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Which cranial nerve is associated with hearing and balance?

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CN VIII, vestibulocochlear

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Facia numbness or paralysis is indicative of damage to this nerve

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CN VI, facial

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These two cranial nerves have only afferent fibers

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CN I, olfactory
CN II, optic

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Name three cranial nerves associated with eye movements

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CN III, oculomotor
CN IV, trochlear
CN VI, abducens

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Name three sensory nerves

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CN I, olfactory
CN II, optic
CN VIII, vestibulocochlear

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Which loop is the most studied loop in the basal ganglia?

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Movement

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Basal ganglia regulates _________actiity initiated by cortex

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Motor

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This structure is made up of the caudate nucleus and putamen

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striatum

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This pathway disinhibits the thalamus

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direct pathway

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damage to the basal ganglia is associated with a _______________ tremor

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resting

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12
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Which gyrus is functionally motor cortex?

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pre-central

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Damage to this kind of neuron will lead to bilateral effects

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upper motor neurons

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This tract innervates the cranial nerves

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corticobulbar tract

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This tract innervates the lower motor neurons inferior to the medulla

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corticospinal tract

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16
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This tract seems to be more influential in non-humans

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rubrospinal tract

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17
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What are the sensory cells for vision?

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rods and cones

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18
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Name the six muscles that move the eye

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Medial and Lateral recti
Superior and Inferior recti
Superior and Inferior obliques

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The right ______________ field goes to the left hemisphere

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visual

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20
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Another name for the “what” pathway

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Ventral visual stream

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21
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What structures encode linear acceleration?

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Utricle and Saccule

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What structures encode rotational acceleration?

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Semicircular canals

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Extra-ocular muscles are inhibited on one side and excited on the other during the _________________.

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Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex

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What is the midline of the cerebellum?

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Vermis

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Damage to the cerebellum will be characterized by ________________ tremors.
Movement
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Which lobe contains the primary auditory cortex?
Temporal
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What is the process of a nerve firing?
Action Potential
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What is the white matter tract that connects within a hemisphere?
Fasiculus
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Which hemisphere is dominant in temporal processing?
Left
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Which auditory nucleus has laminar tonotopicity?
Inferior Colliculus
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Which cranial nerve controls muscles under the tongue?
CN XII, Hypoglossal
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Damage to this nerve can lead to people being unable to cry
CN VII, Facial
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This nerve is used in swallowing
CN X, Vagus
34
Anosmia is a symptom of damage to this cranial nerve
CN I, Olfactory
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The stapedial muscle is innervated by this cranial nerve
CN VII, Facial
36
What type of imaging tests are excellent for temporal precision?
EEG and MEG
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What imaging test is based on blood oxygen levels and uses magnets?
fMRI
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Which imaging test uses light to measure blood oxygenation?
fNIRS
39
Which scans images of white matter tracts, with no gray matter?
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
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Oscillations and ERPs are ways of analyzing ____________________.
EEG
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What is a functional region associated with expressive language in inferior frontal gyrus (IFG)?
Broca's area
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What is a functional region associated with receptive language in pSTG
Wernicke's area
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Primary Progressive Aphasia is a type of ______________
Dementia
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This part of the temporal lobe is involved with emotional processing
Temporal Pole
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This structure is implicated if a patient experiences functional fluency and comprehension, but poor repetition
Arcuate Fasiculus
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What receptor type are muscle spindles and golgi tendon organs?
Proprioceptors
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What type of thermoreceptor responds to temperature between 10-35 degrees Celsius?
Cold Receptors
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Which of the mechano-receptors are rapidly adapting, and which are slowly adapting?
Rapidly Adapting: Meissner Corpuscles and Pacinian Corpuscles Slowly Adapting: Ruffini Corpuscles and Merkel's Discs
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Meissner Corpuscles
Heavy pressure
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Pacinian Corpuscles
Vibration
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Ruffini Corpuscles
Skin streching
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Merkel's Discs
Light touch
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Which pathway sends pain signals to cortex?
Anterolateral and Spinothalamic
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Which fibers have the most myelination?
Aa
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What is the function A alpha fibers?
Proprioception Tactile
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What is the function of A beta fibers?
Tactile
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What is the function of A delta fibers?
Thermal Nociception
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What is the function of C fibers?
Thermal Nociception
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What are the three language models we discussed in class?
1. Wernicke-Geschwind, classi 2. Memory, Unification, Control (MUC) 3. Dual Path
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In the Wernicke-Geschwind language model, what is the first non-visual area involved with reading?
angular gyrus
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In the MUC model, which areas were included to allow for memory?
Temporal and Parietal
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In the Dual-Path model of Language Processing, which pathway provides sensorimotor integation?
Dorsal
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In the Dual-Path Model, where do the dorsal and ventral paths meet?
Broca's area
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How many layers does the cortex have?
Six
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What are the bundle of fibers that connect the left and right lateral lemnisci?
Commissure of Probst
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How many ventricles are in the brain?
Four
65
What are the three segments that make up the brainstem?
Midbrain Pons Medulla Oblongata
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What are the three lobes that make up the cerebellum?
Anterior Lobe Posterior Lobe Flocculonodular Lobe
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Which area processes the comprehension of motion classifier constructions?
Superior Parietal Lobule

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