Brain

Question 1

Respiratory & cardiac centers are located in which part of the brain?

Answer 1

Medulla & pons

Question 2

Reflexes to light and sound are located in which part of the brain?

Answer 2

Midbrain

Question 3

What is the relay station of the brain?

Answer 3

Thalamus

Question 4

Integration of sensory information is done in which part of the thalamus?

Answer 4

Pulvinar region

Question 5

Sensory to face is in which part of thalamus?

Answer 5

VPM

Question 6

Sensory to arms & legs is in which part of thalamus?

Answer 6

VPL

Question 7

Sensory to eyes is in which part of thalamus?

Answer 7

Lateral Geniculate

Question 8

Sensory to ears is in which part of thalamus?

Answer 8

Medial Geniculate

Question 9

Superior temporal lobe is responsible for

Answer 9

Hearing

Question 10

Inferior temporal lobe is responsible for

Answer 10

Smell and long term memory

Question 11

Smell is in which are of the inferior temporal lobe?

Answer 11

Uncal area

Question 12

Wernicke’s area is responsible for ____ & is made up of which lobes of the brain?

Answer 12

Sensory matching, POT

Question 13

Wernicke’s area can be destroyed by

Answer 13

Vitamin B1/Thiamine deficiency

Question 14

Vitamin B1/Thiamine deficiency is due to ____ causing what syndrome?

Answer 14

Alcoholism, Wernicke-Korsakoff

Question 15

In Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome you develop which type of aphasia, in which you can’t understand language?

Answer 15

Sensory aphasia

Question 16

Frontal lobe receives blood supply from which artery?

Answer 16

Middle cerebral artery

Question 17

Caudate secretes

Answer 17

GABA

Question 18

Genetic defect in caudate leads to

Answer 18

Huntington’s chorea

Question 19

Striatum = ___ + ___

Answer 19

Putamen + Caudate

Question 20

Lentiform = ___ + ___

Answer 20

Putamen + Globus pallidus