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In Chapter 27: Irrepressible: Music and the Temporal Lobes, Oliver Sacks describes the case of Vera B., an elderly lady who was a patient of a nursing home in view of medical issues. In 1984, when Sacks met her, he did not find any neurological problems, but was surprised by the way that Vera behaved. She was exuberant—garrulous, jokey, and a little coquettish. Four years later, Sacks saw her again. He found her singing old Yiddish songs and appeared to him that she was abandoning her inhibitions

AD suffered cardiac arrest, which damaged his frontal and temporal lobes. The damage done caused him to alter his personality when in the company of different people; gaining the patient the nick-name “The Human Chameleon.” When AD was in the company of lawyers, he would invent a detailed background story to support his

that the reason Graham doesn’t see anything, but can sense its presence due to damage in the visual cortex. In a case similar to Graham Young, Peggy Palmer suffers from visual neglect caused by a stroke in the parietal lobes of the brain. Dr. Ramachandran explains that parietal lobes create a three dimensional layout of the world around us, which allows us to navigate our direction. The patient can see, but only on one side or the other, i.e. she only sees half of what is really there. During an experiment

“Injury to the front parts of this lobe may cause someone to lose sensation on parts of the body. With an injury in this area, one may become disoriented. Recall of long term memories may be mixed up in time or sequencing. They may become easily lost or confuse left and right. They may have

_Cerebral Cortex_ 10. The lobe of the brain near the temples, which includes the primary auditory cortex and language centers. __Temporal Lobe__ 11. Areas of the brain that are involved in the incorporation of information. _Association Areas 12. The lobe of the brain that is located behind the frontal lobe and includes the somatosensory cortex. __Parietal Lobe_ 13. A system of nerve fibers that links the left and right cerebral hemispheres. __Corpus Collasum_ 14. The lobe of the brain responsible

Medial Temporal Lobe Memory The medial temporal lobe (MTL) has long been known to be involved in different kinds of memory processes. The MTL is a region of the brain comprised of the hippocampus and the entorhinal, perirhinal and parahippocampal cortices.1 Lesions to the MTL results in anterograde amnesia. Patients lose both episodic memory, the ability to remember autobiographical events, as well as recognition memory2. Previous episodic memories are not generally lost with MTL lesions, with

away. He woke up in a hospital room. They doctors told him he had had a seizure again. They were only getting worse, and his medication wasn’t making it any easier. Alex was a nineteen year old college drop-out with what the doctors called temporal lobe epilepsy

Phineas Gage was a railroad worker in the 1800's who was working on blowing up the side of the mountain. This process involved drilling a hole into a rock, filling it with blasting powder, then putting sand on top of the powder before packing it down with an iron rod. One day, Phineas Gage forgot to put sand in the hole, so when he started packing it with the iron rod, it reacted with the blasting powder and created a spark. This caused the iron rod to rocket upward towards Phineas Gage. The explosion

longitudinal fissure, which separates the two hemispheres. The hemispheres further divides into the central fissure and lateral fissure, which create the landmarks known as the four lobes and include the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe and the occipital lobe. The prefrontal cortex or PFC is located in the frontal lobe, which is located at the foremost anterior region of the cerebral hemisphere. Goldberg (2009) describes how the PFC contains interconnections throughout the brain. He mentions

her right side. She completely neglects her left side of her body and external world. This condition is a common neurological syndrome called hemi-neglect seen in post right brain stroke patients like Ellen, especially affecting the right parietal lobe. These patients often manifest sets of odd behaviors. They report not seeing anything on their left side, but are not blind and can receive visual input from both eyes. Sometimes they even notice things in their neglected side when their attention