Rehabilitation Sciences 3060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dysphagia, Frontal Lobe, Muscle Tone
1 Jun 2016
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Agnosia: inability to recognize incoming information despite intact sensory capacity. Tactile agnosia (astereognosis) unable to recognize forms by handling; but tactile, proprioceptive, thermal senses fine (middle. Cerebral artery [pca] involvement: lesion: posterior association areas of parietal-temporal-occipital lobes. Agnosia & posterior association areas of parietal-temporal-occipital lobes. Back half of the brain (diagram: somatosensory association (parietal, visual (occipital, auditory (temporal) Unable to associate different feedbacks one is getting. Memory: immediate + st deficits common (36% of strokes) How to remember what one is being taught b/c having forgotten what was taught yesterday. Forgetting what one is supposed to be doing; how well would one remember from yesterday; need lots of repetition: lt memory deficits less common, often intact. Where might the lesion be: pca supplies upper brainstem, midbrain, posterior diencephalon (thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus) the hypothalamus is responsible for a number of functions including formation of memory.
