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| Are Schwann cells produced in the PNS or the CNS? |
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| Schwann cells are myelin producing cells in the PNS |
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| What nervous system controls skeletal muscle? |
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| What numerous glial cells of the CNS contribute to the blood brain barrier? |
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The arachnoid membrane is avascular |
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| What returns CSF back to the blood via the internal jugular veins of the neck? |
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| Where does CSF build up in hydrocephalis? |
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| What disease is the most common cause for myelin breakdown? |
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| What tissue in the brain do neurons comprise? (functional cells) |
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| What type of cells are constantly being replaced? |
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Nociceptors are slowly adapting receptors (refers to stimulus) |
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| Name the area in the periphery over which a receptor can receive input |
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Ruffini corpuscles are found in hairy skin |
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| True (non-glaborous skin) |
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| Free (naked) nerve endings are what type of terminal branches of the neuron? |
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| Unmyelinated branches of the neuron |
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Muscle spindles and golgi tendon organs are proprioceptors |
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C-fibre stimulation results in immobilization |
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| A-delta fibres nociceptors carry what type of pain? |
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Spinal nerves are mixed nerves |
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All unipolar neurons are attached to sensory receptors |
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| What attaches to 1B fibres? |
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| What do you call a bundle of nerve fibres (axons)? |
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| The spinal cord in an adult extends from the foramen magnum to... |
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The meninges from brain are continuous to cover the spinal cord |
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| What suspends the spinal cord within the dura mater and stabilize against motion? |
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| What do you call a bundle of axons in the PNS? |
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| Does the dorsal root carry afferent or efferent information? |
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| What is the area from which a pair of dorsal and ventral roots arise (in the spinal cord)? |
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| How many pairs of spinal nerves, cervical nerves, thoracic nerves, lumbar nerves, sacral nerves, and coccygeal nerves does the spinal cord contain? |
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31 pairs of nerves total
Cervical: 8
Thoracic: 12
Lumbar: 5
Sacral: 5
Coccygeal: 1 |
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Do the first cervical nerves leave the vertebral canal above or below the corresponding vertebrae?
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| What partially divides the spinal cord into right and left sides? |
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Anterior median fissure
Posterior median sulcus |
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The cervical enlargement of the spinal cord corresponds roughly to nerves innervating the lower limb |
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White matter contains many tracts |
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The names of motor tracts end in "spinal" |
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| Which horn is the location of cell bodies of motor neurons? |
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| Each cerebral hemisphere has 4 lobes. Name them |
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Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital |
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| The motor cortex of the frontal lobe lies immediately anterior to the... |
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| Broca's aphasia is associated with which lobe? |
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| Stereognosis (ability to recognize objects by touch) is an important function of which lobe? |
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| Which lobe interprets auditory and olfactory stimuli? |
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| The temporal may be associated with what type of aphasia? |
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| What does the occipital lobe interprete? |
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| What is sometimes severed in patients with severe/disabling seizures? |
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| What type of fibres connect and transmit impulses between gyri in the same hemisphere? |
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| The motor cortex, cerebellum and basal ganglia are the 3 key higher centres of the brain that regulate... |
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| What is responsible for background positioning? |
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| What is the first point of sensory awareness? |
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The hypothalamus is above the hypophysis (pituitary) |
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| Which gland does the epithalamus contain which secretes melatonin? |
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| What part of the brainstem helps to maintain consciousness? |
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| What regulates heart rate, respiratory rate, vasoconstriction, swallowing, coughing and CV control? |
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| What part of the brain is made up of cerebellum, pons, medulla oblongata? |
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| Intention tremors are due to damage of the... |
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T or F?
The tentorium cerebelli is a strong horizontal fold of dura mater that is attached along the midline to the falx cerebri |
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T or F?
Cranial nerves are upper motor neurons |
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False
Cranial nerves are LMN |
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| Which cranial nerve detects pheromones? |
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| What cranial nerve innervates the superior oblique muscle? |
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| AP are interpreted as visual images by which lobe with which associating cranial nerve? |
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Occipital lobe
CN2 - optic |
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| Which cranial nerve opens the eyes? Which cranial nerve closes the eyes? |
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Open the eye = CN3 - oculomotor (motor)
Close the eye = CN7 - facial (motor) |
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| Which cranial nerves are associated with the pupillary reflex? |
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CN2- Optic
CN6 - Abducens |
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| What is the most frequently occuring of all nerve pain disorders? |
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| trigeminal neuroglia (tic douloureux) |
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| Perception is a combination of transmission and... |
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| What components may alter one's perception? |
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perception = combination of transmission and modulation
*can be altered by emotions eg: fear, rage, depression* |
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| What kind of pathway is the the dorsal column (medial lemniscal tract)? |
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| Dorsal column aka medial lemniscal tract is a TOUCH pathway |
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| Pain pathways are carried from which tract? |
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| Anterolateral spinothalamic tract is a pain pathway |
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| What is another name for the brainstem? |
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| Where does the 2nd order neuron of DC tract terminate? |
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The Dorsal Column is associated with fine touch |
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| Where does the 1st order neuron of the pain pathway (neospinalthalamic tract) terminate? |
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| What type of pain is carried by the paleospinothalamic tract? |
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| Which system is the major centre for processing emotional response and for learning and memory? |
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| Which cranial nerve is associated with you smiling? |
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| CN7 - facial (motor component) |
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| Which cranial nerve is associated with you chewing? |
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| CN5 - Trigeminal (motor component) |
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| You lick a paper and feel the paper on your tongue. Which CN is the contributor? |
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| CN5 - trigeminal (sensory component) |
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| Your balance and equilibrium has to do with which cranial nerve? |
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CN8 - vestibulocochlear/acoustic/auditory
*this is the vestibular division* |
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| Your hearing has to do with which CN? |
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CN8 - vestibulocochlear
*hearing is the cochlear division* |
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| Which CN controls trapezius and SCM? |
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| You lick a piece of paper. The reason you are able to control your tongue is thanks to which CN? |
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| CN12 - hypoglossal (motor component of tongue) |
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| You taste a piece of gum. What CN is contributing? |
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| CN7 - facial (sensory component) |
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| Which CN controls your pharynx (motor)? |
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| CN9 - glossopharyngeal controls the pharynx (motor component) |
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| Your pupils constrict. Which CN contributes? |
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| You look side to side. Which CN is contributing? |
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| CN6 - Abducens (motor) for eye movement/lateral deviation |
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| You move your eyes in and down. Which CN is a contributor? |
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| All cranial nerves originate in the brainstem except for which? |
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| What do you define someone with no sense of smell? |
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| What term defines firing? |
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| Another word for convert is... |
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| Another term for propagate is... |
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| What term is used to define your blind spot? |
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| Which muscle is supplied by CN3 (oculomotor)? |
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| Levator palpebrae superioris |
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| The inability to coordinate both eyes in horizontal movement is due to damage from which cranial nerve? What do you call that disorder? |
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CN3 (occulomotor) & CN6 (abducens)
Internuclear ophthalmoplegia |
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