Flaccid Dysarthria Exam 1-Dr. Blaesing's Questions Flashcards
A patient presents with a “flutter: in the check area. What cranial nerve is implicated?
VIIth Facial Nerve
In assessing AMR’s, which sound/syllable will mostly likely be affected with VIIth nerve damage?
“puh”
With bilateral VIIth nerve lesions patients may have difficulty saying bilabials, what is the likely substitution?
Lingual alveolar sounds (using their tongue)
Which nerve innervates the stylopharyngeus muscles?
IXth Glossopharyngeal Nerve
What does the stylopharyngeus muscle do?
Raises pharynx in speech & swallowing
Patient complains of pain going down back of throat. Which cranial nerve is implicated?
IXth-Glossopharyngeal
Patient presents with hypernasality. Which cranial nerve is implicated?
Xth Vagus-Pharyngeal branch
Which intrinsic laryngeal muscle is the primary pitch changer?
Cricothyroid
Which nerve innervates the cricothyroid muscle?
Xth Vagus-Superior Laryngeal
Which will have a more significant effect – lesion on the recurrent laryngeal nerve or a lesion above the pharyngeal nerve?
Above the pharyngeal nerve
An axon that originates from a motor neuron on the part of the motor cortex that controls the jaw will descend through the corticobulbar tract to synapse with which cranial nerve?
Vth Trigeminal Nerve-Motor & Sensory Mandibular Branch
The patient presents with tongue atrophy & fasciculations. Upon tongue protrusion, the tongue deviates to the right. Your best estimation is that it is a _______ lesion and that the lesion is on which side?
LMN-lesion on the right
The patient presents with spasticity. Upon tongue protrusion, the tongue deviates to the right. Is the lesion UMN or LMN lesion? The lesion is on which side? Where is the side of weakness?
UMN-Left Side-Right side (where tongue deviates)
The jaw hangs open at rest with little strength to resist closing. Describe lesion.
Cranial Nerve V Trigeminal, Bilateral lesion. But can’t tell if UMN or LMN
The jaw deviates to the right side. With this information can you tell which is the side of weakness? Which is the side of lesion?
Yes, Right
You don’t really know where the lesion is.
There is a single UMN lesion on the right side that affects the Vth nerve. Will there be a significant effect on speech?
No, because UMN and this is a bilateral nerve. (if LMN, yes)
Are UMN’s part of the CNS?
Yes
Are LMN’s part of the PNS?
Yes
Are LMN’s part of the Final Common Pathway?
Yes
Do LMN’s originate in the cortex?
No
Do UMN’s (including both DAP and IAP) terminate at the synapses either in the brain stem or spinal cord?
Yes
Which subsystems can dysarthria effect?
All
At which anatomic level (supratentorial, etc.) do cranial nerves III-XII originate?
Posterior
Which cells form myelin in CNS?
All oligendroglia cells
Name the structures that make up the basal ganglia
a. Globus Paladus
Make up the Striata:
b. Caudate Nucleus
c. Putamen
Define UMN and their function
Cell bodies originating in the motor cortex.
Job=tells LMN what to do
Define LMN and their function
Cell bodies originating in the brain stem and spinal cord. Destination=muscle sending message to.
Function=to take the message from UMN and execute it.
The patient presents with tongue atrophy & fasiculations. Upon tongue protrusion, the tongue deviates to the right. Your best estimation is that it is a: (UMN or LMN) lesion and the lesion is on which side (Left or Right)?
LMN
Right
How is Dysarthria different than Apraxia?
Apraxia is motor programming and dysarthria is muscle weakness/muscle execution
What sub systems does apraxia effect?
Articulation and prosody
What makes up the motor unit?
Motor neuron and the muscle fiber it innervates
What does the Trigeminal nerve innervate?
a. Mainly tensor veli palatini
b. Mylohyoid for swallowing
What type of innervation is the Trigeminal nerve?
Bilateral
What happens with unilateral vs bilateral damage to the Trigeminal nerve?
Unilateral: deviates to weak side
Bilateral: hangs open at rest or weakness to close
There’s an UMN damage on the left side of the brain with the, which side will the tongue deviate to?
Right
If there’s a LMN lesion on the left side, which side will the tongue deviate to?
Left
Will it always deviate to the side of weakness?
Yes
Will it always deviate to the side of lesion?
No
Describe the innervation of the face
a. Upper face, bilateral
b. Lower jaw is unilateral innervation and contralateral
LMN’s are called what?
Nerves
UMN’s are called what?
Paths or tracts
Cranial nerves originate and end where?
Cranial nerves start in the brain stem (previously UMN’s with the direct/indirect pathways that synapse in brain stem) at the start of the cranial nerve to the synapse of the muscles they innervate
If lesion ON cranial nerve XII, then must be UMN or LMN?
LMN
What are the three branches of the Vagus-Xth nerve?
Pharyngeal Branch
Superior Laryngeal Branch
Recurrent Laryngeal Branch
The Hypoglossal nerve innervates all of the intrinsic and extrinsic tongue muscles except?
Palatoglossus
Spinal Nerves effect what sub system?
Respiration
What effects direct and indirect pathways? (What is the difference between the two?)
One makes stops along the way and one doesn’t. Indirect goes through basal ganglia
T/F Motor movement does not originate in the basal ganglia or cerebellar control circuits.
True (originates in the primary motor cortex but travels through there to coordinate movements)
T/F The Basal Ganglia is in direct contact with LMN.
False; They don’t directly influence the LMN, only the UMN