Internal Spinal Cord
Internal CNS
Gross CNS Division
Cerebrospinal Fluid
100

The spinal cord is divided into 10 Laminae. A patient has damage to laminae VIII and IX. There most likely to have ___________issues 

What is Motor Function?

100

This structure separates the primary sensory and motor cortices.

What is the central sulcus?

100

The brain has 2 major areas of speech. The Broca and Wernicke area They are located in the following lobe(s) of the brain…(Bonus) Name their functions. 

What is the frontal lobe and temporal lobe? 

(100) what are speech articulation and language comprehension, spoken and written?

100

This structure within the ventricles is the main site responsible for cerebrospinal fluid production.

What is the choroid plexus?

200

The nucleus Proprius is connected to laminae III and IV. This nucleus gives rise to one of our major spinal tracts.

What is the Spinothalamic or Anterolateral tract?

200

As depicted by the somatosensory homunculus, these body parts have the most neurons designated to its sensation. 

What are the hands and face?

200

The Basal Ganglia is composed of three structures, each with their own role in the initiation and termination of movement. Those structures are… 

What are the caudate nucleus, putamen, and Globus pallidus?

200

This layer of the meninges is where cerebrospinal fluid is circulated.

What is the subarachnoid space?

300

(fasciculus/ nucleus) The Nucleus Cuneatus and Gracilis are major nuclei of the __(tract)___. Each corresponds to a sensation on a particular part of the body. The Nucleus Cuneatus is sensation_________. The Nucleus Gracilis is sensation__________

Bonus: Type of sensation and name of tract

What is Above T6, below T6; 

(200) Bonus: light touch, DCML

300

This clinical manifestation is also known as “receptive aphasia” and is associated with a lesion located within Broadman’s areas 41, 42.

What is Wernicke’s aphasia?

300

Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are both disorders related to the basal ganglia. However, two different structures are involved in each disorder. 

What are substantia nigra and striatum?

300

This diagnostic procedure is performed to analyze the contents of cerebrospinal fluid. Bonus: (100) Where is the lumbar puncture initiated?


What is a lumbar puncture? Bonus: Between L3 and L4.

400

A patient can receive an injury at many points of a motor tract. A PT must be able to distinguish between the common signs of a UMN and LMN lesion. Patient with an LMN lesion present with _________. Patient with UMN lesions usually presents with ________. 

What is muscle weakness/hyporeflexia; spasticity/hyperreflexia? 

400

Afferent signals are transmitted through the CNS and ultimately synapse with nuclei in the postcentral gyrus, the sensation of a soft brush will be transmitted up via this tract. 

What is the dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway?

400

The brain is divided into four major lobes, parietal, temporal, frontal, and occipital. Each lobe has major function associated with them. Parietal’s is ____, temporal is ______, frontal is _____, occipital is ______. 

(100 per blank another team can steal)

P: somatic sensation and perception. T: memory (limbic system) and special senses, vision, olfaction, audition, F: planning reasoning and problem-solving, emotion, and personality. O: vision information/vision

400

List the three causes of hydrocephalus

What are decreased absorption, obstruction, and excessive production?

500

Tracts are similar to the direction to a destination. The terms used in Neuroscience are orders. For the Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscus tract, the first order neuron is the_________; the second order neuron is the ________.

What are the Dorsal root ganglion and nucleus gracilis/cuneatus?

500

These nuclei within the spinal cord carry relay signals for sensations of the lower extremities.

What are the gracile nuclei?

500

The Brainstem contains most of our cranial nerves (CN). The brain stem can be subdivided into three major areas: Midbrain, Pons, and Medulla. Each area contains specific CNs. The Midbrain has CN_____ The Pons has CN_____. The Medulla has CN______. 

Midbrain CN 3,4 Pons: CN 5-8 Medulla: CN 9-12

Oculomotor (3), Trochlear(4), Trigeminal(5), Abducens(6), Facial(7), Vestibulocochlear(8), Glossopharyngeal(9), Vagus(10), Accessory(11), Hypoglossal(12).  

500

This instrument is used for diversion treatment of hydrocephalus.

What is a shunt?

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