Neurological Issues and Disorders

Question 1

CN I

Answer 1

smell

Question 2

CN II

Answer 2

vision

Question 3

CN III

Answer 3

opening eyelids, papillary constriction, most EOMs

Question 4

CN IV

Answer 4

down and inward eye movement

Question 5

CN V

Answer 5

muscles of mastication; sensation of face, scalp, cornea, mucous membranes, and nose

Question 6

CN VI

Answer 6

lateral eye movement

Question 7

CN VII

Answer 7

move face, close mouth and eyes, taste, saliva and tear secretion

Question 8

CN VIII

Answer 8

hearing and equilibrium

Question 9

CN IX

Answer 9

phonation, gag reflex, swallowing, some taste

Question 10

CN X

Answer 10

talking, swallowing

Question 11

CN XI

Answer 11

shrug shoulders

Question 12

CN XII

Answer 12

moves the tongue

Question 13

What is the pneumatic for remembering the cranial nerves?

Answer 13

“on old olypmus towering tops, a finn and german viewed some hops”

Question 14

What cranial nerve(s) are involved in eye movement?

Answer 14

III, IV, VI

Question 15

What cranial nerve(s) are associated with Bell’s palsy?

Answer 15

CN VII

Question 16

What cranial nerve(s) are involved in tongue movement?

Answer 16

CN XII

Question 17

When evaluating for meningitis, what is a positive Kernig sign?

Answer 17

flexion of the hip at 90 degrees and then pain on extension leg

Question 18

When evaluating for meningitis, what is a positive Brudzinski’s sign?

Answer 18

involuntary flexion of legs when neck is flexed

Question 19

What would be present in CSF when a patient has meningitis?

Answer 19

Increased protein and decreased glucose

Question 20

What should come to mind in a patient who loses developmental milestones?

Answer 20

brain tumor

Question 21

Which type of brain tumor predominates and is most common in children ages 4-11?

Answer 21

infratentorial, brainstem tumors

Question 22

Migrane with aura

Answer 22

classic migraine

Question 23

Migraine without aura

Answer 23

common migraine

Question 24

What is due to dilation and excessive pulsation of branches of the external carotid artery?

Answer 24

migraines

Question 25

What is characterized by a unilateral, lateralized dull or throbbing headache that occurs episodically and has an insidios onset?

Answer 25

migraine

Question 26

What is characterized by episodic abdominal pain with nausea, vomiting followed or accompanied by headache?

Answer 26

abdominal migraine

Question 27

Seizure occuring in one hemisphere

Answer 27

partial seizure

Question 28

Seizure involving both hemispheres

Answer 28

generalized seizure

Question 29

Seizure with no loss of consciousness

Answer 29

simple partial seizure

Question 30

Seizure with impaired consciousness

Answer 30

complex partial seizure

Question 31

When is the peak incidence for febrile seizures?

Answer 31

1-3 years

Question 32

What are the majority of febrile seizures classified as?

Answer 32

tonic-clonic lasting <5 minutes

Question 33

What is a neurocutaneous syndrome characterized by numerous cafe-au-lait spots on the body and nerve tumors on the skin and in the body?

Answer 33

neurofibromatosis (von recklinghausen disease)

Question 34

What disease are iris Lisch nodules present?

Answer 34

neurofibromatosis (von recklinghausen disease)