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Neuro Test 1

Ratusnik

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What are the 2 major divisions in the nervous system? Central Nervous System (CNS) Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
What are the 2 functions basis neurons may be categories? Presynaptic Postsynaptic
Divisions of the sub cortical or the brain? 4 Midbrain Pons Medulla oblongata Diencephalon
Individuals neuron and its breakdown into parts? 3 Axon Dendrites Cell body
Cortical Hemispheres and the lobes? 4 Frontal Temporal Parietal Occipital
Limbic System 2 Hippocampus Amygdala
Ventricular System 3 Lateral Ventricles 3rd Ventricle 4th Ventricle
Thalamus and its function it relays sensory info to the appropriate place in the brain lies below the cortex in each hemisphere of the brain
What disorders are associated with the angular and supeamarginal gyri? 4 Alexia reading Agraphia writing Aclculia calculating Aphasia language
Motor tract Pyramidal motor system
Coordination mechanisms for control of motor functions? 2 Basil Ganglia Cerebellum
Stimulated nerve and its conduction? action potential (electrical impulses)
Dendrites and directionality? toward cell body
Synaptic cleft 100 angstroms
UMN if it gets lesion what happens? 2 spastic muscle LMN faccid muscle
Epilepsy Random erratic discharge of action potentials and neurons "acting crazy"
Epilepsy begins in Temporal lobe/Foci
Someone who is epileptic will have a feeling before they have a seizure what is this pre-epileptic event called? Aura
Lateral fissure where is it and what doe it do? right and left hemispheres
What are the 3 levels of meninges that can have disease there protective, keeps the cerebral spinal fluid in, exists in central canal up through the center of the spinal cord?3 dura matter arachnoid pia matter
Area 312 Somatosensory strip in parietal lobe
Blood flow arties Broca's aphasia Middle cerebral artery is clogged
Circle of Willis Provides a mixing of blood b/w the two hemispheres/ spider like structure
2 Cortical hemispheres right left cortical hemispheres (white, long axonic fiber)
Progressive neurological disease Alzheimer's MS Parkinson's
Cortical symbol function Left hemisphere language processing, speech, calculations, verbal meaning Right hemisphere processing and regulating pragmatic skills, visual and spatial concepts
Broadman brain area area 22 Wernicke's perspective of comprehension of speech Motor movements with speech area 44 Broca's
Grammatical and phonological rules linguistic competence long term memory
Aphasia ideation/cognition, symbolization, motor encoding, ascending, transmissive
Paramental motor system cortical bulbar and cortical spinal
Electrical propagation action potential
Color of neural tissue gray
Breakdown of the central nervous system? 4 Cerebral hemispheres Cortex Brain stem Spinal cord
Thalamus location diencephalons
relationship b/w Broca's and Wernickes Arcuate Fasciculus
Aphasia producing lesions 3 ischemia embolic stroke thrombosis
Circle of Willis ins and outs 2 Anterior cerebral artery anterior communicating artery
Relationship b/w 3rd and 4th ventricles? cerebral aqueduct
What are the ventricles filled with? CSF
Relationship b/w the dorsal horn and the motor horn and reflex behavior? internucial neuron
Hescials gyrus area 41&42 auditory cortical tissue temporal love inferior sylvian fissure
Verbal apraxic errors? motor encoding
Relationship b/w neurons? synaptic cleft
Hearing oneself as they talk? auditory feedback
What is a disease that attacks the junction progressively? Alzheimer's
Name the Sulci of the brain? 3 Longitudinal fissure Lateral/Sylvian fissure Central Sulcus
Lower motor neuron synonym? final pathway
Precentral gyrus aka motor strip area 4 Cell of Betz
Synonym for Postcentral gyrus? Somatosensory strip Primary sensory cortex Area 3,1,2
Name the lesion that causes a visual field deficit? Homonamous Hemianopsia
What type of memory is better preserved in Alzheimer's patients? Long term memory preserved over short term memory or recent memory/short term memory is broken
Central sulcus fissure separates frontal and parietal lobe
10th cranial nerve descends and has an superior & inferior branch and the muscular difference that's innervates? cricothyriod
Cranial nerve are part of which nervous system coming and going? Peripheral
Roman numeral number for name cranial nerve? I- OLDFACTORY: SMELL II-OPTIC: VISION III-OCCULOMOTOR: EYE MOVEMENT IV-TROCHLEAR: EYE MOVEMENT V-TRIGEMINAL: SENSORY/MOTOR FACE, TONGUE VI-ABUCENS: EYE MOVEMENT VII-FACIAL: SENSORY VIII-ACOUSTIC:HEARING & BALANCING IX-GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL: SENORY
Roman numeral number for name cranial nerve? CON. X-VAGUS: SENSORY/ MOTOR LARYNX XI-ACCESSORY: MOVEMENT PHARYNX, LARYNX, VELUM XII-HYPOGLOSSAL: TONGUE MOVEMENT
Afferent & Efferent Afferent Sensory brings info to the CNS about sensation and state of body Efferent motor
2nd cranial nerve optic and its pathway? Optic nerve occipital lobe cortex thalamic nuclei
Vagus branch 5 branches 3 afferent 2 efferent
Inferior branch of vagus has a synonym what is it? recurrant
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