Week 1 Consciousness- Purnuske

Question 1

Define cosciousness

Answer 1

Need to be awake and aware

Awake- open eyes, motor arousal, different levels of consciousness

Aware- Experience thoughts, memories and emotions

Question 2

Function of Forebrain

Answer 2

Motor control
somatosensory processing
emotion
thoughts
planning
memory

Question 3

Function of brainstem

Answer 3

Homesostasis
life-sustaining function
cranial nerve nuclei

Question 4

Function of cerebellum

Answer 4

Coordination of movements that use more than one joint (running)

Question 5

Spinal Cord

Answer 5

Propioreception
spinal reflexes
sympathetic nervous system (move stuff from periphery to brain and back like a two lane highway)

Question 6

Anatomic lesion of a coma?

Answer 6

Damage to

• both cerebral hemispheres
• Brain stem or thalamus

Question 7

Anatomic lesion for vegetative state?

Answer 7

Damage to cortex or thalamus

-INTACT brainstem

Question 8

Anatomic lesion of lock-in syndrome?

Answer 8

Lesion on bilateral ventral pons

Question 9

Cause of minimally conscious state?

Answer 9

Drug
Alcohol
Trauma

Question 10

Define coma

Answer 10

Not awake
Not aware
No motor function- may have some spinal reflexes

Question 11

Define vegetative state

Answer 11

Awake
NOT aware
May smile, grimace, or reflexively grip hand
No visual but can open eyes

Question 12

Define locked in syndrome

Answer 12

Awake
Aware- normal, intact
No motor function = quadriplegia, can't talk
Sensory loss
Can hear, see, and have emotions