All right, so a stroke is a medical emergency where blood flow to the brain is blocked. Imagine you are a neurologist treating stroke patients. You have 4 patients and each has had a stroke in a different lobe of the brain. For each patient, we're going to write down one function that may have been impacted because a stroke in that region. So patient A had a stroke in their occipital lobe and because the occipital lobe is pretty much entirely devoted to vision, a stroke in this area would probably impair vision.
All right, patient B had a stroke in the frontal lobe, and this could really have a variety of impacts. If that stroke was more like the prefrontal region, we may see impairments with cognitions, especially more complex cognitions, things like logical thinking. If it was more in Broca's area, we may see difficulty with speech production. If it was in the primary motor cortex, we may see difficulty with voluntary movement. So, I'm going to write voluntary movement here but really, any of those could have been impacted.
Alright, patient C had a stroke in their temporal lobe. So, if we are thinking temporal lobe, we have the primary auditory cortex, so hearing might be impacted. We also have Wernicke's area, so language comprehension might be impacted, and the temporal lobe is also important for memory. So, I'm just going to write down language comprehension, but again, really, we could see impacts in any of those functions. We have language comprehension there, and then finally, patient D had a stroke in their parietal lobe.
The parietal lobe is really important for sensation, so we have our primary somatosensory cortex in there, and it's also important for spatial processing. I'm just going to write down sensation, but, again, we could be seeing a variety of impacts. Alright. There you guys have it, and I will see you in the next one. Bye bye.