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level: Brodmann's Area

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level questions: Brodmann's Area

Question	Answer
Motor speech area	Areas 44 and 45
Pioneered Brodmann’s area	Korbinian Brodmann
Sense and localization of touch, temperature, vibration, pain, sensory perception (two-point discrimination, proprioception, etc.)	Areas 1, 2, 3
Ability to distinguish two separate touches on the skin at the same time (e.g. Which has more sensation? Lips or fingertips?)	Two-point discrimination
Inability to recognize letters or numbers	Agraphesthesia
Inability to identify the object you are touching	Astereognosia
Inability to feel vibration	Pallhypesthesia
Ability to determine your location in space even with eyes closed	Proprioception
The only cell in the epidermis (majority of the receptors are in the dermis)	Merkel cell
Primary motor cortex (Precentral gyrus)	Area 4
Paralysis of the contralateral side of the body, including facial palsy, arm or leg. One limb is very weak, but not completely paralyzed	Monoparesis
Weakness of the entire left or right side of the body	Hemiparesis
Somatosensory association cortex	Area 5
Premotor and Supplementary Motor Cortex	Area 6
Frontal eye fields	Area 8
Dorsolateral / Anterior Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC)	Area 9
Anterior Prefrontal Cortex	Area 10
Orbitofrontal Area	Area 11
Primary visual cortex	Area 17
Secondary Visual Cortex (V2) / Prestriate Cortex	Area 18
Associative Visual Cortex	Area 19
Processing phonological properties of written word	Area 37
Confrontation naming	Areas 18, 19, 37
Sign language	Areas 19 and 37
Inferior Temporal Gyrus	Area 20
Middle Temporal Gyrus	Area 21
Superior Temporal Gyrus (Part of Wernicke's Area)	Area 22
Fusiform Gyrus / Occipitotemporal Gyrus	Area 37
Temporal Poles	Area 38
Angular Gyros	Area 39
Lesion causes language disorders by fluent speech paraphasias where a lot of words are jumbled and nonsensical sentences are spoken	Areas 22, 39 and 40
Sensory area for speech	Wernicke’s Area
Motor speech area	Areas 44 and 45