Exam 1 SG

Question 1

Cerebral aqueduct is located within what what brain structure?

Answer 1

Midbrain

Question 2

Lack of sympathetic innervation can cause drooping eyelids, pupil constriction, red eye, decreased sweating on the ispilateral face. What disorder is associated with the following symptoms?

Answer 2

Horner’s Syndrome

Question 3

Tourette’s Syndrome is caused by damage to what structure?

Answer 3

Basal ganglia

Question 4

Segmental arteries originate from what artery?

Answer 4

Vertebral artery

Question 5

Stroke of the anterior cerebral artery on the left side can result in what symptoms?

Answer 5

Loss of motor and touch on leg and foot on right side

Loss of smell

Question 6

What cranial nuclei are in the pons?

Answer 6

Abducens (VI)

Facial (VII)

Vestibular (VIII)

Question 7

A patient with loss of motor and touch to the right side of the body is due to the damage of what artery?

Answer 7

Lenticulostriate artery on left side

Question 8

Aneurism to internal carotid artery in cavernous sinus could affect what cranial nerves?

Answer 8

3,4,5,6

Question 9

Auditory nerve is innervated by what neurons?

Answer 9

Hair cells

Question 10

What structure on brainstem is located between the cerebral peduncles?

Answer 10

Mammilary bodies

Question 11

What papillae on the tongue is NOT associated with taste receptors?

Answer 11

Filiform

Question 12

What sinus drain into the inferior petrosal sinus?

Answer 12

Cavernous sinus

Question 13

What nuclei are associated with motor function?

Answer 13

Trochlear

Substantia niagra

Red nucleus

Question 14

What nuclei are limbic structures?

Answer 14

Hippocampus

cingulate cortex

amygdala

Question 15

The cuneate nucleus is supplied by what artery?

Answer 15

Posterior spinal artery

Question 16

Some papillae within the tongue have serous glands ventral to the papillae. These glands are found near what papillae?

Answer 16

Foliate

Question 17

What vertebral artery directly supplies what cranial nerve nucleus?

Answer 17

Ambiguous

Question 18

What tract within the thoracic spinal cord has legs represented medially and the hips represented laterally?

Answer 18

Fasiculus gracilis

Question 19

What cranial nerve is responsible for taste sensation within the epiglottis?

Answer 19

Vagus X nerve

Question 20

A patients presents with complete vision loss of the right eye. What lesion could account for this visual loss?

Answer 20

Optic nerve on right side

Question 21

A patient presents with pain and temperature loss on the right side of the body andn loss of touch on the left side of the body. Where would the lesion be located?

Answer 21

Left spinal cord

Question 22

In a normal patient when would the babinsky reflex not be exhibited?

Answer 22

After 1 year of age