Motor Systems
You want to move your foot. Which motor pathway is responsible for this?
What is the corticospinal tract?
ADHD is a disorder associated with which aspect of cognition.
What is attention?
A patient presents with telegraphic speech. Where is the lesion associated with this and what artery is likely implicated in this case?
What is Broadmanns area 6 (Broca's area) AND the MCA.
What is a characteristic associated with hypokinetic dysarthria?
What is reduced loudness, a fast rate, monontonous prosody, consonant imprecision, a hoarse vocal quality and neurogenic stuttering.
What are the phases associated with a healthy swallow?
What is the oral prepatory phase, oral transport, pharyngeal, and esophageal?
A patient has a unilateral UMN lesion impacting CN V. What deficit would I expect to see on an OME?
What is none because CN V provides a signal bilaterally to the LMN in the brainstem.
What is the amygdala? What is the nucleus accumbens?
A patient presents with difficulty repeating what you say. That is the only deficit. Where is the lesion?
What is the arcuate fasciculus?
What level of Van der Merwe's frameworks is associated with flaccid dysarthria?
What is execution?
What afferent tract is activated when you burn your hand cooking?
What is the anterolateral spinothalamic tract?
A patient presents with decerebrate posture following admission to the ED. Where is the lesion associated with that posture.
What is a lesion that has extended past the midbrain.
A patient has difficulty forming new memories after a MVA. What is the condition that this patient has?
What is anterograde amnesia?
What is an aphasia that results in difficulty comprehensing?
What is Wernicke's? What is transcortical sensory? What is global aphasia?
Which type of stroke results from a clot.
What is an ischemic stroke?
What is the right side of each eye OR the nasal half of the left eye and the temporal half of the right eye.
What is the tectospinal tract?
What are some hallmark symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease?
What is difficulty with wayfinding, retrograde and anterograde amnesia, depression, paranoia, confusion, etc.
What is the name of the area near Wernicke's that is associated with agraphia?
What is the supramarginal gyrus AKA angular gyrus
Apraxia of speech results from a lesion in which frono-limbic region and commonly co-occurs with which language disorder?
What is the operculum? AND what is Broca's aphasia?
What is a central pattern generator and where is it located for swallowing function?
What is a collection of neurons that fire in a patterned way to increase efficiency AND the Nucleus tractus solitarius
What is a symptom of UMN disease? What is a symptom of LMN disease?
What is spasticity, hyperreflexia? What is atrophy and fasciculation?
Who was H.M. and what did we learn from his case study?
A patient with severe epilepsy who had a bilateral hippocampectomy. Developed a severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia. Normal IQ, working and procedural memory better preserved.
What are some etiologies that can cause aphasia?
What is tumor, TBI, Alzheimer's, FTD, gun shot wound, stroke?
ALS is associated with UMN and LMN disease. What deficits would I expect to see in speech and swallowing?
What is consonant imprecision, tongue deviation, difficulty with bolus formation, reduced palatal elevation, nasal emissions, vocal fold paralysis, reduced pharyngeal peristalsis, etc.
What is the voltage associated with the resting membrane potential of a neuron?
What is -70 mV?