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NUR 316 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved central nervous system - brain and spinal cord peripheral nervous system - the sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body sensory neurons (afferent) - neurons that carry incoming information ...

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central nervous system - ✔✔brain and spinal cord

peripheral nervous system - ✔✔the sensory and motor neurons that

connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body

sensory neurons (afferent) - ✔✔neurons that carry incoming information

from the sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord

motor neurons (efferent) - ✔✔neurons that carry outgoing information from

the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands

cerebral cortex - ✔✔outer layer of the cerebrum, function of memory,

reasoning, sensation, voluntary muscle

frontal lobe - ✔✔personality, behavior, emotions, intellectual function

Broca's area - ✔✔speech production

parietal lobe - ✔✔receives sensory input for touch and body position

occipital lobe - ✔✔visual processing

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temporal lobe - ✔✔A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing,

smell, and tatse

Wernicke's area - ✔✔language comprehension

damage to cerebral cortex - ✔✔motor weakness, paralysis, loss of

sensation, impaired ability to understand and process language

basal ganglia - ✔✔movement, gray matter

Thalamus - ✔✔relays messages between lower brain centers and cerebral

cortex

Hypothalamus - ✔✔Respiratory center, with basic function control and

coordination

Cerebellum - ✔✔Balance and coordination

Brainstem - ✔✔responsible for automatic survival functions,

midbrain/pins/medulla

spinal cord - ✔✔a major part of the central nervous system which conducts

sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain

How the CNS process sensation? - ✔✔Left brain controls right side of the

body & right brian controls left side of the body

anterolateral tract - ✔✔tract that receives pain, pressure, temp info

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Posterior dorsal columns - ✔✔These fibers conduct the sensations of

position, vibration, and finely localized touch.

corticospinal tract - ✔✔voluntary movement, very skilled movement

extrapyramidal system - ✔✔maintains control of unconscious movements

Cerebellum - ✔✔balance, coordination, movement, equilibrium

upper motor neurons - ✔✔motor neurons in the central nervous system

that control the lower motor neurons in the peripheral nervous system

lower motor neurons - ✔✔final common pathway, providing contact with

muscle

lower motor neurons diseases - ✔✔Lessions, poliomylitis, and amyotrophic

lateral sclerosis

upper motor neurons diseases - ✔✔Cerebrovascu

A accident, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis

Reflexs - ✔✔Defense mechanisms of nervous system, involuntary

deep tendon reflexes, DTR - ✔✔muscle contraction in response to a

stretch caused by striking the muscle tendon with a reflex hammer. test

used to determine if muscles are responding properly

superficial reflexes - ✔✔elicited by gentle cutaneous stimulation

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