Exam 1 SG Flashcards
Cerebral aqueduct is located within what what brain structure?
Midbrain
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?
Horner’s Syndrome
Tourette’s Syndrome is caused by damage to what structure?
Basal ganglia
Segmental arteries originate from what artery?
Vertebral artery
Stroke of the anterior cerebral artery on the left side can result in what symptoms?
Loss of motor and touch on leg and foot on right side
Loss of smell
What cranial nuclei are in the pons?
Abducens (VI)
Facial (VII)
Vestibular (VIII)
A patient with loss of motor and touch to the right side of the body is due to the damage of what artery?
Lenticulostriate artery on left side
Aneurism to internal carotid artery in cavernous sinus could affect what cranial nerves?
3,4,5,6
Auditory nerve is innervated by what neurons?
Hair cells
What structure on brainstem is located between the cerebral peduncles?
Mammilary bodies
What papillae on the tongue is NOT associated with taste receptors?
Filiform
What sinus drain into the inferior petrosal sinus?
Cavernous sinus
What nuclei are associated with motor function?
Trochlear
Substantia niagra
Red nucleus
What nuclei are limbic structures?
Hippocampus
cingulate cortex
amygdala
The cuneate nucleus is supplied by what artery?
Posterior spinal artery
Some papillae within the tongue have serous glands ventral to the papillae. These glands are found near what papillae?
Foliate
What vertebral artery directly supplies what cranial nerve nucleus?
Ambiguous
What tract within the thoracic spinal cord has legs represented medially and the hips represented laterally?
Fasiculus gracilis
What cranial nerve is responsible for taste sensation within the epiglottis?
Vagus X nerve
A patients presents with complete vision loss of the right eye. What lesion could account for this visual loss?
Optic nerve on right side
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?
Left spinal cord
In a normal patient when would the babinsky reflex not be exhibited?
After 1 year of age
