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frontal lobe- responsibilities
- voluntary motor functions
- advance motor planning
- initation of action
- interpretation of emotion
- personality center
- judgement, conscience
- planning, motivation
- bladder and bowel inhibition
- Broca's motor speech center
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frontal lobe- impairments
- contralateral weakness
- contralateral head and eye paralysis
- personality changes, antisocial behavior
- ataxia, primitive reflexes
- Broca's aphasia (language deficits)
- delayed or poor initiation
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parietal lobe- responsibilites
- process perceptual and sensory information
- body schema
- contralateral pain, posture, touch, and proprioception
- perform calculations
- spatial awareness
- sensory: specch comprehension center
- visual tract
- taste perception
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parietal lobe- impairments
- agraphia, finger agnosia
- constructional apraxia, dressing apraxia, anosognosia
- wernicke's aphasia (receptive)
- homonymous visual deficits
- impaired language comprehension
- impairment in taste
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temporal lobe- responsibilities
- auditory and limbic processing
- appreciation of language
- memory
- learning
- affective mood centers (primitive behaviors, visceral emotions)
- short-term memory
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temporal lobe- impairments
- auditory impairment
- hearing impairment
- memory deficits
- learning deficits
- wernicke's aphasia
- antisocial behaviors
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occipital lobe- responsibilities
- primary processing area of visual information
- visual tract
- perception of vision
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occipital lobe- impairments
- homonymous hemianopsia
- impaired extraocular muscle movement
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cerebellum- responsibilities
- coordination of motor skills
- postural tone
- sensory/motor input for trunk and extremities
- coordination of gait
- sensory/motor input from eyes and head for coordination of eye/head movement and balance
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cerebellum- impairments
- ataxia
- discoordination of trunk and extremities
- intention tremor
- balance deficits
- ipsilateral facial sensory loss
- dysdiadochokinesia
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thalamus- responsibilities
- cortical arousal
- memory
- communication information to and from the cerebral cortex
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Midbrain- responsibilites
- communication pathways between higher and lower brain center
- auditory and visual reflexes
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hypothalamus- responsibilities
- controls basic life functions (body temp, thrist, hunger, sleep/wake cycles)
- centers for sympathetic and parasympathetic responses
- regulates anterior pituitary glands
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pons- responsibilities
communication pathways between higher and lower brain centers
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Epithalamus-responsibilities
limbic system association
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Medulla- responsibilities
center for respiratory, cardiac, and vasomotor homeostasis
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subthalamus- responsibilites
association for motor control
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pituitary- responsibilities
- reproductive hormones
- secretion of ADH/oxytocin
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Internal capsule- responsibilites
communication between cortex and spinal cord
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Left hemisphere
- language
- sequence and perform movements
- understand language
- produce written and spoken language
- analytical
- controlled
- logical
- rational
- math
- express positive emotions (love, happiness)
- process verbally coded information in organized, logical, and sequential manner
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Right hemishpere
- nonverbal processing
- process information in a holistic manner
- artistic abilities
- general concert comprehension
- hand-eye coordination
- spatial relationship
- kinesthetic awareness
- understanding music
- understand nonverbal communication
- mathematical reasoning
- express negative emotion
- body image awareness
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cerebellum
- balance
- higher level muscular movements
- integration and coordination of multijoints movements
- creative
- pictorial
- intuitive
- initiation, timing, and sequencing of muscular contractions
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