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review the parasympathetic system
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Review the Parasympathetic system
Correct Answer: Conserving Energy, Digesting, Metabolism, and Rest
The sympathetic nervous system primarily serves to protect an individual by doing what?
Correct Answer: Increases blood sugar levels, increases body temperature, and increases blood
pressure
Sympathetic stimulation promotes responses that are concerned with the protection of the
individual.
Review the sympathetic nervous system.
Correct Answer: Mobilizing energy stores:
Glucose to muscles, decreased release of insulin, redirects blood supply from the gut to the
muscles, heart, and lungs.
What characteristic is the most critical index of nervous system dysfunction?
Correct Answer: Level of Consciousness
LOC is the most critical clinical index of nervous system function or dysfunction. An alteration
in consciousness indicates either improvement or deterioration of the person's condition.
Though and goal-oriented behaviors are functions of which area of the brain?
Correct Answer: Prefrontal lobe
The prefrontal area is responsible for goal-oriented behavior such as the ability to concentrate,
short-term memory, and the elaboration of though and inhibition on the limbic (emotional) areas
of the CNS.
Where is the region responsible for the motor aspects?
Correct Answer: Broco area in the frontal lobe
Broca speech area is the ONLY region responsible for the motor aspects of speech
What is the first defense of our bodies?
Correct Answer: skin and mucous membranes
What action is the purpose of the inflammatory process
Correct Answer: To prevent infection of the injured tissue
If the epithelial barrier is damaged, then a highly efficient local and system response
(inflammation) is mobilized to limit the extent of the damage, to protect against infection, and to
initiate the repair of damaged tissues.
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