Neuorobiology

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. What is the name of the tract that carries motor information down the spinal cord and into the body? corticobulbar tract corticospinal tract ventral trigeminal thalamic tract dorsal trigeminal thalamic tract

2. What is Brodmann's area 3, 1, and 2 more commonly known as? frontal lobe of the brain primary motor cortex primary somatosensory cortex association area 14

3. The corticobulbar tract and the corticospinal tract basically have the same course in the brain until they come to what brain structure? thalamus lenticulate nucleus basal ganglia internal capusule

4. Edna had a stroke in the right side of her brain. She can't feel on the right side of her face and she can't move the left side of her body. What is the name of the disorder Edna has now? Alternating hemiplegia Weber's syndrome hypoglossal alternating hemiplegia Ican'tmovemylegorarm syndrome

5. If Tom has a tumor in his brain stem on the right side at the level of the medulla, what are some symptoms he might exhibit? ipsilateral hemiplegia and contralateral loss of sensation contralateral hemiplegia and contralateral loss of sensation quadripelgia none, because the brain stem has the medulla oblongata and it only makes alligators mad

6. Ture or false. Men only listen with one side of their brain? Answer: (One Word)

7. The premotor cortex is made up of the: supplementary cortex premotor cortex and supplemenatary cortex extrapyramidal cortex premotor cortex

8. The giant pyramidal cells in the neocortex are located in layer: 4 5 6 1

9. The vesttibularcochlear nerve and the facial nerve enter the skull thru which hole? lateral acousitc meatus Internal acoustic meatus foramen of Lushka foramen of Magendie

10. Betsy is 85. She has recently begun to forget where she puts her glasses and what she did 5 mintues ago, but can remember her first boyfried when she was only 8 years old. The doctor said that her levels of acetylcholine and serotonin are normal. What is likely Besty's problem (given these choices)? Retrograde amnesia and no Alzheimer's Alzheimer's and a hypothalamic tumor No Alzheimer's and anterograde amnesia No Alzheimer's and a hypthalamic tumor