Biomedicine NCCAOM Boards: Exam
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cognitive motor control
memory, sensory awareness, speech, taste, vision - ✔✔cerebrum
coordination and integration of motor skills, balance (ataxia)
motor learning, motor control (muscle contractions and force production), voluntary movements -
✔✔cerebellum
information processing back to cerebrum
regulation of motor functions
sleep and wake states - ✔✔thalamus
control of emotions
blood pressure regulation
thirst
heart rate
sleep cycles (circadian rhythms)
regulation of body temperature
water balance - ✔✔hypothalamus
control of respiratory and heart rates
peripheral blood flow - ✔✔brain stem
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: beginning of esophagus and trachea - ✔✔C6
,VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: highest point of thoracic duct (lymph drainage) - ✔✔C7
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: apex of lungs - ✔✔T1
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: arch of aorta - ✔✔T4
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: inferior angle of scapula - ✔✔T7
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: xiphoid -- sternal angle - ✔✔T9
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: esophageal hiatus in diaphragm - ✔✔T10
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: end of spinal cord, testicular or ovarian artery - ✔✔L2
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: inferior mesenteric artery - ✔✔L3
VERTICAL ANATOMICAL LEVELS: iliac crest, umbilicus - ✔✔L4
conduct impulses -- the "wiring" of the nervous system's information circuits - ✔✔neurons
contains nucleus, cytoplasm, and organelles - ✔✔soma (cell body)
branches from the cell bodies
receive stimuli that initiate nerve signals - ✔✔dendrites
conducts impulses away from cell body - ✔✔axon
, peptide and transmitter of many central neurons (dorsal root ganglia and basal ganglia)
transmits pain - ✔✔Substance P
act like opiates to block pain - ✔✔endorphins, enkephalins
Alzheimer's Disease treatment
a) cholinergic enhancers (aricept - donepezil), tricyclic antidepressants (remeron - mirtazapine), provigil,
NSAIDs, memantine, gingko biloba
b) levodopa, anticholinergics
c) interferon, corticosteroids, plasmapheresis, lioresal - baclofen, tizanidine - zanaflex,
benzodizepines, antidepressants, amantadine
d) carbamazepine, phenytoin, amitriptyline
e) corticosteroids - ✔✔A
Parkinson's disease treatment
a) cholinergic enhancers (aricept - donepezil), tricyclic antidepressants (remeron - mirtazapine), provigil,
NSAIDs, memantine, gingko biloba
b) levodopa, anticholinergics
c) interferon, corticosteroids, plasmapheresis, lioresal - baclofen, tizanidine - zanaflex,
benzodizepines, antidepressants, amantadine
d) carbamazepine, phenytoin, amitriptyline
e) corticosteroids - ✔✔B
Multiple Sclerosis treatment
a) cholinergic enhancers (aricept - donepezil), tricyclic antidepressants (remeron - mirtazapine), provigil,
NSAIDs, memantine, gingko biloba
b) levodopa, anticholinergics
c) interferon, corticosteroids, plasmapheresis, lioresal - baclofen, tizanidine - zanaflex,
benzodizepines, antidepressants, amantadine
d) carbamazepine, phenytoin, amitriptyline
e) corticosteroids - ✔✔C
