KIN 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Visual Cortex, Taste, Premotor Cortex

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Lecture 10 functional anatomy of the cns: cerebrum. Openstax: chapters 13, 14, 16 outline gross anatomy of the cerebrum primary vs. secondary/association areas motor and sensory tracts brain structures involved in: Body map" found in both motor and sensory cortex. Homunculus ( little man ) posterior column-medial lemniscus (pcml) pathway: pcml pathway. Ventral group: motor function, somatic sensation, sensory input. Project to primary sensory cortex via internal capsule plasticity following injury dedicated sensory pathways for different types of afferent input corticospinal tracts direct motor pathways lateral corticospinal tract. Brown-s quard syndrome deep brain areas involved in movement: basal ganglia basal ganglia - damage. Huntington"s chorea the case of phineas gage railway worker, sept. 13, 1848 tamping rod shot up through his skull memory: the case of patient hm". 1953 - surgery to treat epilepsy: bilateral removal of hippocampus (structure withintemporal lobe) language processing.

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