Nervous System

Question 0

Parietal lobe

Answer 0

Math and logic

Question 1

Frontal lobe

Answer 1

Emotions and personality

Question 2

Temporal

Answer 2

Processing. Spoken word

Question 3

Occipital lobe

Answer 3

Processing visual information

Question 4

Meningitis

Answer 4

Inflammation of the meninges, membranes covering brain and spinal cord.
Symptoms: nuchal rigidity, fever, headache, vomiting.

Question 5

Hemiplegia

Answer 5

Result of stroke

Symptoms: paralysis on one side of body

Question 6

Paraplegia

Answer 6

Result of severing of spinal cord In lower back or sacrum.

Symptoms: inability to move arms and legs, may have bowel and bladder dysfunction.

Question 7

Qudriplegia

Answer 7

Result of severing of spinal cord in the upper thoracic or cervical area

Symptoms: inability to move arms and legs, may have respiratory dysfunction

Question 8

Encephalitis

Answer 8

Inflammation of the brain

Symptoms: headache, fever and confusion

Question 9

Cerebral vascular accident (stroke)

Answer 9

Blockage of a vessel or bleeding into brain prevents oxygen getting to brain tissue
Symptoms: malfunction in the portion of the brain that deprived of circulation

Question 10

Herniated disc

Answer 10

Protrusion of nucleus pulposis against spinal cord

Symptoms pain that radiates down leg

Question 11

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Answer 11

Determination of motor neuron

Question 12

Poliomyelitis

Answer 12

Vital infection that leads to weakened muscles

Question 13

Transient ischemic attack

Answer 13

Brief interludes of confusion that often precede CVA

Question 14

Hydrocephalus

Answer 14

Enlargement of head due to accumulated fluid in ventricles of brain

Question 15

Expressive aphasia

Answer 15

Inability to form words

Question 16

Receptive aphasia

Answer 16

Inability to understand what is being said

Question 17

Epilepsy

Answer 17

Abnormal electrical activity of brain

Question 18

Cerebral hematoma

Answer 18

Accumulation if blood due to tear in meningeal layer

Question 19

Concussion

Answer 19

Headache, vomiting, damage to brain tissue due to closed head trauma

Question 20

Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 20

Terminal illness thought to be due to plaque and tangles of brain tissue leading to regression if ability to think

Question 21

Parkinson’s disease

Answer 21

Progress dice neurological disease with resulting tremors, shuffling gait and rigidity

Question 22

Multi-infarct dementia

Answer 22

Brain damage from chronic ischemia

Question 23

Encephalitis

Answer 23

Inflammation of brain caused by virus, bacteria or toxin

Question 24

Bella palsy

Answer 24

Temporary facial paralysis caused by virus damaging the VII cranial nerve (facial)

Question 25

Trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 25

Severe spasm of V cranial nerve (trigeminial)

Question 26

Olfactory

Answer 26

Cranial nerve I

Carries impulses if smell

Question 27

Optic

Answer 27

Cranial nerve II

Carries impulses for sight

Question 28

Oculomotor

Answer 28

Cranial nerve III

Controls eye movement

Question 29

Trochlear

Answer 29

Cranial nerve IV

Controls eye movement

Question 30

Trigeminal

Answer 30

Cranial nerve V

Carries sensation from eye, upper and lower jaw; movement of jaw

Question 31

Abducens

Answer 31

Cranial nerve VI

Controls facial expression, controls salivary tear glands and carries taste

Question 32

Facial

Answer 32

Cranial nerve VII

Carries taste and controls facial expression

Question 33

Vestibule cochlear

Answer 33

Cranial nerve VIII caries hearing and controls equilibrium

Question 34

Glossopharyngeal

Answer 34

Cranial nerve IX

Carries taste, controls swallowing and gag

Question 35

Vagus

Answer 35

Cranial nerve X

Controls voice box, throat and digestive juices longest nerve goes to abdominal cavity

Question 36

Spinal accessory

Answer 36

Cranial nerve XI

Controls muscle in neck and larynx

Question 37

Hypoglossal

Answer 37

Cranial nerve XII

Controls muscles of tongue