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| Areas concerned with personality, emotions, behavior and intellectual function |
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| Precentral gyrus of the frontal lobe |
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Initiates voluntary movement
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(cerebellum smoothes this) |
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| Primary Center of sensation |
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Primary auditory reception center
Hearing, taste + smell |
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| When wernicke's area is damaged what happens? |
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Receptive aphasia
Person hears sounds but they have no meaning *like hearing a foreign language |
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On the frontal lobe
Mediates motor speech |
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| If Broca's area is damaged what happens? |
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| The person can understand language, and knows what they want to say, but they can only produce a garbled sound. |
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Major respiratory center with vital body functions
(appetite, sex drive, heart rate and blood pressure, sleep center, Anterior/posterior pituitary gland regulator and coordinator of ANS activity |
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concerned with motor coordination of voluntary movements, muscle tone and equilibrium.
smoothes movements pretty much |
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What is a babinski test?
What is a positive babinski? What is this a sign of? |
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Run blunt object along lateral side of foot to the ball of the foot.
Fanning out of the toes after two-two1/2 years -> pyramidal tract disease. |
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| A hyperactive reflex with sustained clonus occurs with |
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| Upper motor neuron disease |
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| Decrease or los of smell occurs biltaterally with tobacco smoking, allergic rhinitis and cocaine use -- |
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| End-point nystagmus, a few beats of horizontal nystagmus at extreme lateral gaze |
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| The most anterior part of the brainstem that still have the basic tubular structure of the spinal cord. (merges into thalamus and hypothalamus) |
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| Enlarged area containing ascending and descending motor tracts with two respiratory centers (pneumotaxic and apneustic) |
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| Continuationof the spinal cord in the brain that contains ALL ascending and descending fiber tracts |
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| Coiled structure located under the occipital lobe that is concerned with motor coordination of voluntary movements, equilibriam and muscle tone. |
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| They help initiate and coordinate movement and control automatic associated movements of the body |
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| Motor activity in the newborn is controlled |
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| spinal cord and the medulla |
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| Persistence of primitive reflexes in an indication of |
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| A patient who says "this is the worst headache of my life" needs: |
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| emergency referral to screen for cerebrovascular cause |
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| A sudden loss of strength, temporary loss of consciousness due to lack of cerebral bloodflow |
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| A rotational spinning caused by neurologic disease in the vestibular apparatus in the ear or in the vestibular nuclei in the brainstem |
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| The inability to control the disnace, power and speed of a muscular action. |
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| uncoordinated or unsteady gait |
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| A positive romberg occurs with |
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| cerebellar ataxia, loss of proprioception and loss of cestibular function |
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| Inability to perform knee bend is caused by |
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| weakness in quads or hip extensors |
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| Sitting on edge of chair or curled in bed, tense muscles, frowning, darting watchful eyes, restless pacing occurs with |
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| anxiety or hyperthyroidism |
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| Restless fidgety movements or hyperkinetic appearance occurs with |
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| innappropriate dress can occur with |
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| eccenric dress combination and bizarre makeup ocur with |
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| schizophrenia or manic syndrome |
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