Criminal Mischief Episode 9: The Mysterious Human Brain

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SHOW NOTES:

Head Trauma
(Direct, Infectious, Anoxic, Vascular)

Physical Abnormalities

Behavioral Changes

Language/Communication

Brain Lobes:

Frontal:
Controls personality, emotions, intellect, judgement, problem solving,
attention, organizing, social skills

Broca’s Area: Speech,
writing, particularly expressing

Parietal:
Controls motor and sensory functions, and helps with vision and hearing

Temporal:
Language, memory, emotions, perceptions

Wernicke’s Area:

Impacts speech formation and understanding

Occipital:
Vision

Aphasia:
Receptive and expressive

Memory:

Short Term: Prefrontal Cortex

Long Term: Hippocampus in Temporal Lobe

Amnesia: Global Partial, Retrograde, Anterograde

LINKS:

Brain Anatomy: https://mayfieldclinic.com/pe-anatbrain.htm

Head Injury and Communication: https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/effects-of-brain-injury/communication-problems/

Aphasia: https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/effects-of-brain-injury/communication-problems/language-impairment-aphasia/

Hannah Jenkins Case:

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