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NEUROFISIOLOGIA E PATOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI COGNITIVI: Il Lobo Temporale
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What are we doing with our
brains at this moment?’
• Feeling your chair
• Squirming (moving)
• Watching
• Listening
• Remembering
• Paying attention
• Writing
• Feeling anxious
• Feeling hungry
• What happens when you ask a question?
• Learning
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What are we doing with our
brains at this moment?’
• Feeling your chair
• Squirming (moving)
• Watching (me, slides, mobile, the lady on the right)
• Listening
• Remembering
• Paying attention
• Writing
• Feeling anxious
• Feeling hungry
• What happens when you ask a question?
• Learning
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Lobi e solchi degli emisferi cerebrali
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Localizzazione dell’insula , visibile aprendo la scissura di Silvio ( solco laterale)
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insula and Sylvian fissure
Insula is responsible for: ‘gut feelings’ like sense of nausea and disgust,
interoception (feeling internal organs), emotional awarness.
Sylvian fissure runs between parietal and temporal lobes horizontaly
towards junction with occipital lobe. It contains supratemporal plane that
hosts primary and secondary auditory cortex and part of Wernicke’s area
for speech comprehension.
Major lobes – hidden and visible
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AREE CORTICALI
MONOMODALI PRIMARIE: sensitive primarie, motoria primaria
MONOMODALI SECONDARIE : sensitive secondariemotorie secondarie
AREE ETEROMODALI : aree associative frontali, parietali, temporali
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Aree motorie, uditive, somatosensitive, visive , olfattive e associative negli emisferi di 3 diversi mammiferi.
Si può notare l’enorme aumento nelll’uomo delle aree associative
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Le aree corticali motorie, uditive, somatosensitive, visive , olfattive sono aree primarie strettamente correlate con il mondo esterno
( sensitivo-motorie)
Nell’uomo le aree associative consentono un elaborazione avanzata degli stimoli interni/esterni
Vengono divise in unimodali ( es aree 18-19 corteccia visiva)e eteromodali o multimodali che sono correlate a funzione di
integrazione
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AREE ASSOCIATIVE ETEROMODALI
• CORTECCIA PREFRONTALE
• CORTECCIA PARIETALE POSTEROINFERIORE
• CORTECCIA TEMPORALE LATERALE
• GIRO PARAIPPOCAMPALE
• convergenza di tutti gli stimoli dalle aree unimodali
• controllo sistema limbico e centri sottocorticali
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LOBO TEMPORALE
giro temporale superiore
giro temporale medio
giro temporale inferiore
giro fusiforme ( occipito-temporale)
Funzioni: integrazione uditiva, linguaggio (porzione posteriore del giro
superiore, area di Wernicke)
funzioni visuospaziali, apprendimento e memoria
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Sylvian fissure-
Post central
sulcus posterior
limit of primary sensory area in parietal lobe
Gyrus supra marginalis ( parietal lobe)
Wernicke’s
area belongs to
superior temporal gyrus
Superior temporal gyrus
Superior temporal sulcus
Inferior temporal sulcus
Middle temporal gyrus Inferior
temporal gyrus
Terminal branch sylvian fissure
External part of the temporal lobe on a dissected brain
With a blue arrow: gyrus
With a red arrow: sulcus
Heschl’s
gyrusexternal part of primary auditive area
Central sulcus limit
between frontal and parietal lobe and posterior limit of primary motor area
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Lingual gyrus and fusiform gyrus belong to the temporo occipital area
Collateral sulcus
Collateral sulcus
Ento rhinal sulcus
Temporal pole
Amygdaloid nucleus
Arbitrary delineation between parahippocampal gyrus and lingual gyrus
Parahippocampal gyrus
Lingual gyrus
Fusiformgyrus
MidbrainMRI on horizontal plane of the temporal lobe
The course of the collateral sulcus may be interrupted in some part of its course
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Fasci di associazione tra le diverse aree corticali (DTI)
A, arcuate (superior longitudinal) fasciculus; C, cingulum; EC, extreme capsule; F, fornix and stria
terminalis ; H, hippocampus; IL, inferior longitudinal fasciculus; IO, inferior occipitofrontal
fasciculus; P, putamen; SO, superior occipitofrontal fasciculus (combined with the subcallosal
fasciculus adjacent to it); Th, thalamus; U, uncinate fasciculus.
I sistemi di connessione
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SINDROMI DA DISCONNESSIONE:
INTERRUZIONE DELLE CONNESSIONI
TRA AREE UNIMODALI/ ETEROMODAI DIVERSE( es.: anomia per i colori)
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http://www.nfos.org/degree/opt41/3
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Dalle connessioni tra le diverse aree cerebrali nascono reti specifiche.
• Linguaggio
• Attenzione spaziale
• Funzioni esecutive e comportamento
• Emozioni e memoria
• Riconoscimento di facce e oggetti
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Localization of function in the nervous
system: Functional networks
5 major brain systems subserving
cognition and behavior
Left perisylvian language network
Parieto-frontal network for spatial attention
Occipitotemporal network for object/face recognition
Medial temporal/limbic network for learning & memory
Prefrontal network for attention & comportment
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Lateralization of functions(approximate)
• Left-hemisphere:
– Sequential analysis
• Analytical
• Problem solving
– Language and
communication – Emotional functions
• Recognizing emotions
• Expressing emotions
– Music Competence
• Right-hemisphere:– Simultaneous analysis
• Synthetic
– Visual-Spatial skills
• Cognitive maps
• Personal space
• Facial recognition
• Drawing
– Emotional functions
• Perceiving emotions
• Showing emotions
– Music perception
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SUONI E LINGUAGGIO
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Onward to the Brain!
• Organ of Corti transmits signals to the cochlear nerve
• Medulla
– Cochlear Nucleus to Superior Olivary Complex
• Lateral Lemniscus fiber bundle carries information to the inferior colliculus
• Proceeds to the Medial Geniculate Nucleus of the thalamus and on to the auditory cortex
http://www.neuroreille.com/promenade/english/ptw/zoom1.htm
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Auditory cortex• In humans primary auditory
cortex is located within Heschl’s gyrus.
– Heschl’s gyrus corresponds to Brodmann’s area 41.
• Another important region in auditory cortex is planum temporale located posterior to Heschl’s gyrus.
– Planum temporale is much larger in the left hemisphere (up to 10 times) in right handed individuals.
– It plays important role in language understanding.
• Posterior to planum temporale is Broadmann area 22 that Carl Wernicke associated with speech comprehension (Wernicke area).
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Binder and colleagues (1997) studied activation of brain areas to words, reverse speech and pseudowords and found that Heschl’s gyrus and the planum temporale were activated similarly for all stimuli.
This supports the notion of hierarchical processing of sounds with Heschl’s gyrus representing early sensory analysis.
Speech signals activated larger portion of auditory cortex than non-speech sounds in posterior superior temporal gyrus and superior temporal sulcus, but there was no difference in activation between words, pseudowords and reversed speech.
The conclusion is that these regions do not reflect semantic processing of the words but reflect phonological processing of the speech sounds.
Speech perception
Brain response to: Words
Pseudowords
Reversed speech
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The planum temporale (PT) location close to Wernicke’s area for speech comprehension, points towards its role as the site for auditory speech and language processing.
However neuroimaging studies of PT provide evidence that functional role of PT is not limited to speech.
PT is a hub for auditory scene analysis, decoding sensory inputs and comparing them to memories and past experiences.
PT further directs cortical processing to decode spatial location and auditory object identification.
Planum temporale and its major associations: lateral superior temporal gyrus (STG), superior temporal sulcus (STS), middle temporal gyrus (MTG),
parieto-temporal operculum (PTO), inferior parietal lobe (IPL).
Functional mapping of auditory processing
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Auditory objects are categorized into human voices, musical instruments, animal sounds, etc.
Auditory objects are learned over our lifetime, and associations are stored in the memory.
Auditory areas in superior temporal cortex are activated both by recognized and unrecognized sounds.
Recognized sounds also activate superior temporal sulcus and middle temporal gyrus (MTG).
Functional mapping of auditory processing
Fig. (c) shows difference between
Activations for recognized sounds
and unrecognized sounds
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Binder and colleagues propose that middle temporal gyrus (MTG) is the region that associates sounds and images.
This is in agreement with case studies of patients who suffered from auditory agnosia (inability to recognize sounds).
Research results showed that auditory object perception is a complex process and involves multiple brain regions in both hemispheres.
Functional mapping of auditory processing
Brain activities in auditory
processing – cross sections at
different depth
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Function source : Palmer & Hall, 2002
• Numerous bilateral regions are
frequency-dependent
• Overlapping regions are
sensitive to intensity and to the
temporal changes in sound
• One region is sensitive to the
spatial properties of sound
(R>L)
• Speech also activates these
regions, but neurons are
probably responding to the
complex acoustic properties in
the sound.
•Perceptual attributes may be
important
Slow-rate temporal pattern in sound
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Auditory Cortex
• Tonotopic Organization
– Different frequencies
of sound are mapped to
different regions of the
auditory cortex
– Extends to the level
of the cochlea
Zhou, X. and M. M. Merzenich (2007).
"Intensive training in adults refines A1
representations degraded in an early
postnatal critical period." Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences 104(40):
15935-15940.
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• Sound intensity and activation
• Loud sounds (90 dB) activated posterior and medial temporal gyrus (red)
• Soft (70 dB) sounds activated area (yellow) is found most laterally of TTG
• Medium intensity (82 dB) sounds activated intermediate area (green). (NeuroImage 2002;17: 710)
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Auditory agnosia
• A deficit in recognition
Acoustical analysis RepresentationsAuditory
input
Perception Recognition
“Apperceptive
agnosia”
“Associative
agnosia”
Auditory agnosia is of this type
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• sordità verbale pura ( lesione bitemporale o sinistra, area 22)
• agnosia acustica ( area acustica secondaria)
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What is Language?
• Grammar– Phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics
• Symbol usage• Ability to represent real-world situations• Ability to articulate something new• Intention to communicate• Duality, productivity, arbitrariness, interchangeability,
specialization, displacement, and cultural transmission (Linden 1974)
“An infinitely open system of communication” Rumbaugh, 1977
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W. W. Norton
Schematic representation of the
components that are involved in
spoken and written language
comprehension.
Input can enter via either auditory
(spoken word) or visual (written word)
modalities.
The flow of info is bottom up, from
Perceptual identification to
“higher-level” word and lemma
activation.
Interactive models of language
Understanding would predict top-down
influence to play a role as well.
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Speech Production
Outline of the theory of
speech production developed by
William Levelt (1999)
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Brain areas involved in Language
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Wernicke-Geschwind Model1. Repeating a spoken word
• Arcuate fasciculus is the bridge from the Wernicke’s
area to the Broca’s area
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Wernicke-Geschwind Model2. Repeating a written word
• Angular gyrus is the gateway from visual cortex to Wernicke’s
area
• This is an oversimplification of the issue:
– not all patients show such predicted behavior (Howard, 1997)
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Functional neuroimaging of the language
network
One to many, many to oneCJ Price, J Anat 2002
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Language function: Using neuroimaging
to test hypotheses
CJ Price, J Anat 2002
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fMRI:Record during
language tasks
– Activated brain areas
consistent with temporal
and parietal language
areas
– More activity than
expected in nondominant
hemisphere
Brain Imaging
Generate words from a category
Silently repeat a heard sentence
Listen to a story
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Slide 42
Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 3rd Ed, Bear, Connors, and Paradiso Copyright © 2007 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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A functional MRI protocol for localizing language comprehension in
the human brainGary W. Thickbrooma ,*, Michelle L. Byrnesa, David J. Blackerb, Ian T. Morrisc,
a,b,d Frank L. Mastaglia
Brain Research Protocols 10 (2003) 175–180
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TONE DECISION TASK
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Semantic decision
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PET by Damasio’s
• Different areas of left hemisphere (other than Broca’s and Wernicke’s regions) are used to name (1) tools, (2) animals, and (3) persons
• Stroke studies support this claim
• Three different regions in temporal lobe are used
• ERP studies support that word meaning are on temporal lobe (may originate from Wernicke’s area):– “the man started the car engine and stepped on
the pancake”
– Takes longer to process if grammar is involved
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LETTURA
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Neural systems for reading
• Converging evidence indicates three important systems in reading, all primarily in the left hemisphere-
– Some right hemisphere activation now implicated;
• These include an anterior system and two posterior systems:
1) anterior system in the left inferior frontal region;
2) dorsal parietotemporal system involving angular gyrus, supramarginal gyrus and posterior portions of the superior temporal gyrus;
3) ventral occipitotemporal system involving portions of the middle temporal gyrus and middle occipital gyrus
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Dorsal (Green) and Ventral Pathways (Purple)
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Written language neural
pathway
• Visual input transmitted from lateral geniculate to primary cortex in striate areas and secondary extrastriate cortex.
• From here 2 streams-
– Ventral (what): unimodal visual area of fusiform gyrus (may contain ortho reps of words)
– Dorsal (where): superior parietal lobule for spatial aspects of reading.
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Heteromodal areas
• Wernicke’s including angular gyrus, supramarginal gyrus
– Likely responsible for integration of written & spoken word
forms.
– Wernicke’s is massively connected to inferior temporal
category specific areas for faces animals, tools
– Also with frontal areas for overt speech production
(Broca’s), and reciprocal connections for memory and
manipulating verbal information.
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Confirmed two systems for reading
• word analysis
– operating on individual units of words such as phonemes, requiring attentional resources and processing relatively slowly
• Parietotemporal area
and
• visual word attention
– an obligatory system that does not require attention and processes very rapidly, on the order of 150 msec after a word is read; Price et al 1996.
• Occipitotemporal area
• visual word form area appears to respond preferentially to rapidly presented stimuli (Price et al 1996) and is engaged even when the word has not been consciously perceived (Dehaene et al 2001).
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Due sistemi corticali: dorsale e ventrale
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Cellular responses in ventral stream
• V2-V4 especially orientation & color sensitive
– V4 contains color sensitive cells
– some have complex preferred stimuli
• Inferior temporal cortex (IT) is form sensitive
– big receptive fields (up to entire visual field)
– face selective cells in some regions
– others respond best to complex, 3D stimuli (Tanaka)
www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~mgilzen/85219/slides/Week8a.ppt
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Effects of lesions to ventral stream
• Animal studies– Damage to P pathway inputs abolishes color
perception
– Damage to IT impairs discrimination between objects and identification
• Human patients– Achromatopsia
• Loss of color perception
• Associated with damage to lingual and fusiform gyri
– Agnosia• Apperceptive
• Associative
• Prosopagnosia
www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~mgilzen/85219/slides/Week8a.ppt
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PERCEZIONE VISIVA
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Visual processing streams: Confirmation
of hypotheses using neuroimaging
Ungerleider LG, PNAS 1998
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Visual processing: Attention influences
which stream is used
Ungerleider LG, PNAS 1998
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Encoding & recall of category-
specific information
Encoding of category-specific information activates
relevant areas of cortex
Polyn SM et al., Science, 2005
Faces: Fusiform gyrus Places: Parahippocampal gyrus
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Visual object recognition: Faces & places
Kanwisher N, Science, 2006
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Fusiform Face Area (FFA)
• functional brain imaging investigations of the normal human brain show that a region in the fusiform gyrus is not only activated when subjects view faces, but is activated twice as strongly for faces as for a wide range of non-face stimuli (Kanwisher et al., 1997)
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IL LOBO LIMBICO TEMPORALEL’altra faccia della luna
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Functions of The Limbic System
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LOBO LIMBICOgiro del cingologiro paraippocampalegiro paraterminale ( lamina terminalis)giro subcallosaleippocampo, paraippocampo, uncus
Emozioni, apprendimento , memoria
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Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL)
• Hippocampus
• Connected areas
– Entorhinal cortex
– Perirhinal cortex
– Parahippocampal cortex
Bird & Burgess, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 182-194
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Function of MTL• Principally concerned with memory
• Operates with neocortex to establish and maintain long-term memory
• Ultimately, through a process of consolidation, becomes independent of long-term memory
MTL
Simons & Spiers (2003) Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4; 637-648
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STRUTTURA DELL’IPPOCAMPOA: ricostruzione dell’ippocampo e del fornice.
B : struttura del giro dentato e del corno d’Ammone
C, sezione coronale del giro dentato, ippocampo e subiculum
D, diagramma delle cellule e fibre dell’ippocampo Le fibre efferenti dall’ippocampo si originano da cellule piramidali . La maggior parte delle efferenze originano dal subiculum.Il flusso di informazioni proviene maggiormente dalla corteccia entorinale > giro dentato> cellule piramidali dell’ippocampo e subiculum> fornice
Nel giro dentato dono presenti cellule staminali.
(B, modified from Duvernoy HM: The human hippocampus: functional anatomy, vascularization and serial sections with MRI, ed 3, Berlin, 2005, Springer-Verlag. C, modified from Nolte J, Angevine JB Jr: The human brain in photographs and diagrams, ed 3, St. Louis, 2007, Mosby.)
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• CA1 > CA4 = zone del corno d’Ammone ( ippocampo = corno d’Ammone + giro dentato)
• Paraippocampo = subiculum + corteccia entorinale
Settore CA1 del C.Ammone = settore di SOMMER : compostoa da grandi cellule piramidali,
Con metabolismo molto attivo, alta densita di recettori NMDA, estrema sensibillità all’ipossia,
Marcato potenziamento post-sinaptico ( 2 ore per singolo stimolo in arrivo)
Memoria sinaptica
Neuroplasticità
Crisi epilettiche
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Connessioni anatomiche dell’ippocampo
Input e out
dell’ippocampo:è una struttura nervosa
della regione
temporale mediale
Gli input
all’ippocampo:arrivano tramite
stazioni di
ritrasmissione nelle
corteccie peririnali,
paraippocampali ed
entorinali
Le uscite
dall’ippocampo:seguono il percorso
opposto. Gli input-
output sotto-corticali
dell’ippocampo
viaggiano nel fornice
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AFFERENZE DELL’IPPOCAMPO:
• corteccia entorinale ( bulbo olfattorio)
• amigdala
• nuclei settali
• ippocampo controlaterale
• locus coerulus
. (Modified from an illustration in Warwick R, Williams PL: Gray's anatomy, Br ed 35, Philadelphia, 1973, WB Saunders.)
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EFFERENZE DELL’IPPOCAMPO
• Fornice ( attraverso il fornice le informazioni provenienti dall’ippocampo
raggiungono i corpi mammilari,il nucleo anteriore e mediodorsale del talamo,
il cingolo)
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Papez Circuit (memory)
Mammillary bodies
Other hypothalamic nuclei
Septal nuclei
Substantia innominata
(Basal nucleus of Meynert)
Hippocampal Formation
(hippocampus
and dentate gyrus)
Anterior Thalamic
nuclear group
Cortex of Cingulate GyrusParahippocampal Gyrus
Neocortex
FornixMammillothalamic
tract
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The Papez circuit.
The shortcut from the hippocampus directly to the anterior thalamic nucleus,
not part of the circuit as originally proposed, is indicated by a dashed line. A,
anterior thalamic nucleus; CA, hippocampus proper; D, dentate gyrus; MB,
mammillary body. (Modified from an illustration in Warwick R, Williams PL: Gray's anatomy, Br ed 35, Philadelphia, 1973, WB Saunders.)
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IPPOCAMPO E MEMORIA
Nel 1957 un paziente di nome H.M. fu trattato chirurgicamenteper epilessia resistente alla terapia farmacologica con asportazione bilateraledell’ippocampo e dell’amigdala.
HM soffri da quel momento di un grave disturbo della memoria episodica
Dopo molti anni dall’intervento il paziente fu sottoposto a RM encefalo.
Il suo caso dimostrò in modo conclusivo il ruolo fondamentale dellaparte mediale del lobo temporale nella memoria
HM
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AMIGDALA
L’amigdala è un insieme di circa 12 nuclei situati in prossimità dell’uncus, vicino alla parte anteriore dell’ippocampo, e accanto al corno temporale del ventricolo laterale .
Origina dalla corteccia periamigdaloidea , che forma parte della superficie del’uncus.
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I nuclei dell’amigdala vengono classificati in 3 principali gruppi : mediale, centrale e basolaterale, ognuno con diverse funzioni.
Nucleo mediale: è connesso con il sistema olfattorio ed è piuttosto piccolo negli esseri umani.
Nucleo centrale : collegato all’ipotalamo e alla sostanza grigia periacqueduttale ha funzioni emozionali
Nucleo basolaterale: è il nucleo più grande negli esseri umani, contiene cellule piramidali ed è strettamente collegato agli altri nuclei
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Suddivisione dell’amigdala nei
principali nuclei (basolaterale,
centrale e mediale) con le
principali connessioni.
( PH, parahippocampal gyrus)
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Amygdala Connections
Cerebral cortex
Olfactory system
Thalamus
Brainstem reticular formation
Hypothalamus
AMYGDALA
Stria
terminalis
Ventral Amygdalofugal
fibers
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Amygdala Inputs
AMYGDALA
Corticomedial Nuclear
Group
Basolateral Nuclear
Group
Central Nucleus
Olfactory
System
Temporal Lobe
(associated with visual,
auditory, tactile senses)
Brainstem (viscerosensory relay
Nuclei: solitary nucleus
and parbrachial nucleus)
Ventral
Amygdalofugal
Fibers
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Maggiori input ai nuclei basolaterale(blu), centrale(rosso) e mediale
(verde) dell’amigdala.
Sono evidenziati gli input dalle aree visive , ma simili proiezioni
esistono dalle principali aree unimodali e dalle altre aree limbiche.
B, brainstem (periaqueductal gray, parabrachial nuclei, other nuclei);
Hy, hypothalamus; S, septal nuclei; T, thalamus (multiple nuclei). (Modified from Warwick R, Williams PL: Gray's anatomy, Br ed 35, Philadelphia, 1973, WB Saunders.)
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Principali efferenze dai nuclei dell’amigdala ( blu= basolaterale;rosso=centrale; verde=
mediale)
(1) stria terminalis: verso i nuclei del setto e l’ipotalamo
(2) Via amigdalofugale e Via amigdalofugale ventrale ( ipotalamo e talamo MD)
(3) proiezioni diffuse alla corteccia frontale ventromediale , corteccia insulare, striato
ventrale, aree olfattorie , tronco encefalico .
(4) connessioni dirette con l’ippocampo e il lobo temporale.(Modified from Warwick R, Williams PL: Gray's anatomy, Br ed 35, Philadelphia, 1973, WB Saunders.)
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Riepilogando:
L’amigdala riceve una gran quantità di input :
1. Molti di questi sono semplici e famigliari, riguardando stimoli visivi,
suoni, stimoli tattili, odori e.
Gli stimoli olfattivi raggiungono direttamente il nucleo mediale , dalla
corteccia e bulbo olfattorio ( tratto olfattorio).
Gli altri tipi di stimoli raggiungono il nucleo basolaterale dal talamo e
dalle cortecce unimodali visiva, uditiva, gustativa e somatosensitiva.
2. Un altro tipo di stimolo arriva all’amigdala dall’insula, dal cingolo e dalla
corteccia orbitofrontale ( via amigdalofugale)
3.Infine l’amigdala riceve input viscerali provenienti dall’ipotalamo ( stria
terminalis) e dal tronco encefalico ( grigio periacqueduttale ,
n.parabrachiale)
Le efferenze dall’amigdala raggiungono le stesse aree da cui l’amigdala
riceve degli input
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Limbic System and Basal Nuclei
Medial and lateral temporal lobe
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Entorhinal cortex (24)
Ventral Striatum
(nucleus accumbens)
Caudate Nucleus
(head)
Anterior Cingulate Gyrus
Orbitofrontal Areas (10, 11)
Ventral Pallidum
Medial Globus Pallidus
Pars Reticularis
(Substantia nigra)
Ventral Anterior Nucleus
Dorsomedial Nucleus
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Functions of the Amygdala
• Relate environmental stimuli to
coordinated behavioral autonomic and
endocrine and motor responses seen in
species-preservation.
• Responses include:Feeding and drinking
Agnostic (fighting) behavior
Mating and maternal care
Responses to physical or emotional stresses.
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La connessione limbica tra amigdala e gangli della base influenza le decisioni riguardo al movimento e, più in generale, è necessaria per l’associazione stimolo-ricompensa.
Qualsiasi cosa possa apparire piacevole determina un aumento di rilascio di dopamina nello striato che si traduce successivamente in un’azione; avviene il contrario per ciò che consideriamo spiacevole
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Neuro-anatomy of hedonic regulation of food intake; reward (or pleasure) seeking areas of the brain control orexigenic neurons of LHA
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L’amigdala, attraverso le sue connessioni , in particolare con la corteccia frontoventromediale e l’ipotalamo, svolge un ruolo fondamentale nella vita emotiva.
Quando l’amigdala di un animale viene stimolata l’animale si ferma e rimane attento: a ciò può far seguito una risposta di difesa, rabbia, aggressione, o di fuga
La stimolazione dell’amigdala nell’uomo evoca più spesso paura accompagnata dalle reazioni vegetative corrispondenti .
La distruzione bilaterale dell’amigdala determina un assenza di paura e di aggressività con mancanza di reazioni vegetative .
L’assenza congenita dell’amigdala impedisce l’apprendimento di reazioni comportamentali complesse in risposta a determinate situazioni
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LA PATOLOGIA
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Symptoms of Temporal-Lobe Lesions
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Pathologies (lesions)
• Voracious appetite
• Increased (perverse) sexual activity
• Docility:
Loss of normal fear/anger response
• Memory loss:
Damage to hippocampus portion:Cells undergoing calcium-induced changes associated with memory
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Temporal lobectomy• Brown and Schäfer (1888) reported
behaviour of monkey ‘Tame one’ after bilateral temporal lobectomy.
• Preop: wild, fierce
• Postop: – Does not retaliate or escape if slapped,
tame
– Poor memory and intelligence
– Evidence of hearing and seeing, but ‘no longer clearly understands meaning of sights, sounds.’
– Does not select raisins from other food in dish: does not seem to visually recognize items.
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Kluver-Bucy Syndrome:
• Results from bilateral destruction of
amygdala.
• Characteristics:
Increase in sexual activity.
Compulsive tendency to place objects in mouth.
Decreased emotionality.
Changes in eating behavior.
Visual agnosia.
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Delusional Misidentification
Syndromes• 3 DMS:
1. Pick [1903] “reduplicative paramnesia”• Misidentifies familiar places as replica
2. Capgras Syndrome [1923] • Familiar people described as doppelgangers
– visual but not emotional recognition
3. Frégoli Syndrome [1927]• Person misidentified as someone else with totally different
appearance.
• DMS are rare– Rare enough to be of little clinical importance
– Yet, may still reveal how emotions are processed
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Hirstein and Ramachandran
[1997] • H&R postulate that DMS is caused by
disconnection between visual recognition
system and emotional system.
• E.G. Capgras syndrome due to
disconnection between fusiform gyrus
[face area] and amygdala [limbic system]
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Hudson and Grace
• 71 women suffered lesion to anterior fusiform gyrus (between face area and amygdala)– Frégoli Syndrome
• Identified husband as elder sister (who had died 3 years previously)
• Only visual misidentification (fine on phone)
• Home was ‘replica’ would pack bags to return to ‘real’ home.
• Support for H&R
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Pain asymbolia
• Patient’s report they can feel pain, but it no
longer hurts.
• Ramachandran (1998): speculates
disconnection of insula from cingulate
(part of limbic system)
– Insula identifies pain
– Cingulate does not receive signal, so
discounts threat
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I DISTURBI ACUSTICI E DI LINGUAGGIO
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Auditory agnosia source : Griffiths et al. 1999
• Normal brainstem processing
• Midbrain impairment questionable
• Cortical deficit in perception- Preserved hearing (pure tones)
- Disordered perception of certain sounds :
Speech - word deafness
Music - amusia
Environmental sounds - environmental sound agnosia
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A case of word deafness source: Ellis & Young, 1988
• Hemphill and Stengel (1940) “I can hear you dead plain, but I cannot get what you say. The noises are not quite natural. I can hear but not understand”
- Normal pure tone audiometry
- Fluent speech “no errors of grammar beyond what is common for hisparticular dialect and standard of education”
- Normal reading
- Normal writing and spelling
- Poor spoken word repetition
- Gross asymmetry between spoken and written word comprehension
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Word deafness source : Ellis & Young, 1988
• Associated symptoms- Some hearing loss (> 20 dB HL)
- Production (Broca’s) aphasia
- Perception of melody
- Perception of environmental sounds
• Lesion site- Generally large bilateral infarcts
- When unilateral, it’s more often the left hemisphere
- Involves superior temporal lobe (non-primary auditory cortex)
- May or may not involve Heschl’s gyrus (primary auditory cortex)
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A case of amusia source : Peretz, 1993
Patient CN
• Symptoms- Unable to recognise even simplest tune
- Unable to sing children’s songs that she had known well
- No deficit in everyday verbal communication
- No deficit in everyday recognition of environmental sounds
• Lesion site- Bilateral temporal lobe damage
- When unilateral, it’s more often the right hemisphere
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Amusia source : Peretz, 1993
• Dissociation within musical perception- Right injury - Deficit in melody perception: the variations in pitch
- Left injury - Deficit in rhythmperception: the temporalorganisation of melody over 100s ofmilliseconds or seconds time scale
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Environmental sound agnosia
• Deficit rarely occurs in isolationsource : Griffiths et al. 1999
Environmental sounds contain fewer changes in acoustic structure over time
than an equivalent length segment of speech or music
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A common deficit? No! source : Peretz, 1993
• Word deafness, amusia and environmental sound agnosia are distinct- speech and music can dissociate after brain damage
- music and environmental sounds can dissociate after brain damage
- environmental sound perception can be selectively spared
- recovery can follow different patterns (e.g. environmental sounds, then music then speech or in the reverse order)
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A common deficit? Yes! source : Griffiths et al. 1999
• Word deafness, amusia and environmental sound agnosia probably co-occur- May not always be report because not all abilities are tested
• All 3 types of sound contain a mixture of acoustic features
• Deficit in an intermediate level of analysis, which is rarely tested- Analysing the spectro-temporal pattern in sound
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Symptoms
(a) Rightward biases in sound localization
(b) Poor relative judgements for sounds on the contralesional side
(c) Poor elevation judgements for sounds on the contralesional side
Failure to detect contralesional sound, when presented concurrently
Poor allocation of attention to sounds separated in time
Auditory neglect source : Pavani et al., 2003
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Lesion site – usually right hemisphere
- inferior parietal lobe
- superior temporal gyrus
- temporo-parietal junction
Auditory neglect source : Pavani et al., 2003
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Quadro riassuntivo
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Summary: Correlations of symptomswith areas of lesion
Broca’s Broca’s area
Wernicke’s Wernicke’s area
ConductionSMG, Insula,
Arcuate fasciculus
Transcortical motorAreas anterior and/or
superior to Broca’s area
Transcortical sensoryAreas posterior and/or
superior to Wernickes a.
Aphasic Syndrome Area of Damage
Cf. H. Damasio 1998: 43-44
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Two different patients with anomia
Deficit in retrieval of animal names
(Damage from stroke)
Inability to retrieve words for unique entities
(Left temporal lobectomy)
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Two more patients with anomia
Deficit in retrieval of words for man-made manipulableobjects
(Damage from stroke)
Severe deficit in retrieval of words for concrete entities
(Herpes simplex encephalitis)
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I DISTURBI AGNOSICI
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Ishyhara plates
Cerebral Achromatopsia
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Color Agnosia
• What causes it?
– Damage to the extrastriate visual cortex, specifically the V4 area.
– The visual area 4 (V4) is cut off from sending information to the lingual gyrus, fusiform gyrus and inferior temporal gyrus.
– Without the ability to send that information to the “What” pathway of the temporal lobe, the color cannot be recognized.
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Achromatopsia is not:
a) due to peripheral damage (e.g. retina)
b) due to primary visual area damage
c) colour agnosia: disorder of colour categorization
d) colour anomia: disorder of colour naming
Cerebral Achromatopsia
Usually caused by bilateral damage to V4
(lingual and fusiform gyri (occipitotemporal junction))
characterized by an inability to identify or discriminate colour
Usually full field deficit but hemiachromatopsia possible if
damage is unilateral
Still able to perceive form and motion - dissociation with
akinetopsia and visual form agnosias
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Damasio et al., (1989b) in Heilman and Rothi (1993)
42 patients.
achromatopsia associated with lesions below
calcarine sulcus that damaged middle third of lingual
gyrus, but not fusiform gyrus
Calcarine sulcus
Lingual Gyrus
Fusiform Gyrus
Which part of V4?
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Prosopagnosia
• Special nature of face processing originates from reports of patients who are reportedly unable to recognize familiar faces while maintaining the ability to recognize objects. – This impairment is often accompanied by focal
damage to the ventral occipitotemporal and temporal cortices.
– Reported to process faces similar to objects (sometimes absence of inversion effects).
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Prosopagnosia
Why just faces? What about objects? Fusiform gyrus responds to faces
Parahippocampal gyrus responds to inanimate objects
Double Dissociation- The areas for recognizing faces and
inanimate objects are separate therefore agnosia for objects and
prosopagnosia do not occur together
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Face Processing:
Cognitive and Neural Components
Bruce & Young
(1986)
Haxby et al., (2000)
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Importance of Facial Configuration
• the importance of the overall configuration of the face can help us understand why face recognition can be remarkably robust despite a variety of natural (change in expression, orientation etc) as well as unnatural (cartoons) transformations in faces.
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Prosopagnosia
• Marotta, Genovese, & Behrmann (2001)
– fMRI of prosopagnosic patient did not show
normal activation of fusiform.
– Did show left hemisphere posterior fusiform
activation, suggesting faces are being processed
featurally.
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Fig. 4-18, p. 83
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Prosopagnosia
George et al. (1999).fMRI study of positive and reverse contrast faces.
Bilateral fusiform gyriresponse to facesRight fusiform gyrus only when face became familiar(Note contrast to Alexia)
Brain region involved
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Image of Left Fusiform Gyrus (Visual Word Form Area -VWFA) and Right Fusiform Gyrus (Weiner et al, 2004.)
The left fusiform gyrus
( referred to as the
visual word form area)
is responsible for
word recognition.
The right fusiform gyrus
is (referred to as the
fusiform face area)
responsible for facial
recognition.
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What Causes Prosopagnosia?
• Damage to occipitaltemporal regions of the brain
– Specifically the fusiform gyrus of the interior temporal cortex
– The cause of damage can be from head injury, degenerative diseases (ex. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease), right temporal lobe atrophy, encephalitis, or strokes (ex. Posterior cerebral artery stroke or transient ischemic attack).
• There is also a genetic form of prosopagnosia that can be passed down from a parent to child. Prosopagnosia can also be the result of a developmental disorder.
• Evolutionarily facial recognition is important – There must be an adaptive benefit for facial recognition. Newborns
show great preference for human faces despite their poor visual acuity. Newborns use eye contact and facial expressions to engage caretakers to take care of their needs. Socially facial recognition became essential to survival because it provides self-identity, identity for group members, and identity for non-group member (could be an enemy?).
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LA MEMORIA
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Memory and Forgetting
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Classificazione dei tipi di memoria.
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Memoria
Esplicita
(dichiarativa) Implicita
Episodica Semantica Procedurale Emotiva
Vegetativa(condizionamento)
• cos’è una bicicletta memoria semantica
• ieri sono andato in bicicletta memoria episodica
• andare in bicicletta dopo 10 anni memoria procedurale
• ho paura della bicicletta ( non so perché) memoria emotiva
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Brain regions in Learning and Memory
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Patient H.M.
• Bilateral temporal lobe resection for treatment of epilepsy.
• Included removal of hippocampus and amygdala from both sides.
• Various etiologies lead to symptoms like H.M.'S, including stroke and herpes
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Case of Patient H. M.
• Age 9, knocked over by a bicycle rider, sustained brain damage
• Age 16, suffered bilateral temporal lobe seizures which became uncontrollable– Unable to work and lead a normal life
• Age 27, underwent bilateral removal of hippocampal formation, amygdala, parts of multimodal association areas of temporal cortex (1953)
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Consequences of Psychosurgery for H.M.
• Positive - seizures better controlled- IQ unaffected; bright- good long term memory for events before the surgery- good command of language including vocabulary- remembered his name and job he held
• Negative • suffered anterograde amnesia -
unable to transfer new short-term memory into long term memory– unable to retain for more than a
minute new people, places or objects
– unable to recognize people he met during surgery including his neurosurgeons
– took a year to learn his way around a new house
- suffered retrograde amnesia for information acquired a few years before surgery
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Patient HM
• Revealed declarative/ nondeclarative distinction
– Declarative memories (explicit memories) involve conscious recollection of events and information.
• H.M. Lost this ability.
– Nondeclarative memories (implicit memories) involve ability to acquire and perform new behaviors or associations.
• H.M. Retained this ability.
– could perform mirror-tracing after training but could not remember doing the task before
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Semantic Dementia (Snowden 1989)
• Semantic memory (Warrington 1975):
• Term applied to the component of long-term memory which contains the permanent representation of our knowledge about things in the world: facts, concepts and words
• Culturally shared, acquired early in life.
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Semantic Dementia (Snowden 1989)
• Affects fundamental aspects of language, memory and object recognition.
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Semantic Dementia
• Progressive anomia, not an aphasia, but a loss of semantic memory.
• Impaired: naming, word comprehension, object recognition and understanding of concepts.
• characterized by preserved fluency and impaired language comprehension: “phonologically and syntactically correct”
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Assessement
• Category fluency
• Generation of definitions– Lion: ” it has little legs and big ears, they sleep a lot, see them in
shops”
• Word-picture matching
• Famous faces test
• Normal episodic memory, normal visuospatial skills
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• Nature of errorSemantic-type naming errors:initially within-category, “elephant” for hippopotamus, then superordinate “dog” for everything, then “animal”…
• Profound and complete anomia
• Circumlocutions and semantic paraphasias
– semantic paraphasias, in which the wrong word is produced, one that is usually related to the target (eg, "pliers" for "hammer").
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• In semantic dementia the most context-free levels of knowledge (constituting traditional notions of semantic memory) are most compromised.
• In contrast, patients may retain knowledge tied to specific experiences or routines
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SD and memory
• Can relate details ( in a rather anomic fashion) of recent events, but there is impaired recall of distant life events.
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SD
• In most cases, neuroradiological studies reveal selective damage to the inferolateral temporal gyri(inferior and middle) of one or both temporal lobes, with sparing of the hippocampi, parahippocampal gyri, and subiculum.
• Note: AD: inferior and middle temporal gyri
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Semantic dementia patient with severe focal atrophy of the left temporal lobe see arrow, right-hand side of MRI scan) involving the pole, inferior, and middle temporal gyri with relative sparing of the hippocampal complex (H) and of the superior temporal gyrus.
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Grazie per l’attenzionefine