midterm 1 practice exam questions

Question 1

Which task might appear in the executive function of a Mental status exam?
a. recognizing objects
b. Lurias 3 step test (fist-edge-palm test)
c. Memory for famous historical events
d. naming body part

Answer 1

b.

Question 2

The limbic system is located within the
a. telencephalon
b. diencephalon
c. mesencephalon
d. metencephalon
e. myelencephalon

Answer 2

a.

Question 3

Starting at the thalamus of the human brain moving towards the dorsal part of the brain, one would encounter.
a. the hypothalamus and then the pons
b. the occipital lobe and then the meninges
c. the cerebellum and then the skull
d. the hippocampus and then the temporal lobe
e. the corpus callosum and then the cortex.

Answer 3

e.

Question 4

moving from the skull inwards towards the brain, the order of the 3 meninges is:

Answer 4

dura mater, arachnoid membrane, pia mater

Question 5

Astereognosia, the inability to recgonize objects by touch, would most likely be detected in which component of the neurological exam?
a. motor function
b. cranial nerves
c. somatosenory function
d. patient history
e. mental status

Answer 5

c.

Question 5

Which is a clinical feature not consistent with a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
a. misfolded tau proteins
b. atrophy of the hippocampus and the amygdala
c. accumulation of the p-tau in the sulci and small vessels
d. dysmetria
e. dementia and memory problems

Answer 5

d. dysmetria

Question 5

Define an aneurysm and list 2 aneurysm interventions

Answer 5

Anerysm: weakened vessel wall in the brain.
2 possible interventions are coiling and clipping.

Question 6

Name 3 roles of astrocytes

Answer 6

• Support endrotheial cells of the BBB
• provide nutrients to neurons
• maintain ion balance in CNS
• Repair after injury
• communicate with neurons and glia
• control and maintain synpases

Question 7

Define anosognosia and psychological denial. How do patients with these 2 conditions each respind to evidence of their impairment?

Answer 7

Anosognosia is an error to self-awareness - patients don’t recognize their own impairment. When confronted with evidence the in surprise or confabulation.

Denial is a refusal to acknowledge painful or stressful information. When confronted with evidence they resist, angry, refusal to disscuss.