The Great Regulator
The Bee Gees
Let's Limbo!
A higher order
Are you pathological?
100
Lesions to this area of the cerebellum result in truncal ataxia.
What is the vermis?
100
The net effect of excitation of the direct pathway.
What is movement (excitation of the thalamus)?
100
The KEY structure in the formation of memories.
What is the hippocampal formation?
100
Damage to this cortex results in language impairments.
What is the dominant (left) hemisphere?
100
This type of degeneration is characterized by loss of myelin, but the axon remains intact.
What is segmental degeneration?
200
A lesion to this artery would result in unilateral deafness.
What is the AICA?
200
The normal "resting" output of the BG.
What is a small amount of inhibition?
200
The mnemonic used to remember the functions of the limbic system stands for this.
What is HOME (Homeostasis, Olfaction, Memory, Emotion)?
200
Speech that lacks prosody is present in this type of aphasia.
What is Broca's?
200
Your patient presents with symmetrical resting tremor. His most likely diagnosis is this.
What is parkinsonism?
300
These nuclei receive projections from the lateral cerebellar hemispheres.
What are the dentate nuclei?
300
The two structures involved in the indirect pathway that are NOT involved in the direct pathway.
What are the GPe and STN?
300
This is known as a deficit in forming new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
A patient who cannot demonstrate how to brush his teeth has this disorder.
What is apraxia?
300
The two types of degeneration seen in GBS.
What are segmental and wallerian?
400
Lesions resulting in intense vertigo, nausea and vomiting are most likely to occur in this region of the cerebellum.
What is the vestibulo-floccular lobe?
400
Atrophy of this brain region results in Huntington's Disease.
What is the Caudate Nucleus?
400
Decreased volume of this brain region is associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What is the caudate nucleus (head)?
400
The inability to recognize faces.
What is prosopagnosia?
400
Deficiency of this vitamin is often seen in alcoholics, and results in chronic neuropathy.
What is vitamin B1 (Thiamine)?
500
These cells provide output from the cerebellar cortex.
What are Purkinje cells?
500
Three of the common problems associted with BG disorder.
What are chorea, tremor, akinesia, rigidity, bradykinesia, dystonia, athetosis, ballismus, tics, myoclonus?
500
Bilateral lesions of the amygdala result in this syndrome.
What is Kluver-Bucy syndrome?
500
The three key functions of the frontal lobe.
What are Restraint, Order, Initiative?
500
The most commonly inherited polyneuropathy.
What is Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease?
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