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| a colorless, odorless fluid containing glucose, electrolytes, oxygen, water, carbon dioxide, protein, and leukocytes. It circulates around the brain and spinal cord to provide cushion, maintain normal intracranial pressure, provide nutrition, and remove metabolic wastes |
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| where does higher thinking occur? |
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| regulates body temp, hunger, thirst, forms autonomic nervous system responses, and stores and secretes hormones from pituitary gland |
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| functions of the diencephalon "midbrain" |
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| creates smooth, coordinated voluntary movement by balancing the production of acetylcholine and dopamine |
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| functions of the basal ganglia |
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| contains reflex centers for controlling involuntary functions such as breathing, sneezing, swallowing, coughing, vomiting, and vasoconstriction |
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| functions of the medulla oblongata |
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| carries impulses from the frontal lobe to muscles for voluntary movement |
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| ascending "sensory" tract |
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| carries sensory information from the body through the thalamus to the parietal lobe |
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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| fight or flight response carried out by which system |
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| "breed and feed" or "rest and digest" carried about by which system |
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| On old olympic's towering top a fin and german viewed some hops |
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| pnuemonic for cranial nerves |
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| some say marry money but my brother says bad business marries money |
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| pneumonic for types of cranial nerves |
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| Nerve for smell reception and interpretation |
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| nerve that does visual acuity and visual fields |
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| nerve that raises eyelids, pupillary constriction, changes lens shape, and does most extraocular movements |
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| nerve that does downward, inward eye movement |
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| nerve that does jaw opening and clenching, chewing, and mastication |
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| nerve that does lateral eye movement |
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| nerve that does movement of facial expression muscles except jaw, secretes saliva and tears |
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| nerve that does hearing and equilibrium |
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| nerve that does voluntary muscles for swallowing and phonation, secretion of salivary glands |
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| the term for defective or absent language function |
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| if the client is able to move around the environment and see the chair to sit down this indicates function of which nerve? |
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| CN 3(oculomotor nerve), CN 4 (trochlear nerve), CN 6 (abducens nerve) |
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| If the client's eyes move equally from side to side, up and down, and obliquely, this indicates function of which 3 nerves? |
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| CN 3(oculomotor nerve), CN 4(trochlear nerve), CN 6(abducens nerve) |
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| if the eyes move equally from side to side, up and down, and obliquely, this indicates function of which 3 nerves? |
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| if the eyes blink, this indicates function of the ophthalmic branch of which nerve? |
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| if the client's face is symmetric when he or she talks, this indicates function of which nerve? |
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| if the client can hear you this indicates function of which nerve? |
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| CN 9(glossopharyngeal nerve) and CN 10(vagus nerve) |
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| if you observe clients swallowing their saliva, this indicates function of which 2 nerves? |
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| CN 11(spinal accessory nerve) |
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| if the clients shrug their shoulders or turn their head during the interview this indicates function of which nerve? |
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| observing equilibrium is a test of which nerve? |
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| A localized uncontrollable twitching of a single muscle group innervated by a single motor nerve fiber that may be observed or palpated |
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| A lack of voluntary movement that is spastic or flaccid |
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| the involuntary contraction of muscles which occurs with upper motor neuron damage |
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| the lack of muscle tone and deep tendon reflexes that occurs after a lower motor neuron damage |
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| loss of or impaired sense of smell |
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| Test for balance by having client stand with feet together, arms resting at sides, eyes open, and then eyes closed |
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| used to test peripheral sensation of clients with peripheral neuropathy as may occur with diabetes mellitus |
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| by grasping the client's finger or toe and moving its position 1cm up or down and the client should be able to tell you how the position has changed |
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| How do you test kinesthetic sensation? |
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| Ask client to close his or her eyes. Place a small familiar object in the client's hand and ask them to identify it |
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| How do you test stereognosis? |
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| grade for no response to deep tendon reflex |
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| grade for sluggish or diminished deep tendon reflex |
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| grade for active or expected response in deep tendon reflex |
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| grade for slightly hyperactive, more brisk than normal; not necessarily pathologic deep tendon reflex |
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| grade for brisk, hyperactive with intermittent clonus associated with disease |
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| dorsiflexion of the great toe with fanning of the other toes |
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| tested by flexing one of the client's legs at the hip and knee, then extending the knee |
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| tested with the client supine, the nurse flexes the client's neck |
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| a progressive demyelination of nerve fibers of the brain and spinal cord, an autoimmunine disorder initiated by a virus that attacks the myelin at various sites of the CNS |
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| inflammation of the meninges that surround the brain and spinal cord. It may result from invasion of bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, or other toxins |
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| inflammation of the brain tissue and meninges. Caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites |
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| develops slowly as the brain's dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra of the basal ganglia degenerate. Characterized by resting termor, bradykinesia, and rigidity. |
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| when cerebral blood vessels become occluded by a thrombus or embolus or when intracranial hemorrhage occurs, the brain tissues become ischemic, resulting in what? |
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| hypertension or a cerebral aneurysm |
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| Hemorrhage can be caused by what? |
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| client's memory begins to fail, such as forgetting names and misplacing items |
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| characterics of the 1st stage of alzheimers |
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| client experiences progressive memory loss and has difficult with ADLs |
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| characteristics of the 2nd stage of Alzheimers |
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| client requires total care and is unable to communicate |
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| characteristics of final stage of alzheimers |
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| an acute unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve. Clients report a history of pain behind the ear or on teh face a few hours or days before the onset of paralysis. |
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| this neuromuscular disease is characterized by weakness of voluntary muscles that improves with rest and administration of anticholinesterase drugs. |
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| acute syndrome that is characterized by widespread demylenization of nerves of the peripheral nervous system. Affects the motor component of peripheral nerves and is believed to be caused by a cell-mediated autoimmune response to a viral infection |
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| not being able to identify an object placed in your hand indicates a tumor in which lobe? |
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| a tumor within the medulla oblongata would produce which abnormal finding? |
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| hold the client's relaxed arm, with elbow flexed at a 90 degree angle, in one hand. Strike the appropriate tendon just above the elbow with either end of the reflex hammer |
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| how do you test the triceps reflex? |
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| have the client walk on the heels and then on the toes to assess for balance |
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| what technique do you use to test the cerebellum? |
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