NILMO 1

Question 1

Frontal Lobe

Answer 1

Motor control center and executive function.

Question 2

Parietal Lobe

Answer 2

Somatosensory processing.

Question 3

Temporal Lobe

Answer 3

Auditory processing and new memory formation.

Question 4

Limbic structures

Answer 4

Emotional processing, learning, and memory.

Question 5

Occipital lobe

Answer 5

Visual processing.

Question 6

Basal ganglia

Answer 6

Coordinates choice of mutually exclusive skeletal muscle actions.
Operational learning - links to limbic system to associate emotions, goals, and motivations with movements.
Dysfunction leads to movement disorders.

Question 7

Thalamus

Answer 7

Homeostasis, life-sustaining functions, cranial nerve nuclei.

Question 8

Midbrain

Answer 8

Vertical eye movements, pupil control, posture and locomotion, non-rapid eye movement, and level of arousal.

Question 9

Pons

Answer 9

Conjugate horizontal eye movements, posture, rapid eye movements, facial expressions.

Question 10

Medulla

Answer 10

Blood pressure, breathing, GI motility, ingestion, equilibrium.

Question 11

Cerebellum

Answer 11

Movement coordination, learning new movements, damage leads to ataxia.

Question 12

Consciousness

Answer 12

Physical enigma, wakefulness (open eyes, motor arousal, level of consciousness) awareness (experience of thoughts, memories and emotions)

Question 13

Coma

Answer 13

Damage to both hemispheres, brainstem, or thalamus. Unresponsive to external stimuli. May have spinal reflexes. No auditory or visual perception. No spontaneous eye opening.

Question 14

Vegetative state

Answer 14

Intact brainstem, damaged cortex or thalamus. Sleep-wake cycles, unresponsive to all stimuli. May smile or grip hands. No thoughts, memories, emotions, or intentions.

Question 15

Minimally conscious state

Answer 15

Some sleep-wake cycles. Incomplete awareness. Visual pursuit, localization of noxious stimulation or contingent behavior such as appropriate smiling or crying to emotional stimuli

Question 16

Locked-in syndrome

Answer 16

Sleep-wake cycles. Intact awareness. Quadriplegia, sensory loss, anarthria. – Conscious but unable to interact with external world (may be able to blink, look up or down). Brainstem lesion (bilateral ventral pons)