CN
Place of origin for 10 out the 12 cranial nerves
What is the brain stem?
This tract is responsible for voluntary motor activity
What is corticospinal tract?
2 main fissures of cerebellum
The great error detector and corrector
What is the cerebellum?
An alteration in brain function, or other evidence of brain pathology,
caused by an external force
What is a traumatic brain injury?
These CN’s are both sensory and motor
What are CN’s V (Trigeminal), VII (Facial), IX (Glossopharyngeal), X (Vagus)
In this tract, the 2nd order neuron decussates in the spinal cord 1 or 2 segments up
What is the lateral spinothalamic tract?
longest part of neuron
What is an axon?
Mossy fibers and Golgi fibers are in this layer
What is the granular layer?
Most common and devastatingly fatal motor neuron disease among adults
What is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis?
Afferent limb of the gag and swallowing reflex
What is CN IX-Glossopharyngeal?
sensory impulses of crude touch and pressure
What is the anterior spinothalamic tract?
I am not capable of transmitting an impulse
What are non-neuroglial cells?
movements are normal strength but jerky and inaccurate; disturbances of posture and gait, decomposition of movement
What is ataxia?
An autoimmune disease that involves acute inflammation and demyelination of peripheral sensory and motor fiber
What is Guillain-Barre Syndrome?
Examiner moves object in the shape of the letter H and instructs patient to follow
What is the oculomotor exam?
These structures carry out unconscious proprioceptive information from muscles to the cerebellum
What are muscle spindles, Golgi tendon organs, and tactile receptors?
These structures remain viable for 18-24 months post injury
What are Schwann cells & endoneurial tubes?
Vestibulocerebellum Flocculodular lobe function
What is concerned with eye movement and balance control – maintenance of posture and balance?
Lou Gehrig’s Disease
What is another name for ALS?
Pupils are equal, round, and reactive
What is the pupillary reflex?
What are the vestibulospinal tract, tectospinal tract, reticulospinal tract, and rubrospinal tract?
The body and all the structures arise from these structures
What is the endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm?
Sensory information comes in from muscle spindle, GTO, joint receptors about position
Where does sensory information come from in the Spinocerebellum Anterior lobe?
a chain of cellular events that follows tissue damage in addition to the effects of hypoxemia, hypotension, ischemia, edema, and elevated IC
What is a secondary TBI injury?