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Neruoscience Exam 1
Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cranial Nerve l | Olfactory Nerve (Nose) |
| Cranial Nerve ll | Optic Nerve (Vision) |
| Cranial Nerve lll | Oculomotor Nerve ( Vision controls aspects of eye movement) |
| Cranial Nerve IV | Trochlear Nerve |
| Cranial Nerve V | Trigeminal Nerve |
| Cranial Nerve VI | Abducens Nerve |
| Cranial Nerve VII | Facial Nerve Nerve |
| Cranial Nerve VIII | Vestibulocolear Nerve |
| Cranial Nerve IX | Gloaaopharyngeal Nerve |
| Cranial Nerve X | Vagus Nerve |
| Cranial Nerve XI | Accessory Nerve |
| Cranial Nerve XII | Hypoglossal Nerve |
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
| Plegia | Paralysis |
| Special views allow better viewing of some structures Contrast material can outline structures | Conventional X-ray |
| Tomography | Uses X-ray tube and Film rotation to create thin slices in one plane |
| Incidence | The number of new cases per year in a given population |
| Paresis | Weakness |
| Neurological disorder is an example of an extrapyramidal disease | Parkinson's Disease |
| Egyptians believed that mental functions were located in .... | Heart |
| Term refers to the total number of current cases in a given population at a point in time | Prevalance |
| School of thought believes that the brain works as an integrative whole | Holism |
| Inflammatory Disease | Meningitis |
| Study of disease processes | Pathology |
| Study of nervous system disease | Neuropathology |
| Difficulty executing things like walking and eating | Activity barriers |
| Theorized that language production was localized to the left frontal lobe | Paul Broca |
| Prehistoric practice of creating a hole in the skull is known as | Trephination |
| Approximately how many people in the world suffer from neurological disorders | 1 billion and 1 in 6 |
| Pioneer in neuroscience worked with a now famous patient Tan | Paul Broca |
| Rhythmic Shaking | Tremors |
| Patient Referes to having ringing in ears is a condition of | Tinnitus |
| Tingling, Burning, Or Prickling sensations are known as | Paresthesia |
| Paralysis on one side of the body is called | Hemiplegia |
| loss of sensation | Anesthesia |
| Athetosis means "like a dance" describes quick, dance-like movements of the hands and or feet | False |
| What is your name? and Why are you here? is testing | Mental Status |
| Tool used by a neurologist to test sensation in foot | Pin |
| Rank of Spatial Resolution Techniques | fMRI PET EEG |
| Saying "Pa Ta Ka" as fast as possible is testing | Diadochokinetic Rate |
| Imaging technique shows brain activity based on the brain's glucose metabolism | PET |
| Actual Physiological seizure even | Ictal |
| An inability to smell | Anosmia |
| Example of a symptom | I have a headache |
| Functional neuroimaging shows brain anatomy while structural imaging shows rain physiology | False |
| Slowed movements referred to | Bradykinesia |
| Loss of vision in one visual field | Hemianopsia |
| School of though believes humans are two substances a material body (brain) and an immaterial soul (mind) | Dualism |
| Demyelinating disease of central nervous system | multiple sclerosis |
| Temporal resolution neuroimaging techniques focus on time while spatial techniques focus on the location of activity in the brain | True |
| Problems in body function or alterations in body structure, such as paralysis and blindness | Function Barriers |
| Problems with involvement in any area of life, such as education and employments | Participation Barriers |
| Based on the belief that bumps on the skull corresponded to certain brain areas and only those areas that performed certain mental functions | Phrenology |
| Hyperosmia | Abnormally Sensitive smell |
| Hyposmia | Decreased sense of smell |
| Diplopia | Double Vision |
| Fasciculation | Muscle Twitches |
| Vertigo | Dizziness |
| Hypokinesia | Decreased Movement |
| Akinesia | Absent Movement |
| Dystonia | Distorted body postures |
| Athetosis | Slow Twisting movements of the hands and feet |
| Chorea | Quick movements of the hands and feet with dance like quality |
| Ballism | Quick flinging of th elimbs |
| Myoclonus | Suddent involuntary jerking movements |
| Gait Disorders | Problems with walking |
| Anesthesia | Loss of feeling; numbness |
| Computed Tomography | a neuroimaging technique that passes x-rays through the human body that reflect off different densities of tissue,bone, and fluid in different ways that produce and image |
| structural Imaging | Shows brains anatomy |
| functional imaging | shows brains activity |
| Magnetic Resonance Imagine | a neuroimagine technique that uses a magnetic current to flip protons within body's water molecules. The image is then formed into a 3D image |
| Spatial Resolution | identifies the location of brain activity |
| temporal resolution | time between a stimulus being introduced and the brains response |
| Positron Emission Tomography | PET... Spatial resolution shows brain activity based on the brain's glucose metabolism |
| Temporal Resolution Best To Worst | EEG fMRI PET |
| Electroencephalography | EEG temporal resolution technique that measures the neuronal electrical activity through electrodes placed on the scalp. .. Low cost.. availability |
| Functional magnetic resonance imaging | a neuroimaging technique that combines advantages of both MRI and PET shows both anatomy and physiology by measuring blood oxygenation |
| Central nervous system | made up of the brain and spinal cord |
| Peripheral nervous system | cranial and spinal nerves |
| Brain is made up of four parts | Brainstem, cerebellum , diencephalon, cerebral hemispheres |
| Brain Stem consists of | Medulla, Pons, Midbrain |
| Cerebellum | Posterior to the pons... involved in the coordination and precision of fine motor movement. |
| What makes up the diencephalon | Thalamus, subthalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus |
| Thalamus | relay station for sensory fibers |
| Subthalamus | regulates and coordinates motor function |
| Hypothalamus | regulates various body functions |
| epithalamus | regulates genital development, the sleep/wake cycle and optic reflexes |
| Cerebral hemispheres | Control higher cortical functions such as cognition and language as well as planing motor function and interpreting sensory experiences |
| Visceral sensory system | entails general sensory information like stretch, pain, temperature, and irritation in the internal organs as well as sensations like nausea and hunger. |
| Autonomic nervous system | involves body functions that happen automatically without conscious control |
| Sympathetic nervous system | triggers what is known as our flight or flight response |
| Parasympathetic nervous system | complements the sympathetic nervous system by doing the opposite or rest and digest calms and relaxes the body. |
| Enteric nervous system | mangages gastrointestinal system functions independently of the brain. |
| Somatic nervous system | voluntary conscious system that coordinates the body skeletal muscles for movement. |
| Bends and wraps around itself to form a tube from which the brain and spinal cord will develop | Neural Tube |
| The process of forming the neural tube | Neurulation |
| Ventral Induction | Neurodevelopment period when the face and brain develop out of the superior end of the neural tube. |
| Prosencephalon | Forebrain |
| Telencephalon | Cerebral hemispheres |
| Mesencephalon | Midbrain |
| Rhombencephalon includes | pons, medulla, cerebellum referred to the hindbrain |
| Myelencephalon | Medulla |
| Metencephalon | Pons and cerebellum |
| Process involving the birth of new neurons | Neurogenesis |
| Formation of synapses between neurons during the cortical organization | Synaptogenesis |