ch 13 neurological diseases

Question 1

1. ____ is highly infected contagious viral disease that affects the anterior horn cells of the gray matter in the spinal cord.

Answer 1

Poliomyelitis

Question 2

2. Symptoms and signs of brain tumors include?

Answer 2

All of the above

Question 3

3. The nerves that transmit impulses toward the brain and spinal cord are?

Answer 3

Afferent

Question 4

4. With an epidermal hematoma, the onset of symptoms is delayed as a result of a slower accumulation of blood.

Answer 4

False accumulation of blood is rapid

Question 5

5. Possible causes of peripheral neuritis

Answer 5

Include chronic alcohol, and infectious disease

Question 6

6. Temporary episodes of impaired neurologic functioning caused by inadequate blood flow to a portion of the brain are termed

Answer 6

B and C TIA’s and mini strokes

Question 7

7. TIA and transient global amnesia (TGA) are the same thing?

Answer 7

False

Question 8

8. A collection or mass of blood that forms between the skull and Dura matter is termed as.

Answer 8

epidermal hematoma

Question 9

9. Paralysis of the lower half of the body as a result of the lower portion of the spinal cord is called?

Answer 9

Paraplegia

Question 10

10. Infectious organisms may reach brain from

Answer 10

All of the above the blood, penetrating trauma, and an infection an adjoining structures as the ear or sinuses

Question 11

11. All brain tumors originate in the brain tissues

Answer 11

False

Question 12

12. The patient with ____ experiencing excruciating pain that radiates along the 5th cranial nerve distribution, affecting any of the branches.

Answer 12

Tic Douloureux and trigeminal neuralgia

Question 13

13. Periodic sever headaches that may be completely incapacitating are called.

Answer 13

Migraines

Question 14

14. The amnesia of transient global amnesia is permanent

Answer 14

False

Question 15

15. A chronic brain disorder characterized by sudden episodes of abnormally intense electrical activity in the brain is called what?

Answer 15

Epilepsy

Question 16

16. The condition that involves progressive destruction of motor neurons resulting in muscle atrophy is called?

Answer 16

ALS

Question 17

17. Bruising of the brain tissues along or just beneath the surface accompanied by symptoms lasting more than 24 hours describes a.

Answer 17

contusion

Question 18

____ involves degeneration of the nerves outside the CNS and affects the distal muscles of the extremities.

Answer 18

Peripheral neuritis

Question 19

19. An acute rapidly progressive disease of the spinal nerves with progressive muscle weakness and paralysis in a 24- to 72- hour period may indicate of.

Answer 19

Guilian- Barres’s syndrome

Question 20

20. Nuchal ridged, headache, and photophobia are a symptom of what

Answer 20

Meningitis

Question 21

21. Narrowing of the intervertebral spaces on imaging studies may indicate degeneration of an intervertebral disk.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

22. __ is the result of the bones of the floor of the cranial vault being broken

Answer 22

Basilar fracture

Question 23

23. Nerves that transmit impulses away from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands.

Answer 23

Efferent

Question 24

24. Inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord is called.

Answer 24

Meningitis

Question 25

25. An inherited disorder in which individual displays abrupt, bizarre, involuntary, dance like movements and decline in mental functions.

Answer 25

Huntington’s chorea

Question 26

26. Parkinson’s disease s characterized by.

Answer 26

“Pill” rolling tremor thumb and forefinger, muscle regity, masklike facial expressions, ad shuffling gait.

Question 27

27. Spinal stenosis contributes to sciatic pain caused by narrowing of the spinal canal causes compression of spinal nerve roots.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

28. Of the following, which is not likely to cause a cerebrovascular accident (CVA).

Answer 28

Neuroblstoma