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NUR 316 Midterm Exam Questions And AccurateAnswers 2024-2025
central nervous system -Answer brain and spinal cord
peripheral nervous system - Answer the sensory and motor neurons that connect the
central nervous system to the rest of the body
sensory neurons (afferent) -Answer neurons that carry incoming information from the
sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord
motor neurons (efferent) -Answer neurons that carry outgoing information from the
brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands
cerebral cortex - Answer outer layer of the cerebrum, function of memory, reasoning,
sensation, voluntary muscle
frontal lobe - Answer personality, behavior, emotions, intellectual function
Broca's area - Answer speech production
parietal lobe - Answer receives sensory input for touch and body position
occipital lobe - Answer visual processing
temporal lobe - Answer A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing, smell,
and tatse
, Wernicke's area - Answer language comprehension
cerebral cortex damage - Answer motor weakness, paralysis, loss of sensation,
impaired ability to understand and process language
basal ganglia - Answer movement, gray matter
Thalamus - Answer relays messages between lower brain centers and cerebral cortex
Hypothalamus - Answer Respiratory center, with basic function control and
coordination
Cerebellum - Answer Balance and coordination
Brainstem - Answer responsible for automatic survival functions, midbrain/pins/medulla
spinal cord - Answer 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? - Answer Left brain controls right side of the body &
right brian controls left side of the body
anterolateral tract - Answer tract that receives pain, pressure, temp info
dorsal columns posterior-Answer These fibers conduct the sensations of position,
vibration, and finely localized touch.
corticospinal tract-Answer voluntary movement, very skilled movement
extrapyramidal system-Answer maintains control of unconscious movements
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