Neuro 1 Flashcards
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What are the components of the anatomical position?
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SHAFT (Standing erect, head facing forward, arms at the side with palm facing forward, feet slightly apart, toes facing forward)
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State the layers of the scalp (from superficial to deep)
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SCALP (Skin, connective tissues, aponeurosis, loose areolar, pericranium)
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What are the 8 cranial bones? (PT FOES)
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PT FOES (parietal, temporal); (frontal, occipital, ethmoid, sphenoid)
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What are the paired cranial bones?
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parietal and temporal
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What are the unpaired cranial bones?
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frontal, occipital, ethmoid, and sphenoid
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How many cranial bones are there?
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There are 8 cranial bones
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What are the sutures?
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This separates one part of the cranial bone from another
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This separated two parietal bones.
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Saggital suture
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This separates the frontal from parietal bone.
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Coronal suture
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This separates parietal bones to occipal bone.
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Lamboidal suture
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This separates the parietal and temporal bone.
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Squamosal suture
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What are the facial bones?
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Vomer, Maxilla, Mandible, Nasal bone, inferior nasal conchae, zygomatic bone, lacrimal bones, palatine
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State the paired and unpaired facial bones.
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Paired: Maxilla, nasal bone, inferior nasal conchae, zygomatic bone, lacrimal bone, palatine bones
Unpaired: Mandible, vomer
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This is the moveable and strongest part of the facial bone.
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Mandible
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How many facial bones are there?
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14
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How many cranial nerves are there?
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12 pairs
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What do you call the nerves attached to the spinal cord?
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spinal nerves
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How many spinal nerves are there?
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31 pairs
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How many nerves are there that are associated to the PNS?
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86
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What is the function of the somatic nervous system?
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This is the fight or flight response
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What is the function of the autonomic nervous system?
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Rest and digest
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Known as the flight or fight response
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Somatic
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Known as the “rest and digest” nervous system.
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Autonomic
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What are the embryonic divisions?
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ProMeRho (Procencephalon, Mesencephalon, Rhombencelon)
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What are the subdivisions of the prosencephalon? How many are there?
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This embryonic division is your forebrain.
Procencephalon (forebrain)
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This embryonic division is your midbrain
Mesencephalon (midbrain)
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This is the most inferior part of the ebryonic division
Rhombencephalon (hindbrain)
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What are the subdivision/s of mesencephalon? How many are there?
Mesencephalon. 1
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What are the secondary division/s of the rhombencephalon? How many are there?
Metencephalon
Myelencephalon
There are 2
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What are the adult structures of telencephalon? How many are there. State what embryonic division is this.
BGCH (Basal ganglia, cerebrum, hipocampus)
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What are the adult structures of diencephalon? How many are there? State the embryonic division.
SHET PI (Subthalamus, Hypothalamus, Epithalmus, Thalamus, Pituitary gland, infindibulum
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What are the adult structures of mesencephalon?
TT CC (tectum, tegmentum, crus cerebri)
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What are the subdivisions of the metencephalon?
pons, cerebellum
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What are the subdivisions of the myelencephalon?
medulla oblongata, spinal cord
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What is the largest part of the brain?
cerebrum
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What are the two parts of the cerebrum?
left and right hemisphere
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What does the left hemisphere control?
logic, language, numbers,
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When this hemisphere is damaged, the person may have dyscalculia/acalculia or may have aphasia. What hemisphere is this?
left hemisphere
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Difference of ideomotor and ideational apraxia
ideomotor (can do automatic tasks howere is unable to do command tasks), ideational (cannot do command and automatic tasks)
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The patient has difficulty with dressing and undressing. What hemisphere is affected?
right hemisphere
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The patient has difficulty with automatic and command tasks. What hemisphere is damaged and state the kind of apraxia.
Ideational apraxia. Left hemisphere
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What are the two types of cells in the nervous system?
Neurons and Neuroglia
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This type of cell in the nervous system hold neurons together. Enhancement. Some common types of this cells include astrocytes, oligodendrocytes (which form the myelin sheath in the central nervous system)
Neuroglia
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This carries electrical impulses (called action potentials) away from the neuron's cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands.
Axon
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This receive signals (electrical or chemical) from other neurons or sensory receptors and transmit them toward the neuron's cell body (soma). They act like antennae, gathering information from the surrounding environment or neighboring cells.
Dendrites
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This is the foundation of the nervous system or the supporting framework, and the most numerous in the CNS
Astrocytes
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The myelin sheath of CNS
oligodendrocytes
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These cells are involved in immune system and macrophage of nervous system
Microglia
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The supporting framework of PNS for more effective conduction
Satellite cells
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The myelin sheath of PNS
Schwann cells
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What is the function of basal ganglia?
Modulation, initiaion, smoothens motor, performance, tone (MIST)
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What are the four lobes?
Frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital
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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?
Motor, language, procedural memory, analytical thinking, behavior, emotions, cognition, judgement, intelligence, personality
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What is the parietal lobe responsible for?
Sensation and perception
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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?
Hearing, smelling, and memory (HSM - High School Musical)
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What is the occipital lobe responsible for?
Vision
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What is the responsibility of insular lobe
Pain, emotion, decision making
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Lesion in the hippocampus will lead to
Amnesia
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Limbic lobe consists of
Parahippocampus - encodes memory (STM)
Uncus - Associated with CN 1
Cingulate gyrus - Associated with pain
Hippocampus - Storage of memory (LTM)
Amygdala - Sex motivation
PUCHA
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What is the function of the uncus?
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What is the name and function of the BA4? What happens if there is a lesion?
Primary motor; this executes the movement. Lesion in this area may lead to flaccidity
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What is the name of BA6? What happens if there is a lesion in BA6?
Premotor cortex; problems with movements, such as modifications of movement. Lesion in this area may lead to spasticity
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What is BA8? What happens if there lesion there?
Frontal eyefield. Problems in this area may lead to frontal gaze palsy
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What is BA9-12? What happens if there is lesion in that area?
Prefrontal. There will be behavioral changes.
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What is BA44? What happens if there is lesion in that area?
Broca's area. Broca's aphasia
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What are the Brodmann Areas that are under the frontal lobe area?
BA 4 & 6, BA 8, BA 9-12, BA 44
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What are the Brodmann areas in the parietal lobe?
BA 3, 2, & 1, BA 5 & 7, BA 39, BA 40, BA 43
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What is BA 3, 1, 2? What happens if there is lesion in that area?
primary somatosensory area; difficulties with sensation–it will lead to hemianesthesia
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What is BA 5, 7? What happens if there is lesion in that area?
secondary somatosensory area; there will be inability to know the real sensory stimuli–tactile agnosia
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What is BA39? What happens if there is a lesion in that area?
Angular gyrus; Gertsmann Syndrome
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What is BA40? What happens if there is a lesion in that area?
Supramarginal gyrus. It may lead to ideomotor apraxia, somatoagnosia (soma meaning body, may problem with identifying body parts)
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What is BA43? What happens if there is a lesion in that area?
Gustatory area. If there is lesion it will lead to aguesia (loss of taste)
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What are the BA's area in the temporal lobe?
Wernicke's (22), primary auditory and secondary auditory brodmann areas (41 & 42)
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What is BA 41? What happens if there is lesion in this area?
Primary auditory, deafness
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What is BA 42? What happens if there is lesion in this area?
secondary auditory, difficulty with processing the hearing also known as secondary dysprosody
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What is BA 22? What happens if there is lesion in this area?
Wernicke's, Wernicke's aphasia
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What are the Brodmann area's of the occipital lobe?
BA 17, 18, 19
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What brodmann area is the primary visual? What happens if there is lesion in that area?
BA 17. Blindness
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What is brodmann area 18 and 19? What happens if there is lesion in this area?
Visual association; it will lead to visual hallucination, visual agnosia if both hemisphere
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What are the commissural fiber?
This connects corresponding regions of two hemispheres
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This structure of the brain is considered as the greatest commissure.
Corpus callosum
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This connects various cortical regions within the same hemisphere.
Association fiber
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This structure is the greatest association fiber.
Arcuate fasciculus
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This connects the cerebral hemisphere with interior structures–distant connection
Projection fibers
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______ are considered as projection fibers.
Tracts
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What are the anatomical structures of the basal ganglia?
CPG (caudate nucleus, globus pallidus, putamen)
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This composes of the CPG (caudate nucleus, globus pallidus, putamen)
Corpus striatum
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What is under neostriatum?
Caudate nucleus, putamen
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What is under lentiform?
Putamen, Globus pallidus
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This is the other name of globus pallidus
Paleostriatum
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What are the excitatory neurotransmitters? (AGE)
Acetycholine, Glutamate, Epinepherine/norepinephrine
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What are the inhibitory neurotransmitters? State the areas of which they are most concentrated in.
GABA, dopamine, glycine
GABA is most concentrated on cerebral cortex
Glycine is most concentrated on spinal cord
Dopamine is most concentrated on corpus striatum
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This is the most abundant, or widely distributed excitatory neurotransmitter in the CNS
Glutamate
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What is the function of the subthalamus?
Motor control
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What is the function of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (hypothalamus)?
Circadian rhythm–sleep-wake cycle
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What is the function of preoptic medial nucleus?
sex drive and libido
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What is the function of anterior of posterior hypothalamus?
regulates the temperature; anterior - removes the heart, posterior - puts heat inside
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What is the function of lateral hypothalamus?
"l" for laklak, also the hunger and thirst center
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What is the function of medial hypothalamus?
"musog" for satiety
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What are the two components of the epithalamus?
Pineal gland and habenular nuclei
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What is the function of the pineal gland (epithalamus)?
Secretes melatonin–induces sleep
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What is the function of the habenular nuclei (epithalamus)?
Responsible for sensation such as olfaction (smell)
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What is the function of the thalamus?
Responsible for the sensory relay center except for olfaction
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This structure is also known as the little brain, located at the posterior aspect of the skull.
cerebellum
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What is the difference between cerebrum and cerebellum?
The cerebrum controls the contralateral side of the body while the cerebellum controls the ipsilateral (same side)
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What are the main functions of cerebellum?
coordination, balance, and muscle tone
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What is the function of the brainstem?
Bridge all tracts and is considered as the reflex center. Cranial nerves III-XII are found here.
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What cranial nerves are found in the midbrain?
CN III, IV
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What cranial nerves are found in the pons?
CN V, VI, VII, VIII
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What cranial nerves are found in the medulla oblongata?
CN IX-XII
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What cranial nerve is found in the telencephalon?
CN I - Olfactory nerve
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What cranial nerve is found in the diencephalon?
CN II
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What separates the medulla oblangata?
foramen magnum
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This is where the spinal cord tapers off (it is where the spinal cord is fading)
conus medullaris
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This is the prolongation of the pia mater; attached to the coccyx
filum terminale
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What is the Bell Magendie Law
Ventral & Dorsal
Ventral/Anterior - efferent (motor)
Dorsal - afferent (sensory)
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Px has ventral spinal cord lesion, what happens to the patient?
motor problems
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Px has dorsal spinal cord lesion, what happens to the patient?
sensory problems
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What are meninges?
These are the layers of the brain
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What are the three layers of the meninges?
DAP (Dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater)
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What is the outermost aka pachymeninx?
Dura mater
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It is the middle part of the meninges
arachnoid
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What is the inner most layer of the meninges?
pia mater
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What are leptomeninges?
pia mater + arachnoid
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What are ventricles?
cavities that contain the CBF
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What is the function of the cerebrospinal fluids (csf)? (PINCH)
Protection, Intracranial pressure regulation, Nutrition, Cushion, Homeostasis
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What is the choroid plexus?
Main producer of the CBF
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What is the biggest ventricle?
Lateral ventricles
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What is the interventricular foramen?
foramen monroe
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State the CSF Flow
Choroid plexus, lateral ventricles, intraventricular foramen (foramen monroe), third ventricle, cerebral aqueduact of sylivus, 4th ventticle, openings (foramen magendie, foramen luschka), central canal, subarachnoid space, arachnoid villi
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Main absorber of the CSF
Arachnoid villi
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What are the main arteries?
* Internal carotid artery (OAMPoC)
* Basilar artery (A Pon Las Po)
* Vertebral artery (Men PAMP)subarachnoid space (10) arachnoice villi
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What are the branches of ICA?
Opthalmic, Anterior Cerebral Artery (ACA), Medial Cerebral Artery, Posterior Communicating Artery (PCA)
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What happens if there is lesion in the ACA?
Problems with LE > UE
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What does the ACA supply?
Supplies corpus callosum and Basal Ganglia
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This is the largest branch or terminal branch of ICA, and supplies mostly the lateral portion of the cerebral cortex. This is also the most common stroke.
MCA (Middle Cerebral Artery)
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When a person has MCA, which is the most affected?
CVA affectations: UE x Face > LE; aphasia, dysphagia
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This connects anterior and posterior circulation and junction between 2 ICA and terminal branches of basilar artery.
Posterior communication artery
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This is the 1st branch of the basilar artery. This supplies pons and cerebellum.
Anterior Inferior cerebellar artery (AICA)
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Supplies the pons and is found in basilar artery
Pontine Artery
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This supplies internal ear
Labrynthine artery
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Supplies the midbrain
Superior cerebellar artery (SCA)
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This is the terminal branch of the basilar artery. It supplies the thalamus and subthalamus. CVA affectation would be vision.
Posterior cerebral artery
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What are the branches of Vertebral artery?
Men PAMP (Meningeal artery, posterior spinal artery, anterior spinal artery, medullary artery, pica (posterior inferior cerebellar artery)
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This branch supplies the meninges
Meningal artery
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This supplies posterior 1/3 of spinal cord
Posterior spinal artery
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This supplies anterior 2/3 of spinal cord
Anterior spinal artery
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Supplies medulla oblongata
Medullary Artery
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Considered as the brainstem stroke
PICA (Posterior inferior cerebellar artery)
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This kind of stroke has greater affectations in the upper extremeties and face. Contralateral hemiplegia.
MCA (Middle Cerebral Artery)
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What are the symptoms of people with MCA?
Aphasia, dysphagia, contralateral hemiplegie (UE and face > LE) contralateral hemianesthesia UE x Face > LE, Frontal gaze palsy, contralateral hemianopsia, aphasia/aprosodia, apraxia,
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State what kind of stroke. Inability to stand and walk and has no to little reaction.
Anterior Cerebral Artery
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May exhibit primitive reflexes and may have disconnection apraxia. The person may also exhibit uninhibited neurogenic bladder.
Anterior Cerebral Artery
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Kind of stroke that has frontal gaze palsy. Apraxia and dysphagia.
MCA (Middle Cerebral Artery)
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Has gegenhalten and pseudobulbar affect
Posterior cerebral artery (PCA)
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Visual impairment and ballint's syndrome
Posterior cerebral artery (PCA)
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Hemisensory deficit or thalamic pain
Posterior cerebral artery (PCA)
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What is the Ballint's syndrome? What kind of stroke will the patient have?
PCA. Symptoms include the following:
* Optic apraxia
* Oculomotor apraxia
* Simultagnosia -> inability to know the general picture
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This is filled with cerebrospinal fluid. It only extends inferiorly as far as the second sacral vertebral and contains cerebral arteries, veins, and cranial nerves.
subarchnoid space
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How many cranial nerves are there?
12 pairs
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What cranial nerves are sensory?
CN I, CN II, CN VIII (3)
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What cranial nerves are motor?
CN 3, 4, 6, 11, 12
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What cranial nerves are mixed?
CN V, CN VII, CN IX, CN X
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Where is the exit point of CN I? State the name of this CN.
Olfactory Nerve. Cribriform Plate
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Where is the exit point of CN II? State the name of this CN.
Optic Nerve. Exit point: Optic Canal
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Where are the exit points of CN III, IV, CN V - V1 (Opthalmic division), CN VI?
CN III Oculomotor, CN IV Trochlear, CN V Trigeminal (V1 - Opthalmic Division), CN VI Abducens; Exit: Superior Orbital Fissure
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This CN has three branches. What CN is this? What is V1, V2, V3 of this CN?
CN V Trigeminal Nerve
V1 - Opthalmic
V2 - Maxillary
V3 - Mandibular
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Where is the exit point of V2 of Trigeminal Nerve?
Foramen rotundum
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Where is the exit point of V3 of Trigeminal Nerve?
Foramen ovale
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Where is the exit point of CN VII and VIII?
Internal Acoustic Meatus
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Where are the exit points of CN IX, CN X, CN XI?
Jugular Foramen
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Where is the exit point of CN XII?
Hypoglossal Canal
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State the cranial nerve/s that have the origin in the diencephalon?
CN II
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State the cranial nerve/s that have the origin in the telencephalon?
CN I
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State the cranial nerve/s that have the origin at midbrain?
CN III, CN IV
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State the cranial nerve/s that have the origin at pons?
CN V, VI, VII, VIII
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State the cranial nerve/s that have the origin at the medulla oblongata
CN IX - CN XII
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What is the general function of the CN I? Lesion in this area will lead to what?
Smell. Anosmia
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What is the function of CN II?
Sight
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What is the function of CN III?
Constrict pupils, accomodates, moves eyes
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What is the function of CN IV and VI?
Eye movement
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What is the function of CN V?
Chewing, sensation of the front of the face
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What is the function of CN VII?
Movement of facial features, taste, salivation, crying
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What is the function of CN VIII?
Hearing and balance
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What is the function of CN IX?
Taste, salivation, swallowing, monitors carotid body and sinus
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What is the function of CN X?
Taste, swallowing, lifts palate, supplies at the thorax and abdomen
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What is the function of CN XI?
Turns head and lifts shoulder
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What is the function of CN XII?
Tongue movement
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How many pairs does spinal nerves have?
31 pairs
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What are the plexuses?
cervical, brachial, lumbar, sacral, coccygeal
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State the lesion given the following:
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Hypertonia
UMNL
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Hypotonio
LMNL
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Flaccidity
LMNL
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Hyperreflexia or Increased deep tendon reflex
UMNL
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Atrophy (disused) - what you do not use, you will loose
UMNL
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Atrophy (denervated); severe muscle wasting
LMNL
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Pathologic reflexes
UMNL
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Spontaneous muscle activity: fasciculation, fibrillation, and muscle cramps
LMNL
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Hyporeflexia or decreased deep tendon reflex
LMNL
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Affected structures are corticospinal tract and corticobulbar tracts
UMNL
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Cranial nerve lesion and spinal nerve lesion
LMNL
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Contralateral lower quadrant palsy of face
UMNL
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Ipsilateral half palsy of face
LMNL
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Pseudobulbar palsy, pseudobulbar affect and emotional incontinence
UMNL
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Bulbar palsy
LMNL
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A 55-year-old male presents with progressive weakness, stiffness, and spasticity in his legs.
He has difficulty walking and complains of muscle cramps.
Where is the potential lesion? UMN or LMN?
UMNL
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A 25-year-old female experienced a sudden onset of facial droop, difficulty speaking, and weakness in her right arm.Symptoms have worsened over the past hour.
UMNL
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A newborn infant is noted to have difficulty feeding, weak cry, and decreased muscle tone. On examination, there is tongue fasciculation and absent reflexes.
LMNL
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It is the smalled functional element controlled by the motor control system
Motor unit
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It supplies the entire lateral surface of the cerebral hemisphere except for the narrow strip, occipital pole, and inferolateral surface of the hemisphere.
MCA (Middle cerebral artery)
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The space that is entered during a lumbar puncture to obtain cerebrospinal fluid sample is the:
Subarachnoid space
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The arcuate fasciculus connects regions in the temporal lobes with regions in the frontal lobes and is one type of fiber tract.
Association
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Brodmann area 44, or the _____ area, is an important area in spoken language.
Broca's
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A short tube joining the third ventricle to the fourth ventricle in the midbrain:
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State the correct cerebrospinal fluid flow from formation, circulation to absorption.
Choroid plexus, lateral ventricles, foramen monro, third ventricle, sylvian aquedact, fourth ventricle, openings, foramen of magendie, foramen of luschka, subarachnoid space, arachnoid villi, superior sagittal sinus
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This _____ is the basic unit of the nervous system
neuron
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What is the deepest brain covering?
Pia mater
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Main site of absorption of the CSF flow
arachnoid villi
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CBF is formed primarily by specialized tissue in the ventricles called
choroid plexus
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Executive functions such as reasoning, planning, and problem solving are associated with the operation of the _____ lobe
Left
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Carries impulses to the brain
afferent fibers
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In the cranial cavity, this structures act as the outermost covering for the brain, but also as the lining membrane on the inner surfaces of the bones. It also gives valuable support to the brain, the partitions preventing shifting thereby safeguarding the brain against injury.
Dura mater
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The CBF serves as the following functions
PINCH (Protection, Intracranial pressure regulation, Nutrition, Buoyancy for the brain serving as a mechanical cushion, Preserves homeostasis in the nervous system)
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Junction formed by the terminal branches of the basilar artery and the two internal carotid arteries:
Posterior communicating arteries
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Which of the following statements concern the subarachnoid space?
a. It is filled with cerebrospinal fluid
b. It extends inferiorly as far as the fourth sacral vertebra
c. The cerebral arteries and veins are not located in subarachnoid space
d. The cranial nerves lie outside the subarachnoid space in sheaths derived from the dura mater
a. It is filled with CBF
Explanation: The subarachnoid space is filled with cerebrospinal fluid. It only extends inferiorly as far as the second sacral vertebral and contains cerebral arteries, veins, and cranial nerves.
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Ataxic dysarthria is related to a lesion of ________
Cerebellum
The cerebellum serves a comparator function during motor control and helps coordinate all movements underlying an action. Focal lesions to the cerebellar cortex result in articulatory overshoot or undershoot, dyscoordination, and degraded.
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Gertsmann syndrome is characterized by agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia, and left-right disorientation. This occurs as a result of injury to which lobe of the brain?
Parietal
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Discrete muscle movements relating to
swallowing, chewing and facial movement are
elicited more readily from stimulation of which part
of the Primary motor area?
Lateral
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Cranial nerve responsible for salivation via parotid gland
CN IX Glossopharyngeal Nerve
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Cranial nerve affected supplies the stylopharyngeus
CN IX Glossopharyngeal Nerve
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Cranial nerve responsible for taste sensation of the posterior 1/3 of the tongue
CN IX Glossopharyngeal Nerve
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All of the following are characteristics of the accessory nerve except?
a.) Divided into cranial accessory and spinal accessory nerves
b.) in charge of movement of tongue
c.) elevates shoulders, rotates and flexes the neck
d.) only has motor function
b.) in charge of movement of the tongue
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Cranial nerve responsible for the sensation of the face
Trigeminal Nerve CN V
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The human peripheral nervous system is composed of _______.
I. 10 pairs of cranial nerves
II. 12 pairs of cranial nerves
III. 31 pairs of spinal nerves
IV. 33 pairs of spinal nerves
12 pairs of cranial nerves
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How many facial bones do we have?
14
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Cranial bones consist of how many bones?
8
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Only unpaired bones in the facial bones
Vomer
Mandible
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Which of the following is NOT a facial bone?
a.) Parietal
b.) Nasal
c.) Maxillae
d.) Zygomatic
e/) Palatine
A.) Parietal
It is a cranial bone
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Aponeurosis is more superficial than loose connective tissue? True or False
True
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The following are muscles of forced expiration except:
a.) Innermost intercostals
b.) Transversus thoracis
c.) Pectoralis major
d.) Transeversus abdominis
Pectoralis major is an accessory muscle of inspiration
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It is the volume of air exchanged in one respiratory cycle
Vital capacity
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The facial muscle constricts oral opening
Orbicularis oris
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The terminal branch of the internal carotid artery
Middle cerebral artery
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An important structure adjacent to the brainstem
that contains the hypothalamus (which controls
emotions) and the thalamus (which relays sensory
impulses to various portions of the cerebral cortex)
is called the
Diencephalon
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Cavities within the brain and are filled with CBF
Ventricles
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Occlusion of the main trunk of the MCA produces the following except:
a.) Aphasia if occlusion in the dominant hemisphere
b.) Decreased sensation in the same regions
c.) Paralysis of the opposite side of the body
d.) Paralysis of the same side of the body
d.) Paralysis of the same side of the body
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The corpus striatum is composed of three nuclear masses, which are the
Caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus
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The structure that regulates body posture, equilibrium, and coordinated fine motor movements is the
Cerebrum
