Exam 29: Neurology and Nervous System Disorders

The olfactory nerve,cranial nerve I,sends information to the brain about the sense of ____________.

____________ is characterized by brief,involuntary episodes of falling asleep during the daytime while engaged in activity.

Which of the following medical words is misspelled?

Epilepsy is diagnosed based on the characteristics of the seizure and the results of an MRI scan of the brain.

The adjective form of coma is ____________.

Tardive dyskinesia is a side effect that includes blinking and tongue movements caused by drugs that are used to treat Parkinson's disease.

Which of these activities is processed in the temporal lobe of the brain?

Which medical word means the same as the layperson's phrase water on the brain?

Which of the following drugs is not used to treat seizures?

Proprioception is related to:

Syncope is also known as:

Select the misspelled word.

A traumatic injury to the neck and spinal cord can result in:

Paralysis on one side of the body is known as ____________

Mental retardation caused by a defect in chromosome 21 is known as ____________ syndrome.

Patients with both expressive and receptive aphasia are said to have global aphasia.

A rhizotomy is performed to cut the:

An arteriovenous malformation is an abnormality in which arteries in the brain connect directly to other arteries,forming a twisted nest of blood vessels.

Nuchal rigidity is an important sign of:

If the brain or spinal cord wants a voluntary skeletal muscle to move,this command is transmitted to the muscle by the ____________ nervous system.