I'm so nervous
This nervous system is responsible for “fight or flight".
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Damage to this cranial nerve can lead to a diagnosis of Bell's Palsy.
What is Cranial Nerve 7 (VII) - Facial Nerve?
This brain hemisphere is damaged when the result is loss of voluntary motor control of the right side of the body.
What is the left hemisphere?
An Axon's information will travel faster when more of this substance is present.
What is myelin?
Spinal Nerves containing sensory information ascend through this root or side of the spinal cord.
What is the dorsal root?
This nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
Damage to this cranial nerve results in tongue deviation of the tongue, atrophy, and dysphagia.
What is cranial nerve XII or the hypoglossal nerve?
This type of stroke can be effectively treated with tPA.
What is Ischemic?
You would not expect to see one-sided impairments in this common neuromotor condition that is also associated with resting tremors and rigidity.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
Discriminative touch, vibration, pressure, and conscious proprioception are the elements of sensory information carried by this spinal tract.
What is the Dorsal Column?
This part of the central nervous system developed from the prosencephalon.
What is the cerebrum?
Damage to these 2 cranial nerves can result in loss of both the gag and swallowing reflexes.
What are cranial nerves IX and X? Glossopharyngeal & Vagus nerves
Acalculia, aphasia, and lack of sensory and motor function on the right side of the body are symptoms associated with a stroke in this cerebral hemisphere.
What is the left cerebral hemisphere?
This term is used to describe damage to neurons on the opposite side of the brain from where a TBI impact occurs.
What is Contrecoup?
Antigravity extension, posture, and balance on the ipsilateral side are functions associated with this motor tract.
What is the vestibulospinal tract?
Schwann cells provide myelination in this nervous system.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
These 3 cranial nerves are being assessed when a therapist tests extraocular eye movements?
What are the oculomotor cranial nerve, trochlear cranial nerve, and abducens cranial nerves?
A patient had a left cerebral hemisphere stroke. She can understand language that is spoken to her, but when she tries to respond, she cannot form meaningful sentences. This type of aphasia is called:
What is Broca's Aphasia?
This motor neuron is associated with numbness and weakness or hypotonia when injured.
What is a lower motor neuron?
Loss of voluntary motor control on the right side of the body below the level of injury can be associated with this motor tract.
What is the Left Lateral Corticospinal tract?
Multiple Sclerosis is a condition that affects this nervous system.
What is the central nervous system?
This cranial nerve carries sensory information and is tested using a hearing screen and the Romberg test.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve? or cranial nerve VIII
This type of stroke is associated with the rupture of an aneurysm in a blood vessel.
What is a Hemorrhagic stroke?
When damaged, this motor neuron is associated with spasticity in all muscle groups below the site of injury.
What is an upper motor neuron?
This level of the spine has been damaged, if there is no sensation in the lower part of his body, beginning at the nipple line.
What is a thoracic spinal injury?
Cranial nerves are part of this nervous system.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
This cranial nerve carries sensory information to the face and motor information to the masseter muscles of the face.
What is cranial nerve 5 (V) Trigeminal Nerve?
Jalen experienced a stroke that resulted in hemiplegia and loss of sensation of the right lower extremity, urinary incontinence, cognitive deficits, emotional liability, and depression. Which artery was occluded?
What is the left anterior cerebral artery?
Jim has neuron damage and often experiences uncontrolled oscillations of his leg and foot as a result of quick movement. His OT noticed it when Jim flexed his foot for donning shoes. What is the OT observing?
What is clonus?
This condition occurs when the neural tube does not completely fuse, and the spinal cord protrudes through a gap with a visible sac on the spine containing both fluid and nervous tissue.
What is Myelomeningocele?