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FINALS NEURO Flashcards

1
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● General behavior
● Stream of talk
● Mood
● Content of thought
● Intellectual capacity
● Sensorium

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MENTAL STATUS

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Visual acuity, visual confrontation test,
fundoscopy

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Optic Nerve

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pupils, palpebral fissures, extraocular muscles

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Oculomotor nerve
trochlear nerve
abducens nerve

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corneal reflex, facial sensation, muscles of mastication

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Trigeminal nerve

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Gross hearing, Weber’s and Rinne’s tests

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Auditory nerve

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phonation, swallowing/coughing

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Glossopharyngeal nerve

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gag reflex, palatal elevation

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Vagus nerve

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sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles

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Spinal accessory nerve

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Tongue protrusion, articulation

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Hypoglossal

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○ Posture/Gait
○ Somatotype, body symmetry
○ General activity
○ Tremors and other involuntary movements
○ Fasciculation

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MOTOR SYSTEM

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Muscle bulk, tone, tenderness

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Palpation

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○ Neck flexors, extensors
○ Shoulder flexors, extensors, abductors,
adductors
○ Elbow flexors, extensors
○ Wrist flexors, extensors
○ Finger flexors, extensors
○ Abdominal crunches
○ Hip flexors, extensor
○ Knee flexors, extensors
○ Ankle dorsiflexors, plantar flexors

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Manual Muscle Strength Testing

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Brain and spinal cord

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CNS

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A highly integrated and complex system divided into two parts:
the central nervous system (CNS)
Peripheral nervous system (PNS).

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Neurologic system

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Cranial nerves and spinal nerves

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PNS

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15
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assessment gives the nurse a
detailed data regarding the patient’s health status
and self-care practices.

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NEUROLOGIC ASSESSMENT

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● Deep tendon reflex
● Physiologic reflex (as needed)
● Pathologic reflex
● Special reflexes (as needed)

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REFLEXES

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● Apraxias
● Agnosias
● Aphasias

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HIGHER CORTICAL FUNCTION TESTS

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Touch, pain, vibration, and position sense including
Romberg’s test

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SENSORY

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Maintains our motor equilibrium and calibration
of movements. It is an essential region of the
brain playing a central role in maintaining our
gait, stance, and balance, as well as the
coordination of goal-directed movements and
complex movements.

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CEREBELLAR

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19
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Protect the brain and spinal cord.

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MENINGEALS

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The awareness of the person, self-awareness, as
well as awareness of his surroundings.

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LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

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o Mediated anatomically by ascending
reticular activating system (ARAS),
diencephalon, and the thalamus.

o is patient being aroused by a specific
stimuli

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AROUSAL (Wakefulness)

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21
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o Anatomically in the cerebral hemisphere

o more concern on the function of the
cerebral hemispheres or the function of
lobes

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AWARENESS (Content)

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22
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  • A state of normality
  • while you are listening, means you are alert;
    Described qualitatively
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Alert

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23
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Open eyes, answer questions and fall back
asleep.

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Lethargic (Somnolent)

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  • Opens eyes to loud voices, responds slowly to
    confusion, seems unaware of the environment.
  • State between wakefulness and stupor; blunted
    and sleep-like, can be aroused by less vigorous
    stimulation. then for stuporous patients.
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Obtunded

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25
Q

Condition in which the patient is in a sleep-like
state but you are able to arouse the patient
using vigorous stimulation, the patient is still
able to make purposeful responses.

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Stupor

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26
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  • Patient may not be aroused by vigorous
    stimulation
    -
    Sleep-wake cycle is abolished
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Comatose

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27
Q

For clients who are at risk for rapid deterioration of
the nervous system.

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GLASGOW COMA SCALE

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GLASGOW COMA SCALE:

Highest grade u can give here is ____

Lowest score that you can give is ___

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15

3

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GLASGOW COMA SCALEL
Eye Opening -

Motor Response -

Verbal Response -

GCS =

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4 points

6 points

5 points

3 - Deep coma

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29
Q

Reaction or posture of the patient when
pain/pressure is applied

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ABNORMAL CEREBRAL RESPONSE WITH INC ICP

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30
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● Lesions in the corticospinal tract

  1. Hands are flexed
  2. Elbows are flexed
  3. Shoulders are adducted
  4. Knees are internally rotated
  5. Feet are plantar flexed
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DECORTICATE POSTURING

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31
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● Lesions in the diencephalon, midbrain, or pons

  1. Adducted shoulders
  2. Elbows are extended
  3. Hands are internally rotated
  4. Palms are pronated
  5. Feet are plantar flexed
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DECEREBRATE POSTURING

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32
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● Acting normally on his age, sex, or occupation?
● Dressed neatly, slovenly or appropriately for age
● and occasion?
● Immobile, catatonic, hyperactive, agitated, quiet?
● Mostly done through observations

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OBSERVE FOR THE GENERAL BEHAVIOR

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33
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● Flow of speech
● Excessively talkative, frantic, anxiously speaking,
halting, forced, scarce, dysphonic, dysarthric,
aphasic, explosive, scanning?

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OBSERVE STREAM OF TALK AND SPEECH

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34
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● Not directly asked, but observed.
● Observe facial expression and display of his
emotions.

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OBSERVE FOR THE MOOD

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35
Q

Patient can shift mood from one
emotion to another

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LABILITY

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36
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(Real external stimuli) Misinterpretation of
a real external stimulus (Like when there’s a rope in
the floor and the patient sees that as a snake)

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Illusions

37
Q

● Do you reach conversational goals when you ask
questions?
● Side-tracked or go off tangent spontaneously or
abruptly? (flight of ideas)

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CONTENT OF THOUGHT

38
Q

(No external stimuli) False sensory
perception, you do not have an external stimuli but
they are perceiving something (The patient is
looking at a thin air and the patient is seeing a
ghost)

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Hallucinations

39
Q

(A fixed false belief) You believe
someone is following him or her.

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Delusions

40
Q

General evaluation of patient’s intellectual capacity
from simple observation.

Note the educational level

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INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY

41
Q

● A function of alertness and focus

● Test: ask the patient to spell the word “world” or
“cat”. Then you may ask to spell the word
backwards. You may use the word “mundo” in
filipino

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ATTENTION SPAN

42
Q

● Three spheres (time, place, and person)
● “What is the complete date today?”
● “What day is today”

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ORIENTATION

43
Q

● Responsible Function with your hippocampus
● Test for Function of your declarative memory

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MEMORY

44
Q

Ask the patient to remember the
following words: “ball”, “flag”, “tree”, or “mangga”,
“mesa”, “pera”

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Immediate recall

45
Q

o When is your birthday/anniversary?
o Who is your grade 1 teacher
o What school did you go to in grade
school

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Remote memory

45
Q

Ask the patient to recall the 3
words you previously asked to remember

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Short-term recall

46
Q

“What did you have for breakfast
or lunch today”

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Recent memory

47
Q

● Involves the patient’s judgment in given critical
situation

● Refers to the patient’s recognition of his illness and
its implications

Main question: Can the patient recognize his or her
illness and its implications

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INSIGHT AND JUDGEMENT

48
Q

● Reflects the patient’s awareness of current events
or what is going on around him.

● “Who is the current president of the Philippines”

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FUND OF INFORMATION

49
Q

● Ask the client to close his/her eyes then SNIFF and
identify aromatic substances.

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CN I: OLFACTORY - SMELL

50
Q

o Inability to identify the correct scent
o Loss of smell because of trauma

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Anosmia

51
Q

● Visual Acuity
● Ask the client to read printed materials
● Visual field testing/visual confrontation test.
● Use a Snellen chart or Jaeger chart
● Check if there are any retinal pathologies

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CN II: OPTIC - SIGHT

52
Q

examining the eye; look for any papilledema (optic edema)

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FUNDOSCOPIC EXAMINATION

52
Q

your left eye is directly
inclined with your patient’s right eye. (if there are
cuts in a quadrant of your eyes)

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VISUAL FIELD TESTING

53
Q

pupillary light reflex

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AFFERENT ARM OF THE REFLEX

54
Q

● Assess the directions of gaze by asking the patient
to follow moving objects

● Pupillary light reflex and consensual light reflex

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CN III: OCULOMOTOR - EYE MOVEMENT

55
Q

Assess Directions of gaze by asking client to follow
moving object

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CN IV & VI: TROCHLEAR AND ABDUCENS - EYE
MOVEMENT

55
Q

CN V: TRIGEMINAL - SENSATION
THREE BRANCHES:

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○ V1- Ophthalmic branch (Sensory)
○ V2- Maxillary Branch (Sensory)
○ V3 - Mandibular Branch (Sensory and Motor)

56
Q

● Assess light touch and pain sensation across the
face
● Opening mouth against resistance and moving jaw
from side to side

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CN V: TRIGEMINAL - SENSATION

57
Q

Checking for symmetry, and furrows in the
nasolabial folds

Ask the client to identify a salty or sweet taste in
front of the tongue

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CN VII: FACIAL - EXPRESSION AND TASTE

58
Q

● Gross hearing

● Weber’s test - for lateralization of sound

● Rinne’s Test - Placing tip of the tuning fork in the
tuning fork

● Schwabach Test - Comparing the hearing of the
examiner and the hearing of the patient

● Vibratory sound laterized to good ear (sensorineural
loss)

● Air conduction longer than bone conduction
(sensorineural loss)

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CN VIII: ACOUSTIC - HEARING

59
Q

Observe the patient’s speech, articulation, tone
volume and quality of voice

Observe if there are any drooling of saliva

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CN IX, X, AND XII:

GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL

VAGUS

HYPOGLOSSAL

60
Q

Patient is able to perform sounds
which are produce by the movement of the tongue

A

Lingual Sounds

61
Q

sounds produce with the
contraction of the throat

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Glutaral sounds

62
Q

● Sternocleidomastoid (Moves head from left to right)
● Trapezius muscle (ask the patient to shrug)

A

CN XI: ACCESSORY - MUSCLE MOVEMENT

63
Q

Move the face to the opposite side (left side) -

Move the face to the right side -

Ask the patient to raise both shoulders and apply downward resistance -

A

STERNOCLEIDO (RIGHT)

STERNOCLEIDO (LEFT)

TEST FOR TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE (SHOULDER SHRUG)

64
Q

Structures that concerns with function of the motor
system

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○ Motor cortex
○ Thalamus
○ Cerebellum
○ Glacial Ganglia

65
Q

You will have faulty function if the motor system has a problem most of these concerns with the function of the corticospinal
tract

A

Test for cerebellum function

66
Q

○ Rubrospinal Tract
○ Vestibulospinal Tract
○ Reticulospinal Tract

A

Lower Motor Neurons

67
Q

Muscles are strongest when acting from their
shortest position and weakest when acting from
their longest position

A

LENGTH-STRENGTH PRINCIPLE

68
Q

Select movements that are neither too strong for
you to overcome nor too weak for you to judge
resistance

A

MATCHING PRINCIPLE

69
Q

The muscle groups that supports the standing
posture, allows a person to move, walk, and leap
against gravity constitutes the antigravity muscle
system and are immensely stronger than the
antagonist

A

ANTIGRAVITY MUSCLE PRINCIPLE

70
Q

● Have patient to cooperate

● “I’m trying to test how strong you are, Don’t let me
win”

Coordination with pt is needed to get the maximum
effort of the pt

A

ENGAGEMENT PRINCIPLE

71
Q

Using a wisp of cotton, lightly touch alternate areas
of the arms, chest, abdomen comparing left to right

A

SENSORY TESTS
TEST LIGHT TOUCH

71
Q
  1. No response/contraction areflexia
  2. Weak jerk/contraction hyporeflexia
  3. Fairly brisk jerk/contraction normoreflexia
  4. Excessively strong and brisk jerk
    hyperreflexia
  5. Strong jerks/contraction with rhythmic
    or flapping tremors clonus
A
  1. 0
  2. 1+
  3. 2+
  4. 3+
  5. 4+
72
Q

Using the blunt end of a pin, ask the patient to say
“sharp” or “dull”, depending on what he/she
perceives.

A

TEST FOR PAIN

73
Q

● Using a test tube with warm or cold water of a
tuning fork.

A

TEST FOR TEMPERATURE

74
Q

Ask the patient to stand with feet together EYES
CLOSE and you will be looking for any swaying or
instability with the patient’s posture. Be ready to
catch your patient if he or she falls.

A

ROMBERG TEST

74
Q

Support the hand or foot. With the other hand grasp
the patient’s digit (fourth digit) by its side and wiggle
it up and down.

A

TEST FOR DIGITAL POSITION SENSE

74
Q

● Using a tuning fork
● Apply the free end of the shaft to the fingernails and
toenails. Do this initially with the patient eyes open
as demonstration.

A

VIBRATORY SENSE

75
Q

Connection of vestibular system and cochleo
modulo lobe of the cerebellum; if you have this
function this will result you as a nystagmus

A

VESTIBULOCEREBELLUM

76
Q

Consist of connections in cutaneous and
proprioceptive information from the spinal cord to
the vermis and paravermis region of the cerebellum

A

SPINOCEREBELLUM

77
Q

Connection between cerebral cortex and cerebral
hemisphere back to the cerebral cortex

A

CEREBROCEREBELLUM

78
Q

Ask the patient to follow your finger directly towards
the lateral to the patient’s eye

A

NYSTAGMUS

79
Q

Ask the patient to raise his/her arms and keep the
arms in a firm position.

A

REBOUND PHENOMENON

80
Q

For truncal balance

Ask the patient to walk along a straight line with
steps very close to one another.

A

TANDEM GAIT

81
Q

● Testing for signs of meningitis or inflammation
● Ability to move neck

A

PASSIVE MENINGEAL TESTING

82
Q

● Focused more on the neck and legs

● Ask to lie down flex the hip or the knee joint around
90° angle with your one hand and lift the angle so
that the knee can be extended.

A

KERNIG’S MANEUVER

82
Q

● Flexing the neck

● Ask the pt to lie down place your hand at the back
of the head and flex the neck forward

A

BRUDZINSKI’S MANEUVER

83
Q

Close eye, then identify the number or letter you will
write with the back of the pen on their palm

A

GRAPHESTHESIA

83
Q

Refers to the inability to recognize the form and
import of objects by touch.

A

ASTEREOGNOSIA

84
Q

Ask the patient to close eyes and identify the object
you place in their hand, place a coin or pen in their
hand, repeat this with the other hand using different
objects.

A

STEREOGNOSIS

85
Q

Is the inability to execute a previously learned skilled
movement which is not due to sensory of motor
dysfunction

A

APRAXIA

86
Q

Loss of ability to use language or words due to
cerebral pathology.

A

APHASIA

87
Q

Viewed as a deficit of self-awareness

A

ANOSOGNOSIA

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