Exam 10: The Nervous System Part Ii: the Traffic Control Center

A brain tumor in the frontal lobe might cause significant changes in personality.

Parietal lobes are responsible for vision.

Damage to brain tissue due to mechanical injury, lack of oxygen, or brain hemorrhage causes ________ brain injury.

Brain damage similar to that caused by traumatic brain injury is caused by a lack of oxygen, strokes, or brain ________.

The pons is inferior to the medulla oblongata.

List the twelve cranial nerves.

Some patients with a severe case of ________ must be kept on a ventilator until the paralysis resolves.

A stroke is also known as a(n) ____________ (Do not use abbreviation).

This structure is responsible for the secretion of melatonin ________.

The ________ division of the autonomic nervous system controls the flight-or-fight response.

Heartbeat is controlled in the ____________.

A(n) ____________ is a group of nerve cell bodies outside the CNS.

Hydocephalus is a result of an excess of what fluid?

The pineal body secretes the hormone ____________.

During surgery, general anesthesia inhibits the ____________, causing unconsciousness in the patient.

After a plan for movement has been developed, it leaves the ____________ and connects with neurons in the thalamus.

A brain injury with swelling and bleeding with possible severe hemorrhaging (hematoma) is known as a ________.

Explain why cerebral spinal fluid balance is important in the brain.

The XII cranial nerve, the ____________, is under the tongue.

Paralysis is the inability to control voluntary movement.