Ot Neuro

Front 1

The area of the brain that controls motor aspects of speech and is located in the frontal lobe is known as...

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Broca's area

Front 2

What lobe recieves fibers conveying touch, proprioception, pain and temp. sensations from opposite side of the body?

Back 2

Parietal lobe

Front 3

What area of the frontal lobe controls emotions, judgement?

Back 3

Prefrontal cortex

Front 4

What area of the temporal lobe controls language comprehension?

Back 4

Wernicke's area

Front 5

What lobe mainly controls visual functions?

Back 5

Occipital

Front 6

What is phylogenetically the oldest part of the brain?

Back 6

Limbic system

Front 7

What part of the brain controls basic functions--feeding, emotions, sexual response, etc.?

Back 7

Limbic system

Front 8

What maintains body homeostasis?

Back 8

Hypothalamus

Front 9

Ascending fiber systems are considered _________ pathways; Descending fiber systems are considered__________ pathways

Back 9

Sensory; motor

Front 10

What sensory pathway conveys sensations of pain and temperature?

Back 10

Spinothalamic tract

Front 11

What sensory pathway conveys proprioception information?

Back 11

Spinocerebellar tracts

Front 12

What sensory pathway conveys sensation of proprioception, vibration, and tactile descrimination?

Back 12

Dorsal columns/medial lemniscal system

Front 13

What sensory pathway conveys deep adn chronic pain?

Back 13

Spinoreticular tracts

Front 14

What motor pathway is important for voluntary motor control?

Back 14

Corticospinal tract

Front 15

What part of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) prepares the body for fight or flight emergency responses?

Back 15

Sympathetic

Front 16

What part of the ANS slows heart rate and decreases BP?

Back 16

Parasympathetic

Front 17

A person exhibiting symptoms of flaccidity, decreased tendon reflexes and atrophy is likely to have a UMN or LMN disorder?

Back 17

Lower Motor Neuron (LMN)

Front 18

Spasticity, emergence of primitive reflexes, and clonus would likely have a UMN or LMN disorder?

Back 18

Upper Motor Neuron--could have flaccidity at the level of the lesion, though.

Front 19

A person experiencing aphasia, movement on the R side of the body, and speech deficits is likely to have a _____ hemisphere stroke.

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Left

Front 20

What does the Glasgow Coma Scale assess?

Back 20

Eye opening, Best Motor Response, Verbal Response for a TBI pt.

Front 21

A pt. with a TBI has heightened response, is severely confused, and could be aggressive. What Ranchos Level is he?

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Level IV: Confused & Agitated

Front 22

What Ranchos Level would a person be if he is responding adequately, but subtle impairments still exists?

Back 22

Level VIII: Puposeful-appropriate

Front 23

A TBI pt. has robot like responses and judgement is poor. What Ranchos level is he?

Back 23

Level VII: Automatic-appropriate

Front 24

What Ranchos level is characteristic of high distractibility level and confusion with complex commands?

Back 24

Ranchos Level V: Confused-inappropriate

Front 25

When a pt. is unresponsive to stimuli, he is considered a Ranchos Level...

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I

Front 26

When a pt. is responsive to certain types of stimuli, but inconsistent and delayed, the person is a Ranchos Level

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III: Localized

Front 27

A TBI pt. with a generalized response would that is nonspecific, inconsisten,a dn nonpurposeful is at a Ranchos Level...

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II

Front 28

When a TBI pt. is confused but appropriate and requires cueing to complete tasks, he is classified as a Ranchos Level...

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VI: Confused appropriate

Front 29

A spinal cord injury due to hyperextension, presenting with more UE deficits than LE deficits is known as...

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Central Cord Sydnrome

Front 30

A person who had hemi-section of the cord resulting in ipsilateral spastic paralysis adn loss of position sense and contralateral loss of pain and thermal care is known as

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Brown-Sequard

Front 31

A Spinal Cord injury due to flexion injuries where motor function, pain, and temperature sensation are lost bilaterally below the lesion is known as...

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Anterior Cord Syndrome

Front 32

This spinal cord injury occurs at L1 and below resulting in LMN lesion causing flaccid paralysis with no spinal reflex activity.

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Cauda Equina Syndrome

Front 33

According to the ASIA Impairment Scale, a pt. with complete, no sensory or motor function, injury is classified as what?

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ASIA A

Front 34

A pt. with an incomplete SCI that has sensory function but no motor function below the level of the injury is classified as what on the ASIA Impairment Scale

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ASIA B

Front 35

ASIA ____ would classify a person with an incomplete SCI who has motor function below the level of injury

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ASIA C

Front 36

A person with LE motor and sensory loss along with reflexive bowel and bladder likely has this diagnosis?

Back 36

Conus Medullaris

Front 37

An abnormal response to a noxious stimulus, such as a catheter being blocked or sitting on a sharp object is known as...

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Autonomic Dysreflexia

Front 38

What are the obvious symptoms of Autonomic Dysreflexia?

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extreme rise in BP, pounding headache, profuse sweating

Front 39

A lesion in the motor cortex will result in what type of CP?

Back 39

Spastic--flexor and extensor imbalance

Front 40

A lesion in the basal ganglia will result in what type of CP?

Back 40

Choreathetosis: dsykinesia, dystonia, athetosis:

Front 41

A lesion in the cerebellum will cause what type of CP?

Back 41

Ataxic

Front 42

A resting "pill-rolling" tremor of one hand is a symptom of what?

Back 42

Parkinson's disease

Front 43

What Neuromuscular disease can be detected prenatally through amniocentesis for levels of alphafetoprotein and acetylocholinesterase and is due to a neural tube defect?

Back 43

Spina Bifida

Front 44

A person is having difficulty with bowel and bladder, gait disturbances and has gait deformities. All are common of what diagnosis?

Back 44

Tethered Cord Syndrome: occurs when the tail end of the spinal cord is stretched and a result of compression, being trapped with a fatty mass, or a developmental abnormality

Front 45

A child with enlarged calf, forearm, and thigh muscles that gives the appearance that a child is healthy is actually experiencing the most common form of muscular dystrophy...what is it?

Back 45

Duchenne's MD: it is inherited, sex-linked and recessive occuring in males; enlargement is due to formation of adipose tissue

Front 46

What is the phenomenon called when a child has to crawl up his thighs with his hands to stand from a kneeling position known as?

Back 46

Grower's sign

Front 47

A motor neuron disease of unknown etiology that is characterized by progressive degeneration of coricospinal tracts adn anterior horn cells or bulbar efferent neurons is known as...

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ALS--Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Front 48

This disorder may be due to traction during birth, invasion of metastatic cancer, or traction injury, causing mixed motor/sensory disorders of the corresponding limb.

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Brachial Plexus Disorder

Front 49

A pt. is experiencing rapidly progressive form of polyneuropathy with symmetric muscular weakness and mild distal sensory loss/paresthesias..what is his diagnosis?

Back 49

Guillain-Barre syndrome

Front 50

A slowly progressive CNS disease characterized by patches of demyelination in the brain and spinal cord?

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MS--Multiple Sclerosis

Front 51

What's more common: phantom limb pain or phantom limb sensation?

Back 51

Phantom limb SENSATION

Front 52

A chronic state of recurrent seizures is known as...

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epilepsy

Front 53

What is the most common type of seizure disorder in children where there is a brief warning/aura with numbness, taste, smell, or other sensation?

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Tonic-Clonic Seizure/Grand Mal seizures

Front 54

What seizures are difficult to control, are brief, and inlude a loss of tone?

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Myoclonic-akinetic seizure

Front 55

This type of seizure is characteristic of a child who does not fall down during the seizure, but does not recall any lapse of time or the episode.

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Petit Mal or Absence Seizure

Front 56

Should you allow the individual to sleep or rest after the seizure?

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Yes

Front 57

Should you ever guide the child having a seizure to the floor?

Back 57

Yes, if they are upright it is okay to guide them to the floor.

Front 58

Why should you turn the child having the seizure on his/her side?

Back 58

to prevent choking

Front 59

Should you be alarmed if the child stops breathing momentarily during a seizure?

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no, only if the child's breathing actually stops should you begin rescue breathing techniques

Front 60

With Guillain-Barre Syndrome, weakness is initially more apparent proximal or distal?

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DISTAL