
Extracerebral hemorrhagic stroke
subarachnoid hemorrhages is the most common and often caused by cerebral aneurysms
Aneurysms are weak or thin spot on a blood vessel in the brain that balloons out and fills with blood
The blood vessel wall becomes weak and prone to rupture \n
Acute therapy
Stroke treatment
ā To protect and improve blood flow to the region of infraction during early stage of stroke
ā Emergency treatment with medications (clot-busting drugs)
ā¢ Example: Tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA). Must be given within 3 hours after the onset of an ischemic stroke
Chronic Therapy
Stroke treatment
ā Rehabilitation begins as soon as possible when the patient is medically stable (May begin within 48 hours after the stroke)
ā¢ To improve function so that the stroke survivor can become as independent as possible
Aphasia
An acquired communication disorder caused by brain damage, characterized by an impairment of language modalities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
results from damage to the parts of the brain that contain language
may cause difficulties in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, but does not affect intelligence.
Neurogenic
Acquired
Involves language problems
May also have other problems like dysarthria, apraxia or dysphagia
Aphasia (4 characteristics)
stroke (most common)
head injury
Cerebral tumors
infection/ inflammation
Any brain tissue damage that occurs in the language center of the brain
Etiology of aphasia
Neuroplasticity
ā¢ Brainās ability to modify, change, and adapt both structure and function throughout life and in response to experience.
ā¢ The ability of the nervous system to respond to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, function and connections.
Behavioral changes
ā¢ Neuroplasticity drives __ ____. __ ____ drive brain plasticity.
diaschisis
a sudden loss of function in a portion of the brain connected to, but at a remote distance away from, a damaged area
Injury-Induced Neuroplasticity
ā¢ The brain compensates for damage by reorganizing and forming new connections between intact neurons ā¢ Requires stimulation and opportunities for learning
stimulation and opportunities for learning
What is required for injury-induced neuroplasticity?
Rerouting
ā¢ re-establishing an existing nervous connection via an alternative neural pathway.
ā¢ new neural connections are made between a neuron and other active neurons
Sprouting
growth of new axon or dendrite fibers to enable new \n neural connections to be formed.
Rerouting and sprouting
Adaptive plasticity is achieved vis 2 primary mechanisms:
stimulation
__________ is needed for neural āreconnectionā and āreorganizationā
Recruitment of different or remote neural circuits \n allows a given behavior to occur in a different way \n ā¢ As learning takes place, new neural pathways are \n generated \n ā¢ New pathways allow the brain to perform lost \n functions in a new and different way
Pros for neuroplasticity
This reorganization may inhibit the potential for \n restoration of the damaged neural circuits
Cons for neuroplasticity
Recovery
Perform previously impaired task in the same manner as before the injury
Compensation
ā¢ Use of a new strategy to perform the same task.
ā¢ Focus on independence NOT impairment.
ā¢ Different neural tissues take over the lost function
6-8 weeks
Spontaneous recovery happens during the first ______ after a stroke depending on the etiology, size & location of the lesion.
ā¢ RH can take over SOME linguistic functions after a LH stroke. \n ā¢ Therapy induced recovery involves both hemispheres.
Better recovery requires LH reorganization of language skills following a temporary increasing RH activity. \n ā”New left hemisphere regions not previously involved in language function may be recruited (Fridriksson et al., 2012). Domain-general networks not specifically related to language in LH may play a role in supporting recovery from aphasia
Role of right hemisphere during recovery
Site of lesion
Lesion size
Severity
Time Post-onset
Personal factors
Psychosocial factors
Factors Related to Recovery-Type of Impairment
Verbal (auditory) comprehension deficits
Compromised ability to comprehend the verbal language
Auditory comp involves self monitoring and self-correction.
Poor compā> compromised self-monitoringā> not aware of their own speech errors (e.g., Wernickeās & Global aphasia: do not self correct)
Anomia
Greater than normal word retrieval problems.
Problems with recalling words or names or to find the appropriate word to identify an object or person
Circumlocation
know what intended word but cannot find the word.
Indirect, roundabout language to describe a word or concept
Paraphasia
speech disturbances resulting from brain damage in which words are jumbled and sentences meaningless
Phonemic/ Literal paraphasia
Speech errors are unrelated to motor deficits but linked to higher language-level deficits associated with aphasia.
Syllables, words, or phrases produced unintentionally by an individual with aphasia
Substitution, insertion, deletion, or transposition of phonemes (usually with at least 50% overlap of phonemes between error production and target, but definitions differ).
Error production may be a word (telephone ā> television) or non-word (e.g., I drove home in my lar).
Semantic/ verbal paraphasia
Have a clear semantic relationship to the desired word and represent the same part of speech (Goodglass, 1993).
Identified based on whether there is a semantic relationship between the error and the intended word.
Self correction may or may not occur
e.g., cup/glass, wife/husband, talk/hear, milk/juice, glass/water
Neologistic paraphasia/ neologism
Non-word substitution for a target word (usually with less than 50% overlap of phonemes between error and target)
Spoken words which cannot be identified as having come from the patient's language.
e.g., planker/comb; pinwad/light; leoz/belt