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Nervous System Flashcards

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High steps foot slaps down

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Tabetic

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Walking on toes at an accelerating pace

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Festinating

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Leg crossed while walking with short and slow steps

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Scissors

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Short, accelerating pace, posture forward leaning, head hips and knees flexed difficult to start and stop

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Parkinsonian

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Irregular non directive

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Dystonic

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Staggering and unsteady

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Ataxia

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High stepping

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Equine

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7
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Feet or foot makes half circle with each step

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Heliopod

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Foot and toes lifted high , heel comes down heavily

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Steppage

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9
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Legs far apart and weight shifting from side to side

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Dystrophic

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10
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Paralyzed on one side, paralyzed limb swings outward foot drags arm on affected side does not swing freely

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Hemiphlegic

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Stiff short steps; toes catch and drag legs held together and hips and knees flexed with muscular rigidity or spasm

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Spastic

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12
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The ability to perceive sensory stimuli

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Stereognosis

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13
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Inability to perceive stimuli

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Agnosia

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14
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Regulating mechanism for motor function

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Motor center cerebellum extrapyramidal system

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15
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Reduce body movement in the absence of weakness or paralysis. Habitual like swinging of arms are limited or absent

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Akinesia

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Gross worm like movements of the body face or extremities purposeless movements of the hands and feet due to brain lesion

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Athetosis

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17
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Prolonged twisting movements

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Dystonia

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18
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For of chorea involuntary dramatic movements of arms and legs

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Ballismus

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19
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Slow movement

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Bradykinesia

20
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Discrete jerky purposeless movement in the distal extremities and face irregular spasmodic movement beyond control

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Chorea

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Often psychotic origin and may be involuntary inhibited involves the same musculature each time in stereotyped movements of varying complexity.

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Tic

22
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Vary in direction amplitude rhythmicity parts involves speech and timing in relation to rest and activity

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Tremors

23
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Types of reflexes?

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  • Superficial /cutaneous reflexes
  • Deep tendon reflex
  • Reflexes to assess meningeal irritation
  • Occulocephalic reflex or dolls eye phenomenon
  • Occulovestibular reflex or caloric ice water test
24
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Flex knee, attempt to extend the leg pain develops

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Kernigs sign

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Passively flex the neck spontaneous flexion of the hips occurs.

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Brudzinski reflex

26
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Left frontal lobe (motor speech center)

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Broca’s speech

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Temporal lobe (auditory speech center)

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Wernicke’s area

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Originates from the thoracolumbar segment of the spinal cord is the inhibitory impulse

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Originates from the craniosacral segment of the spinal cord is the motor impulse

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Parasympathetic nervous system

30
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Station is …

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Posture

31
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Gait is a matter of

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Walking

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Is elicited by applying light stimulus, moved side to side into the pupil; results in a constriction of the pupils

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Direct light reflex

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Result to simultaneous constriction of both pupil even if the light is applied to only one pupil.

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Consensual light reflex

34
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Results to constriction of pupils when gaze is shifted from a distant object to a near object

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Accommodation reflex

35
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This is presented by PERRLA

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Papillary reflex

36
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Elicited by touching the cornea with a wisp of cotton, as the client looks toward opposite direction; blinking of the eyes occurs

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Corneal reflex

37
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Scratching the skin of an abdominal quadrant normally contracts the abdominal muscle in that quadrant.

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Abdominal quadrant

38
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Is produced by tapping the tendon of achilles; plantar flexion of the foot occurs

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Ankle jerk

39
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Is produced by tapping the quadriceps femoris just bellow the patella it results to leg extension

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Knee jerk

40
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Loss of muscle volume

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Atrophy

41
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Is always a part of neurologic assessment that provides information about the nature, location and progression of neurologic disorders.

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Reflex activity assessment

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Olfactory’ s abnormality

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Anosmia

43
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Trochlear abnormalities

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Trochlear neuralgia

44
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Optic abnormalities

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Papilledema

45
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Acoutic abnormalities

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Tinnitus , vertigo

46
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Vagus nerve abnormalities

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Loss of gag reflex, drooling

47
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Hypoglossal

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Protrusion of the tongue

48
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Oculomotor

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dilated pupil, fixed

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