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Neuro Exam 1 USAHS – Questions & Correct Answers

Apraxia ✔️Ans - inability to make a motor plan, as a result of brain
damage.

Ataxia ✔️Ans - lack of muscle coordination

Aphasia ✔️Ans - impairment of language, usually caused by left
hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to
Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).

1 olfactory ✔️Ans - Making client smell something pleasant

front of brain

2 optic ✔️Ans - thalamus - test visual acuity (Snellen chart, or # of
fingers)

front of brain

3 Oculomotor ✔️Ans - thalamus - looking up, in and left to right

midbrain

4 Trochlear ✔️Ans - midbrain - cross eyes into nose

5. Trigeminal ✔️Ans - pons - - Dull vs light sensation in: Opthalmic
(forehead) Maxillary (Cheek)Mandibular (Jawline)
- Have the patient open and close mouth (feel around temporomandibular
joint)

6 Abducens ✔️Ans - pons- looking laterally (left and right)

7 Facial ✔️Ans - controls most facial expressions
secretion of tears & saliva
taste

, pons - Test facial symmetry - Taste on anterior 2/3 of tongue - smile -
wrinkle forehead

8 Vestibulocochlear ✔️Ans - hearing and equilibrium

pons (acoustic) - Whisper test - Rinne Test - Weber Test

9 Glossopharyngeal ✔️Ans - medulla - Gag reflex- Taste on posterior
1/3 of the tongue - not gagging is a sign of lesion

10 Vagus ✔️Ans - medulla - - Say "aah" - Talk to see if uvula deviates to
one side

11 Spinal Accessory ✔️Ans - controls trapezius & sternocleidomastoid
controls swallowing movements

spinal cord - shoulder shrug against resistance

medulla

12 Hypoglossal ✔️Ans - medulla - stick tongue straight out - will
deviate if there is a lesion

Somatosensory pathways - Posterior column pathways: Proprioception,
vibration, fine touch ✔️Ans - Primary afferent sensory information is
coming in from the dorsal roots then travels to the ipsilateral white matter
columns and ascends all the way to dorsal column nuclei in the medulla
then it will synapse onto a second sensory neuron that crosses over to the
other side of the medulla and that axon will continue to ascend now on the
contralateral synapse on the thalamus will then project up to the primary
somatosensory cortex.

Somatosensory pathways- Anterolateral pathways: Pain and Temperature
✔️Ans - Sensory information comes in through dorsal root ganglia to the
spinal cord and crosses over to the other side of the spinal cord, and go up
to the thalamus and then go to the primary sensory cortex thalamus (relay
station).

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