What test is when you have your patient stand with their feet together and their arms at their side. Then you have the patient close their eyes and hold the position for a full minute. You are checking their balance.
What is Romberg test?
100
What cranial nerve gives you the ability to smell?
What is the Olfactory, 1st cranial nerve?
100
What is it called when the patient has rotational spinning and the cause is possibly located in the ear or in the brainstem, not from low blood pressure?
What is vertigo?
100
1) What are the two parts of the nervous system?
What is the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system?
100
Tremors could be a sign of ______ disease.
What is Parkinson disease?
200
What is the test when you place a familiar object in the patient's hand and ask the patient what it is?
What is the Stereogenosis test?
200
What cranial nerve is affected with Bell's Palsy?
What is the VII facial nerve?
200
What is the single most important factor in the neuro exam that will show changes first with increased intracranial pressure?
What is level of consciousness?
200
What is the main highway for the fiber tracts that connect the brain to the spinal nerves?
What is the spinal cord?
200
Systolic hypertension, bradycardia, and bradypnea.
What is Cushing Triad or Reflex?
300
ABCDE
What is assessment of mole? Asymmetry, border, color, diameter, evolving
300
How many pairs of cranial nerves?
What is 12?
300
What does it mean when you write PERRLA?
Pupils are equal, round and react to light and accomodation?
300
What is the basic defense mechanisms of the nervous system when you touch something hot?
What is reflexes?
300
Name the two abnormal postures that indicate diffuse brain injury?
What is decorticate and decerebrate?
400
When a patient has a loss of balance, crooked line when they walk, unable to do to a tandem walk (heel-to-toe) - the patient is said to have a/an___________.
What is an unsteady gait?
400
What cranial nerve is responsible for tongue movement?
What is cranial nerve 12?
400
The patient complains of temporary loss of consciousness following hitting head on floor.
What is a concussion?
400
The three compartments in the skull and which one cannot accomodate very much increase in the others?
What is blood; cerebral spinal fluid and brain tissue? What is brain tissue?
400
Patient will not put one extremity into clothing.
What is neglect?
500
What part of brain are you testing when you what the patient extend arm out and try to touch finger to nose in a smooth manner?
What is the Cellebrum?
500
What cranial nerve is responsible for hearing and balance?
What is cranial nerve VIII the acoustic nerve?
500
What scale assesses the functional state of the brain and is divided into three areas: eye opening, verbal responses, and motor response?
What is the glasgow coma scale?
500
What is the major control center of the brain with many vital functions: temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure control, sleep center, pituitary gland regulator, and emotional status?
What is Hypothalamus?
500
What is it called when you have paralysis in all four extremities?