O15 Neurology - FINAL EXAM

Question 1

All behavior is…

Answer 1

Neurological.

Question 2

Who are Broca and Wernicke?

Answer 2

Anatomists, doctors and scientists who noticed that when a specific area of the brain is injured, specific deficits/behaviors resulted.

Question 3

T/F: Behavioral symptomology & lesion sites are predictable.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What is neuroscience and what are it’s two components?

Answer 4

It focuses on the brain and central nervous system. It is neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.

Question 5

What is the CNS made up of?

Answer 5

Brain
Brainstem
Spinal cord.

Question 6

What is the peripheral nervous system (PNS)?

Answer 6

Nerves that exit the cranium and spinal cord.

Question 7

What will damage to the PNS result in?

Answer 7

IPSILATERAL symptoms

Question 8

How many cranial nerves are there?

Answer 8

12 total (right & left pairs)

Question 9

How many spinal nerves are there?

Answer 9

31 total (right and left pairs)

Question 10

What do the cranial nerves provide for?

Answer 10

the head, face, and neck

Question 11

What are the 12 cranial nerves?

Answer 11

CN I Olfactory 
CN II Optic
CN III Occulomotor 
CN IV Trochlear
CN V Trigeminal 
CN VI Abduceans
CN VII Facial
CN VIII Accoustic/Vestibulocochlear
CN IX Glossopharyngeal
CN X Vagus*
CN XI Accessory
CN XII Hypoglossal

Question 12

What are the four functions of the nervous system?

Answer 12

Sensor - register sensory information (touch, taste, smell, vision, hearing)

Motor - Movement

Integrator - interprets & processes incoming information

Regulator - brainstem function that regulates temperature, blood pressure, alertness, readiness, & muscle tone.

Question 13

What are the two functional divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System?

Answer 13

1. Autonomic Nervous System (ANS): Does automatic things that we are unconscious of, such as breathing.
2. Somatic Nervous System (SNS): Voluntary & deliberate (muscles, speaking, hearing)

Question 14

What are areas 1, 2, & 3?

Answer 14

Somatosensory Cortex - primary sensory

Question 15

What is area 4?

Answer 15

Primary Motor Cortex

Question 16

What are areas 5, 7, & 40?

Answer 16

Association for primary sensory (1, 2, & 3)

Question 17

What is area 6?

Answer 17

Premotor cortex (association for area 4 primary motor)

Question 18

What are areas 9, 10, & 11?

Answer 18

Prefrontal cortex - thinking, reasoning, executive function, problem solving, & social inhibitions.

Question 19

What is area 44?

Answer 19

Broca’s area - SPEECH (motor planning and executing of speech)

Question 20

What is area 22?

Answer 20

Wernicke’s area - LANGUAGE

Question 21

What is areas 41 and 42?

Answer 21

Primary auditory cortex

Question 22

What is area 17?

Answer 22

Primary visual

Question 23

What are areas 18 and 19?

Answer 23

Association for primary visual
19 - following movements
18 - interpretation

Question 24

What is area 39?

Answer 24

The angular gyrus: juncture of parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes (touch, vision, and hearing).