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What is the primary function of CSF

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cushion the brain and protect brain tissue from injury

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Cerebrum

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  • largest portion of brain
  • cerebral cortex
  • responsible for all conscious behavior, enables individual to perceive, remember, communicate, and initiate voluntary movements
  • frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal loves
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Frontal Lobe of cerebrum

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  • controls voluntary skeletal movement, speech, emotions, and intellectual activity
  • prefrontral cortex controls intellect, complex learning abilities, judgement, reasoning, concern for others, abstract thoughts
  • located at front of head
  • Alcohol affects area of brain and takes away ‘filter’ and morals
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Parietal Lobe of Cerebrum

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  • responsible for conscious awareness of sensation, somatosensory stimuli including temperature, pain, shapes, and 2 point discrimination, touch, pressure, vibration, sharp vs dull
  • located in middle of head between frontal and occipital lobes
  • Proprioception (do you know where your body parts are right now)
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Occipital lobe of Cerebrum

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  • located at back of skull

- visual cortex recieves stimuli from retina and interprets visual stimuli in relation to past expierences

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Temporal Lobe of Cerebrum

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  • Located by each ear
  • responsible for interpreting auditory stimuli
  • olfactory cortex is in this love and transmits impulses r/t smell
  • Superior temporal gyrus
  • Wernikes Area: reception of speech
  • CN8 (acoustic nerve) hears for you and superior temporal gyrus interprets sound
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Diencephalon

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-contains thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus

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Hypothalamus of Diencephalon

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  • autonomic control center, influences bp, pulse, force of heart contraction, digestive motility, respirations, pain perception, pleasure and fear
  • temperature,food intake, water balance and sleep cycles
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Epithalamus of Diencephalon

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  • helps control moods andsleep cycles

- choroid plexus where CSF is formed

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Cerebellum

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  • located below cerebrum, behind brainstem
  • skeletal muscle coordination and smooth movements
  • maintains equilibrium and muscle tone
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Brainstem

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  • contains midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata
  • autonomic control center, influences BP by vasocontricton, respiratory rate, depth, vomitting, hicupping, swallowing, coughing and sneezing
  • cardiorespiratory center
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_________ is key to neuro

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Symetry

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Right precentral gyrus of Frontal Lobe controls:

Left precentral gyrus of Frontal Lobe controls:

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Left Side

Right Side

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Upper Motor Neurons (UMN)

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  • neurons located in precentral gyrus

- contralateral control

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

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  • Talk normal grammar, rate and intonation but cannot properly express self using language
  • usually unaware of how they are speaking and not realize it doesn’t make sense.
  • Caused by injury to that area of brain on Left side
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Jargon Aphasia

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  • incomprehensible, make sense to the individual.

- Has problems selecting right words, may use similar work with similar sound or just a sound to replace words

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Auditory Agnosia

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  • inability to recognize or differentiate between sounds. It -neurological inability of the brain to interpret sound correctly
  • Car motor starting, patient may describe it as lion roaring. Unable to make the connection that its a car engine.
  • caused by damage to auditory cortex in temporal lobe
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Cranial Nerve 0

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  • Nervus Terminalis
  • connects to hypothalamic region of sexual function
  • pheromones
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Cranial Nerve 1

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  • Olfactory

- sense of smell located in temporal lobe

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Cranial Nerve 2

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  • Optic

- Vision

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Cranial Nerve 3

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  • Oculomotor
  • Pupillary reflex
  • muslce movement of eye
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Cranial Nerve 4

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  • Trochlear

- eye muscle movement

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Craninal Nerve 5

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  • Tigeminal

- 3 branches: ophthalmic branch, maxillary branch and mandibular branch

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Cranial nerve 6

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  • Abducens

- mucles movement of eye

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Cranial Nerve 7

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  • Facial
  • taste
  • facial movement such as smiling, frowning
  • tear and saliva production
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Cranial nerve 8

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  • Vestibulocochlear
  • balance and equilibrium
  • hearing
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Cranial Nerve 9

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  • Glossopharyngeal
  • gag and swolloing reflex
  • taste from back of tongue
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Cranial Nerve 10

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  • Vagus

- muscles for throat, mouth, swolloing and talking

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Cranial Nerve 11

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  • Accessory
  • movement of sternocleiodmastoid and trapezius muscles
  • movement of soft palate and pharynx
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Cranial Nerve 12

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  • hypoglossal

- movement of tongue for swallowing and movement of food

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Anosmia

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-loss of smell or the loss of the ability to interpret smell may be the first sign of a neurodegenerative disease

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Aura for temporal lobe seizure

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-funny taste or funny smell

33
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Dopamine and Sexual Function

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  • dopamine plays major role in sexual pleasure center of brain
  • SSRI’s increase serotonin to make you happy, but it also decreases dopamine, which decreases pleasure
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Graphesthesia

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  • Be able to distinguish numbers on palm

- test parietal lobe

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dressing apraxia

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  • Unable to properly dress self (wearing underwear on head… steps into shirt)
  • caused by lesion in parietal lobe
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Ideomotor Apraxia

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  • deficit in ability to plan or complete motor actions on demand.
  • cannot pick up a phone when told to do so but can do it without thinking about it
  • caused by lesion in parietal lobe
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Constructional Apraxia

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  • inability to draw or construct simple configurations, such as intersecting shapes.
  • caused by lesion in parietal lobe
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How to assess cerebelum function

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  • Romberg test: stand up with your feet together and close your eyes
  • Tandem walk: heel to toe
  • Close your eyes and touch your finger to your nose (lighting on an object)
  • Rapid alternating movements
  • Think alcohol
39
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What is:
Truncal Ataxia-
Dysdiadochokinesia
Dysmetria-
Dysarthria-
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  • wide, staggering gait
  • inability to make rapid alternating movements
  • inability to light on an object (touching nose with finger, for example)
  • ”scanning speech”, uh uh um….
40
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What can Papilledema indicate?

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  • Swelling of optic disk

- can indicate cerebral swelling/edema

41
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The Argyll Robertson pupil

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-a pupil that will accommodate but not react to light—aka as “the prostitute’s pupil)

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Corneal Reflex

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  • touch cornea with a cotton wisp and the patient blinks; if the patient is in a coma, use a syringe with saline drops
  • test brainstem activity
  • checks CN 5 and 7
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What is Bells Palsy and what is it caused by?

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  • paralysis of facial muscles – smile, puff cheeks, frown

- Virus or Borrelia burgdorferi if in an endemic area for deer ticks

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visual agnosia

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  • Visual integration/problems manifest as cortical blindness

- occipital cortex function in occipital lobe

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Manifestations of upper motor neuron tract damage (UMN)

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  • contralateral hemiparesis
  • pronator drift
  • hemiparalysis
  • babinski refex, is it present or not? Not - or +
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How to assess CN 2 and 3

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  • pupilary reflex
  • shine light into eye
  • constriction indicates intact CN
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How to assess CN 2,4,6

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  • oculocephalic reflex
  • Doll eye test. turn head side to side
  • eyes straight or slighting lagging behind indicates intact CN
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How to assess CN 3,8

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  • oculovestibular
  • inject ice water into ears
  • eyes going towards that ear indicates intact CN
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How to assess CN 9, 10

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  • gag reflex
  • pharynx irritated with tongue depressor or cotton swab
  • gagging response indicates intake CN
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Neurogenesis

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  • growth of new neuron tracts

- exercise, study, Statins, Lithium, antidepressants

51
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Decerebate

Decorticate

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  • Holding on to wings, characterized by extension,

- Holding on to life, characterized by flexion

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Characteristics of full consciousness

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  • alert and oriented

- comprehends spoken and written language

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Characterisitcs of confusion

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  • unable to think rapidly or deeply
  • poor memory and short attention span
  • judgement is impaired
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Characterisitcs of disorientation

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-not aware of or not oriented to time, place, or person

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Characterisitcs of obtundation

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  • lethargic

- somnolent-responsive to verbal or tactile stimuli but quickly drifts back to sleep

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Characterisitcs of stupor

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  • generally unresponsive

- may be briefly aroused by vigorous repeated stimuli, may shrink or grab at the source of stimuli

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Characteristics of semicomatose

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  • no spontanous movement
  • no response to any stimuli
  • slight movement or withdraw from stimuli without arousal
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Characteristics of Coma

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  • unarousable, no response to any stimuli

- no attempt to withdrawal from stimuli

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Characteristics of Deep Coma

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  • completely unarousable and unresponsive to any stimuli

- absence of brainstem reflexes

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