SLP Praxis Review Exam Questions And
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NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM (pg. 25-56) -
answer✔NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM-
*confirmed*
Efferent/afferent neurons - answer✔transmit info away from brain (motor)/bring info to brain
(sensory)
Nerve cells endings - answer✔Dendrites - receive signals
Axons - send signal on
Microglia - answer✔Scavengers to remove dead cells and other waste in brain
Autonomic nervous system - answer✔Components:
Sympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system - answer✔Activates fight or flight response
Parasympathetic nervous system - answer✔Returns body to state of relaxation
Pyramidal system vs Extrapyramidal - answer✔P: direct motor activation pathway, voluntary
movement, directly signals nerve cells in spine or brainstem (fast, skilled, conscious movements)
E: maintains posture and tone for voluntary movements, indirectly regulates LMN movement
activity (slow, postural, reflexive movements)
Damage results in involuntary and bizarre movement disorders; indirectly regulates nerve cells in
spine or brainstem
Both are motor pathways. E is called that to distinguish it from the pyramidal system that reaches
target locations by traveling through the 'pyramids' of the medulla.
Extrapyramidal composition - answer✔Subcortical nuclei: red nucleus, substantia nigra,
subthalamus, basal ganglia, and their pathways
Pyramidal system componenets - answer✔Projection fibers from cortex divide into:
Corticobulbar tract
Corticospinal tract
Corticobulbar tract - answer✔Control all voluntary muscles of speech (except respiratory)
Decussate (cross) at brainstem where CN's III-XII transition from UMN to LMN
With the exception of lower muscles of facial expression, all functions of the corticobulbar tract
involve inputs from both sides of the brain.
Corticospinal tract - answer✔Descend from motor cortex through the internal capsule, continue
through midbrain and pons (UMN)
Decussate at the medulla, 80-85%, causing contralateral control
After medulla they are LMN but no longer corticospinal tract
Lower motor neurons - answer✔Motor neurons in the spinal and cranial nerves
Peripheral nervous system
Upper motor neurons - answer✔Motor fibers within the central nervous system
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