SPA 3104 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Calcarine Sulcus, The Fluid, Hemianopsia

• School: UCF
• Department: Speech Pathology and Audiology
• Course: SPA 3104
• Professor: Ratusnik

Document Summary

It relays sensory information to the cerebral cortex. (it also regulates sleep, alertness and wakefulness). Pyramidal motor tract (descending from the cortical lobes) The pyramidal motor tract is the primary motor tract. It carries impulses away from the cerebral hemisphere to the brainstem and spinal cord. Upper: elevated (spastic), hypertonic muscle response, muscle weakness. How does a person with epilepsy know when a seizure is about to occur? (what precedes a seizure?) Where is its demarcation: it divides both the frontal lobe and parietal lobe above from the temporal lobe below, it"s in both hemispheres of the brain but is longer in the left hemisphere in most people. What is the "spider-like" circular anterior structure and what does it do: the circle of willis, mixes blood flow from left to right hemisphere. Lower: (flaccid paralysis), hypotonic muscle response, loss of muscle tone. Progressive diseases of the central nervous system include: Left hemisphere: language processing, speech, calculations, verbal memory.