Quiz Questions From Quizzes

Question 1

A 25 y/o has damage to the frontal lobes. What would be expected movements related deficits?

Answer 1

Difficulty initiating voluntary movements

Question 2

T or F: in addition to the role in movement, the basal ganglia play a role in cognition?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Akinesia, bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor, postural instability, freezing, shuffled gait, forward flexed posture are all characteristics of which disorder?

Answer 3

Parkinson’s

Question 4

Dysmetria of the right hand is either overshooting or undershooting of the target during reaching, result from lesions of the _______ cerebellum in pendulous tremor as the Brian trie to correct the movement?

Answer 4

Right lateral

Question 5

What motor association corticies is most active when performing coordinated bilateral movements or complex sequential movements?

Answer 5

Supplemental Motor cortex

Question 6

What muscle contraction is always abnormal and is caused by degeneration of the LMN?

Answer 6

Fibrillations

Question 7

A patient suffers a lesion of the corticospinal tract. What is an example of something that would be affected?

Answer 7

Typing a letter

Question 8

The efference copy of the body is a “snapshot” of the LMN and is formed by the cerebellum as part of the the error correcting function. What tract is responsible for collecting the information from the spinal cord?

Answer 8

Ventral spinocerebellar tract

Question 9

At what point do most of the axons of the lateral cortical spinal pathway cross to the opposite side of the CNS?

Answer 9

In the caudal medulla

Question 10

What is the function of the vermis?

Answer 10

Controls axial musculature vie the medial pathways

Question 11

T or F: the cerebellum provides conscious awareness of proprioceptive information?

Answer 11

False

Question 12

The medial pathways are in general concerned with ___?

Answer 12

Control of movement of the postural and girdle muscles

Question 13

A pt. Has an injury to the medial portion of the primary motor cortex. Which part of the body maps to this region of the cortex?

Answer 13

Lower limbs

Question 14

Which pool of motor neurons do the UMN of the lateral corticospinal tracts typically innervate or terminal on the ____ motor neuron pools. These pools innervate the _____ muscle of the body?

Answer 14

Lateral; distal muscles

Question 15

The reticulospinal tract originates from the _____ and _____ decussate as it descends?

Answer 15

Pons and medulla : does not

Question 16

The lateral Vestibulospinal tract originates from the medial and inferior vestibular nuclei in the pons, it descends ______, and terminates at ______.

Answer 16

Ipsilaterally, all spinal cord levels

Question 17

Where is the origin of the rubrospinal tract?

Answer 17

Red nucleus in the midbrain

Question 18

An alpha motor neuron and all the muscle fibers innervated by it make up the elementary component of motor control called….?

Answer 18

Motor unit

Question 19

Does the basal ganglia coordinate and correct complex movements?

Answer 19

No. That’s the cerebellums job

Question 20

The vermis of the cerebellum is associated with….?

Answer 20

Coordination and control of axial muscles

Question 21

Descending axons from the cerebral cortex are located in what section of the brainstem?

Answer 21

Anterior (basilar)

Question 22

The posterior (tectum) section of the brainstem contains which of the following?

Answer 22

Inferior colliculus

Question 23

Regulation of vital functions, awareness, and analgesia by activation of inhibitory interneurons in the ventral horn are the function of what?

Answer 23

Reticular formation

Question 24

The part of the brainstem that supplies dopamine the cerebral areas involved in motivation and decision making is what?

Answer 24

Ventral tegmental area

Question 25

What part of the brainstem produces acetylcholine?

Answer 25

Pedunculopontine nucleus

Question 26

What neurotransmitter produced by the midbrain raphe nuclei has major effects on mood?

Answer 26

Serotonin

Question 27

Which of the following hypothalamic nuclei is responsible for suppressing the activity of the raphe nuclei, locus coeruleus and other neurons that mediate wakeful cortical states, thereby inducing sleep?

Answer 27

Ventrolateral preoptic nucleus

Question 28

Where are the motor nuclei located for Crain all nerves X?

Answer 28

Dorsal cadual medulla

Question 29

What is a function of the Edinger-Westphalia parasympathetic nucleus of the oculomotor nerve?

Answer 29

Contral of the pupillary sphincter and the ciliary muscle

Question 30

What are controlled by the oculomotor nerve?

Answer 30

Muscles of the eye except the superior oblique

Question 31

What is functionally divided into 3 nuclei; the mesencephalic, the chief sensory, and the spinal sensory?

Answer 31

The trigeminal complex

Question 32

First order neurons conveying discriminative touch fro the face synapse where?

Answer 32

Principal sensory nucleus of the trigeminal nerve

Question 33

The temporal is, ,medial nad lateral pterygoid, and mass ether are innervated by what nerve?

Answer 33

Trigeminal

Question 34

What neurotransmitter is involved in regulating the waking state?

Answer 34

Serotonin, dopamine, orexin

Question 35

What nerve innervated the muscles that close the eye, move the lips, produce facial muscles, And lacrimal glands

Answer 35

Facial nerve

Question 36

AN individual has a lesion in the right nucleus of cranial nerve 6. WHat would be difficult for the right eye?

Answer 36

Looking laterally

Question 37

Elevation of the pharynx in swallowing is driven by what nuclei?

Answer 37

Nucleus ambiguous

Question 38

A drug suppresses the activity of the sympathetic nervous system. If the person should take a trip moving 4 time zones, will he be able to rapidly acclimate to the new time?

Answer 38

No. Stimulation of the pineal glans depends on the sympathetic nervous system.

Question 39

A “wakeful” cortical state is defined by EEG waveforms. Wake appears as ______ waves corresponding to columns of neurons in the cortex firing _____.

Answer 39

High frequency, low amplitude; separately (desynchronized)