Cumulative
Cumulative
Balance & Vestibular
Spinal Cord
Cranial Nerves
100

The midbrain, pons, and medulla make up THIS structure of the central nervous system.

What is the brainstem?


p. 5-9

Objective Unit 1- Question 2

100

When screening for nociceptive sensation, you are screening the function of information that runs along THIS pathway.

What is the spinothalamic pathway of the anterolateral systems?


Fig 11.6

Objective Unit 8 -Questions 3 and 10

100

The nuclei within THIS system contribute to providing sensory information about head movement, gaze stabilization, postural adjustments, and autonomic function.

What is the vestibular system?


p. 422

Objective Unit 11- Question 1

100

The myotome of small finger abduction is associated with THIS level of the spinal cord.

What is T1?


pp. 150-151, 115, 328-329, 332, ASIA

Objective Unit 12 Question 1; Objective Unit 3- Question 3

100

THIS cranial nerve contributes to the function of vision, but is not responsible for eye movement.

What is the optic nerve?


p. 363

Objective Unit 13- Question 1

200

THIS structure separates the primary motor cortex in the frontal lobe from the primary somatosensory cortex in the parietal lobe.

What is the central sulcus?


p. 8-9; Figure 2.9

Objective Unit 1- Question 3

200

When performing MMT or a clinical strength screening of the upper and lower extremities, you are testing motor information that runs on THIS pathway.

What is the lateral corticospinal tract?


p. 248; Table 14.3

Objective Unit 9- Question 4b

200

THIS symptom, described as an illusion of motion, is the most common symptom of vestibular dysfunction.

What is vertigo?


p. 425

Objective Unit 11- Question 1

200

With a lesion in the reflex circuit of THIS area of the spinal cord, genital sensation and function will be absent.

What is S2-S4?

p. 346; Table 19.3

Objective Unit 12- Question 4

200

The abducens, facial , and vestibulocochlear nerves all share THIS connection to the brain.

What is the pontomedullary junction (space between the pons and medulla)?


p. 363

Objective Unit 13 – Question 1

300

On a T1 MRI scan, the basal ganglia will show up as THIS color on the scan, as this structure is a significant grey matter structure, where information is being processed.

What is grey?


p. 4-5, p. 49-59

Objective Unit 1- Question 1; Unit 2 – Objective 1

300

The middle cerebral artery is part of the anterior circulation and is a continuation of THIS artery.

What is the internal carotid artery?


p. 461

Objective Unit 1 – Question 4 and Unit 4- Question 3

300

THIS vestibular structure contains the cochlea, three semicircular canals, and two otolith organs.

What is the bony labyrinth of the vestibular apparatus?


p. 422

Objective Unit 11 – Question 2

300

You are working in early intervention and step on a lego. Your body automatically lifts your foot away from the stimulus. What is THIS response called.

What is the withdrawal reflex?

Fig 29.11


Objective Unit 12 – Question 2

300

Tic douloureux, a dysfunction of THIS cranial nerve, produces severe, sharp, stabbing pain in the distribution of the nerve branches.

What is the trigeminal nerve?


p. 376

Objective Unit 13- Question 2

400

Your patient has experienced a stroke. Their symptoms include language deficits and right-sided upper extremity weakness, and right-sided upper extremity sensation decreases.

What is the left MCA stroke?


p. 10, 13; p. 461-467

Objective Unit 1- Question 4; Unit 4 – Question 3

400

Your patient has experienced a large PCA stroke, which has impacted the thalamus, in addition to the occipital lobe. Hemisensory loss can result due to THESE pathways running through the thalamus.

What are the dorsal column medial lemniscus and spinothalamic sensory pathways?


Objectives

Unit 1 – Question 4

Unit 4 – Question 3

Unit 8 – Question 1

400

You are trying to read your neuroscience textbook on the treadmill, but you find that if you run fast, you can not read the words. You can only read the words when you are walking very slowly and your head is not bobbing around. This suppression of visual details when vestibular activity is increased is referred to as THIS.

What is the inhibitory visual-vestibular interaction?


p. 425

Objective Unit 11- Question 4

400

THIS region of the brain works with the pons and the sacral spinal cord to control the bladder.

What is the frontal cortex or the frontal lobe?


p. 341

Objective Unit 12 – Question 3

400

When screening the cranial nerves, you observe that your patient has paralysis of their frontalis and orbicularis oculi muscle on the right side of their face. They also have loss of taste on the right side of their anterior tongue. You suspect THIS cranial nerve is damaged.

What is the facial nerve?


p. 377

Objective Unit 12 – Questions 2 and 3

500

After putting on their shirt, your patient shares that their tag is bothering them. However, after a few minutes, they share that they no longer notice the tag. This decrease in response to a repeated, benign stimulus [the shirt tag] is considered THIS form of neuroplasticity.

What is Habituation?


p. 99-108

Objective Unit 2- Question 2

500

Your patient has been referred for deficits resulting from a lesion of their left lateral cerebellum. During the screening for ataxia, you would likely find finger and hand ataxia on THIS side.

What is their left side?


p. 266


Objective Unit 10 – Questions 6 & 7

500

Your patient shares that they experience dizziness each time after they look up, for example, whenever they lean their head back to rinse the shampoo out of their hair in the shower. They do not experience dizziness at any other time or with any other movements. They are likely experiencing THIS type of dizziness.

What is triggered episodic (acute dizziness)?


p. 443

Objective Unit 11 – Question 6

500

An individual with central cord syndrome will have a loss of pain and temperature sense at the level of the injury, due to damage to THIS area of the spinal cord, where information on the spinothalamic tract decussates.

What is the anterior commissure?


pp. 167-168, 344, 467


Objectives

Unit 12 – Question 5

Unit 8 – Question 3

500

When testing cranial nerve function, you find your patient has dysarthria. This is a potential red flag for damage to THIS or THESE nerves.

What are CN 5 (trigeminal), 7 (facial), 10 (vagus), and/or 12 (hypoglossal) nerve?


p. 152 Gutman & Schonfeld; p. 381

Objective Unit 12 Question 2 & 3

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