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Stroke Localization of Function

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Aphasia is a disorder that results from damage to ?   show
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What causes aphasia?   show
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What types of aphasia are there?   show
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Fluent Aphasia = ?   show
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Non-fluent aphasia = ?   show
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What else might you see in someone with Brocas ?   show
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Amnesia and the hippocampus = ?   show
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show * lacunar stroke  
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show * These deeper structures receive their blood flow through a unique set of arteries. Because of the characteristics of these arteries, lacunar strokes happen a little bit differently from other strokes  
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How a Lacunar Stroke Occurs ?   show
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Symptoms of a Lacunar Stroke = ?   show
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In a person with prolonged, untreated high blood pressure, multiple lacunar strokes can occur, and cause ?   show
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show * Have a way better prognosis and recovery over that of a regular large artery stroke  
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show * Each hemifield is projected onto the nasal hemiretina of the ipsilateral1 eye and the temporal hemiretina of the contralateral eye  
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Visual Pathway = ?   show
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Central Projections of the retina (4 of them)?   show
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show * Edinger-Westphal nuclei  
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show * Lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus  
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LGN layers = ?   show
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show * total loss of vision in the right eye; it also produces a right afferent pupil deficit.  
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show * loss of vision in the temporal half of both visual fields: bitemporal hemianopsia..... * This kind of damage is most commonly caused by a tumor of the pituitary gland that compresses the chiasm  
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A lesion of the right optic tract = ?   show
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A lesion of the right optic radiation just after the LGN = ?   show
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show * loss of vision in the upper quadrant of the left hemifield  
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A lesion of the parietal portion of the right optic radiation = ?   show
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show * complete loss of vision in the left hemifield but they usually spare foveal vision, probably because the cortical foveal representation is so extensive that a single lesion is unlikely to destroy it all  
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