Exam 13: The Brain and Cranial Nerves

The ________ receive visual input from the lateral geniculate bodies.

The medial pathway that controls involuntary movements of head, neck, and arm position in response to sudden visual and auditory stimuli is the ________ tract.

Sensory encoding of the perceived location of a stimulus depends on

What structure is covered by many blood vessels and adheres tightly to the surface of the brain?

A patient develops a tumor of a cranial nerve that leads to difficulty in speaking from a loss of tongue movement. Which cranial nerve is affected?

Each of the following is an ascending tract in the spinal cord, except the

Two large venous sinuses, the sagittal sinuses, lie within a dural fold called the ________.

The medial nuclei of the thalamus

The hemisphere of the brain that performs spatial visualization and analysis is the ________ hemisphere.

All of the following are True of a prickling pain sensation, except that they

Receptors that monitor the position of joints belong to the category called

Jean needs to have a tooth in her mandible filled. Her dentist injects a local anesthetic to block pain afferents in one of her cranial nerves. What cranial nerve does the dentist numb?

The term general senses refers to sensitivity to all of the following, except

The highest levels of information processing occur in the

Bladder fullness is to ________ as blood pH is to ________.

Cortical regions that interpret sensory information or coordinate motor responses are called ________ areas.

Damage to the tectospinal tracts would interfere with the

Sensory information from the primary sensory cortex is monitored by the ________.

Male brains are typically ________ compared to female brains.

A(n) ________ is a printed record of the brain's electrical activity over a period of time.