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Central Nervous System (CNS)   Brain: frontal, parietal, temporal & occipital lobes, and spinal cord  
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Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)   12 pairs of cranial nerves, 31 pairs of spinal nerves  
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# brain lobes   4 lobes  
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frontal lobe   motor activity & speech (broca's area)  
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frontal lobe   autonomic activity (respiratory, GI, GU)  
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frontal lobe   learning  
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frontal lobe   judgement  
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frontal lobe   moral values  
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frontal lobe   personality  
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frontal lobe   behavior  
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parietal lobe   controls sensation  
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parietal lobe   light touch  
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parietal lobe   2-point discrimination  
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parietal lobe   sterognosis  
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parietal lobe   body imagery  
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parietal lobe   position sense  
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temporal lobe   hearing (wernicke's area)  
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wernicke's area   ability to interpret words (like speaking another language)  
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broca's area   ability to find and use words (CVA pt says "Q-tip" instead of "pencil")  
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temporal lobe   smell  
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temporal lobe   taste  
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temporal lobe   vestibular functioning (balance)  
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temporal lobe   interpret sensations and produce appropriate emotions  
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occipital lobe   controls visual perception  
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occipital lobe   recognition/interpretation of visual stimuli  
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occipital lobe   storehouse for visual memory and association  
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cerebellum   motor coordination  
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cerebellum   equilibrium  
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cerebellum   muscle tone  
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cerebellum   coordination & smooth muscle movement  
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cerebellum   does not initiate movement, just makes it smooth movement  
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brainstem (components)   midbrain, pons, medulla  
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midbrain   contains many motor neuron and tracts  
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pons   enlarged area containing ascending and descending fiber tracts  
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medulla   vital autonomic centers -respiration, heart fxn, GI fxn  
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medulla   nuclei for CN VIII-XII  
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levels of consciousness   alert, lethargy, obtundation, stupor, coma  
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alert   awake and responsive  
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lethargy   somnolent, but can carry on a convo & fxn  
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obtundant   rousable to voice  
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stupor   rousable to physical stimuli (painful)  
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coma   responds to physical stimuli with primitive reflexes  
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coma scale- guide to assess pt /c head injury & inc. ICP   Glasgow's- eye opening, verbal response, motor response  
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expressive aphasia   inability to talk; can comprehend & follow commands; FRONTAL  
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receptive aphasia   inabilty to follow commands; pt speaks but response does not follow context- lack of comprehension; TEMPORAL  
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global aphasia   inability to talk and follow commands  
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inability to understand written language   occipital lobe damage  
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31 pairs of spinal nerves =   8 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, 1 coccygeal  
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descending neural pathways   motor (efferent) pathway  
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pyramidal tract   small movement  
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extrapyramidal tract   large movement  
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cerebellar tract   smooths movement  
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loss of muscle tone   flaccidity  
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increase of muscle tone   spasticity/rigidity  
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cerebellum function   RAM, FNF, HS  
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ascending neural pathway   sensory (afferent) pathway  
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posterior column   position, vibration, fine touch  
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spinothalamic tract (lateral)   pain, temperature  
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spinothalamic tract (anterior)   crude touch (sharp v. dull)  
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kinesthesia (proprioception)   position of extremities (finger is up or down?)  
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graphesthesia   draw invisible number on pt hand, pt identifies  
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stereognosis   pt closes eyes, identifies common object in hand (key)  
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CN 1   olfactory  
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CN 2   optic  
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CN 3   oculomotor  
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CN 4   trochlear  
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CN 5   trigeminal  
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CN 6   abducens  
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CN 7   facial  
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CN 8   acoustic  
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CN 9   glossopharyngeal  
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CN 10   vagus  
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CN 11   spinal  
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CN 12   hypoglossal  
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CN I fxn   sensory- smell  
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CN II fxn   sensory- vision  
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CN III fxn   mixed- EOMs & pupil constricion/lens shape  
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CN IV fxn   motor- EOM  
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CN V fxn   mixed- muscles of mastication, sensation of face/scalp/cornea  
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CN VI fxn   motor- EOM  
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CN VII fxn   mixed- facial movement (smile), taste ant. 2/3 tongue  
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CN VIII fxn   sensory- hearing  
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CN IX fxn   mixed- larynx/pharynx motion & gag reflex, taste post. 1/3 tongue  
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CN X fxn   mixed- larynx/pharynx motion, sensation from carotid body  
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CN XI fxn   motor- head/neck ROMs  
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CN XII fxn   motor- stick out tongue  
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deep tendon reflexes   biceps, triceps, brachioradialis, knee, ankle  
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superficial tendon reflexes   abdominal, cremastic (groin tickle), plantar  
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ankle clonus   pump ankle for 30 seconds then hold dorsiflexed; if ankle still pushes, clonus indicates upper motor neuron disease  
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babinski response   (+) toes flex out when bottom of foot is tickled  
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