Neuro-final Flashcards

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The basal ganglia

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Initiates and coordinates movement

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The thalamus

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Main relay station

The. Integrating center with connections that are crucial to Human emotion and creativity

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Hypothalamus

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Major first between center with basic vital functions: temperature, appetite, sex drive, heart rate, blood pressure, sleep Center, but to a Terry gland regulator, or needs automatic nervous system and stress response

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Cerebellum

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Motor coordination of voluntary

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5
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Brainstem

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Central core of the brain

Cranial nerves 3-6

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Frontal

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Personality, behavior, emotions, intellectual function

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7
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Parietal lobe

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Sensation

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8
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Occipital lobe

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Visual reception

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9
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Hearing, taste and smell identify with which lobe

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Temporal lobe

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10
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How to asses for deep tendon reflexes in the biceps

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While supporting the form of the patient, place your index finger over the anti-cubital fossa on the tendon; stroke your finger with the reflex hammer

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How to assess the deep tendon reflexes of the triceps?

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While supporting the upper arm of the patient with the elbow flexed and relaxed, stretch the tendon just above the elbow

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12
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While supporting the form, strike the tendon with the reflex hammer assess for what tendon?

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Brachioradialis

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13
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How to assess the deep tendon reflexes of the patella

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With the patient sitting in knees flexed, strike the tendon just below the Patella

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How to assess the deep tendon reflexes of the Achilles

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With the patient sitting, grass for it with one hand and stroke the Achilles tendon with the reflex hammer

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15
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Babinski

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Using the handle of the reflex hammer, stroke the lateral side of the foot and across the ball

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16
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Subjective data

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Headaches, head injury, dizziness, seizures, tremors, weakness

17
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Seizures

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Episodic abnormal electrical discharges(excessive concurrent firing) of cerebral neurons

18
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Encephalitis

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Acute inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, involving the meninges, often due to a virus such as herpes simplex virus

19
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Minute giantess

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Inflammatory process in the meninges, the membrane around the brain and spinal cord

20
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Intracranial tumors

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Abnormal growth or non—year-old tissue within the cranial cavity that may be a primary or metastasized cancer

21
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Stroke

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Set an interruption of blood supply to a part of the brain sure of the blood vessels spilling blood into spaces around the brain cells

22
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Myasthenia

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Autoimmune disorder of neuromuscular transmission

23
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Guillain Barre syndrome

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Autoimmune mediated distraction of Peripheral nerve myelin sheath and inflammation of the nerve roots

24
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Trigeminal neuralgia

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We current proxysmal sharp pain that radiates into one or more branches of the fifth cranial nerve

25
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Bell palsy

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Temporary acute paralysis or weakness of the side of the face

26
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Peripheral neuropathy

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Disorder of the peripheral nervous system that results in motor and sensory loss and the distribution of one or more nerves