Dude Prunuske- CNS Overview

Question 1

Forebrain

Answer 1

motor control, somatosensory processing, emotion, thoughts, planning, memory

Question 2

frontal lobe

Answer 2

motor control, executive

Question 3

Parietal Lobe

Answer 3

somatosensory processing

Question 4

Temporal Lobe

Answer 4

Auditory Processing, new memory formation

Question 5

Limbic system

Answer 5

emotional processing, learning, memory

Question 6

Basal Ganglia

Answer 6

coordinates choice of mutually exclusive skeletal muscle actions

connects to limbic system as well

Question 7

Thalamus

Answer 7

interpret sensory input to the cortex

Question 8

midbrain

Answer 8

vertical eye movement
pupil control
posture & locomotion
non-rapid eye movement
level of arousal

Question 9

pons

Answer 9

conjugate horizontal eye movement
posture
rapid eye movement
facial expression

Question 10

medulla

Answer 10

blood pressure
breathing
GI motility
ingestion
equilibrium

Question 11

Cerebellum

Answer 11

coordinate movements that use more than one joint.
coordination of visually guided movements.
damage leads to ataxia.

Question 12

Consciouness

Answer 12

Wakefulness and awareness

Question 13

Coma

Answer 13

unresponsive to internal and external stimuli
can have spinal reflexes
no visual or auditory perception
unarousable
no spontaneous eye opening

Question 14

unresponsive wakefulness

Answer 14

have sleep-wake cycles, opens eyes
unresponsive to internal and external stimuli (including pain)
not aware of self or others
may smile/grimace, reflexively grip hand
no thoughts, memories, emotions, or intentions

Question 15

Minimally Conscious State

Answer 15

some sleep-wake cycles
incomplete awareness
MCS + has high level of behavioral responses
MCS - has low level of behavioral responses

Question 16

Locked in syndrome

Answer 16

sleep-wake cycles
intact awareness
quadriplegia, sensory loss, anarthria
conscious but unable to interact with outside world
might be able to look up and down and blink