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ch.33 CV Disorders
Question | Answer |
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What is the left hemisphere of the brain referred to as? | categorical hemisphere |
What is the right hemisphere of the brain referred to as? | complementary hemisphere |
What does dysfunction of the broca's area of the brain cause? | expressive aphasia |
What does a pt with expressive aphasia experience? | pt can not speak but can understand what people around them are saying |
What does dysfunction of the wernicke's area of the brain cause? | receptive aphasia |
What does a pt with receptive aphasia experience? | pt can speak, but they do not understand language around them. - although they can talk their language will be illogical because they cannot understand what their saying |
What is the frontal lobe responsible for? | Voluntary movements, Memory, Emotion, Social judgment, Decision making, Reasoning, Aggression |
What is the parietal lobe responsible for? | Receiving and interpreting bodily sensations, Governing spacial awareness |
What is the temporal lobe responsible for? | Hearing, Smelling, Learning, Memory, Emotional behavior, Visual recognition |
What is the occipital lobe responsible for? | Analyzing and interpreting visual information |
What causes an ischemic stroke? | decrease blood flow to a certain area of the brain caused by a travelled blood clot |