Exam 11: Nervous System II: Divisions of the Nervous System

Stephanie is in a car accident, flung from her vehicle and landing on her back on pavement. At the scene, an emergency medical technician checks her Babinski reflex, in which the great toe extends upward and the smaller toes fan apart. This reflex

A lumbar puncture is

Injury to the visual cortex of the right occipital lobe can cause

The spinal cord has

Brain waves during sleep are ________ waves.

The ________ is the thin meninx attached to the surface of the brain, containing many nerves and blood vessels.

Dopamine is secreted by the ________ and is deficient in ________ disease.

The ________ root of a spinal nerve consists of motor neuron axons.

The primary motor area of the brain is in the

Aphasia is loss of the ability to

Cerebrospinal fluid

Which of the following is a major portion of the diencephalon?

Brain damage to the temporal lobe, where recent memory is processed, can impair long-term memory.

The ________ nerve is a mixed cranial nerve that conducts sensory impulses from and motor impulses to the thoracic and abdominal viscera.

Melinda has Parkinson disease. Her movements are slowing and she has difficulty initiating voluntary muscular actions. The region that is affected in her brain is the

Which of the following are generally adrenergic fibers?

Sympathetic tone is continuous stimulation of smooth muscles in the walls of blood vessels, which results in partial constriction.

If the left corticospinal tract is severed in the neck near the first cervical vertebra,

A person with a degenerative disorder begins to experience problems with inappropriate vasodilation of the blood vessels. The efferent nerves of the ________ division controlling contraction of the blood vessels are being affected.

The arbor vitae is in the cerebrum.