NURS 611 ADVANCED PATHO PHYSIOLOGY EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE IMPORTANT DETAILS 2023 GRADED A+.

NURS 611 ADVANCED PATHO PHYSIOLOGY EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE IMPORTANT DETAILS 2023 GRADED A+. Week 4 Neurological Functions: chapters 16, 17, 18 & 19 Central Nervous System- Brain & spinal cord I. Brain * Ability to reason, function intellectually, express personality & mood, perceive & interact with the environment A. Forebrain (telencephalon: cerebral hemispheres & diencephalon: interbrain) a. Cerebral cortex (largest portion of the brain) b. Basal ganglia (several nuclei) c. Cerebral cortex: outer layer of neurons (grey matter) that receive, integrate, store & transmit info & white matter (beneath the cerebral cortex) composed of myelinated nerve fibers Telencephalon Frontal lobe (central sulcus): future planning, self-management, decision-making * Speech & language issues (Broca’s area: helps put thoughts into words), ability to speak, understand language, produce speech aka aphasia & dysphagia * Motor skills (primary motor cortex) such as coordinate voluntary movements (walking & running) * Comparing objects * Forming memories (long-term) * Empathy * Personality * Reward-seeking behavior & motivation (dopamine-sensitive neurons) * Attention, selective attention Parietal lobe: somatic sensory input (storage, analysis, interpretation of sensory stimuli) * Touch, temperature, vibratory sense * Hemiplegia * Differentiate between right & left * Difficulty with reading, writing & math * Apraxia Occipital lobe: primary visual cortex * Homonomous hemianopia Temporal lobe: primary auditory cortex * Receptive aphasia or dysphagia (Wernicke’s area: sensory speech, responsible for reception & interpretation of speech * Memory consolidating issues * Hearing: auditory agnosia, verbal agnosia, illusions & hallucinations * Memory, emotion & behavior: loss of short & long term memory, aggressive behavior, lack of interest (depression) * Seizures, vertigo, abnormal perception of time, di