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Brain and Spine
Question | Answer |
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Cranial Nerves are part of CNS or PNS? | PNS |
What does the Blood Brain Barrier keep out? | Toxins and Pathogens |
What wave is present on the EEG anyone resting awake with their eyes closed? | alpha |
Controls scanning movements of the eye | Frontal eye field Area in the Frontal lobe |
The Limbic System is our "_______ brain" and it contains the _________ | Emotional; Hippocampus (memory) |
The presence of Beta Waves indicates? | Mental Activity |
Integrates sensory information from somatosensory, visual, and auditory assoc. areas | Common integrative assoc. area |
Where is CSF produced and where is it found? | In choroid plexuses by ependymal cells in all four ventricles; subarachnoid space |
Made of tightly wedged ependymal cells, astrocytes, and capillary network | Blood Brain Barrier |
present during emotional stress | theta waves |
Controls complex sequential learned motor activities and provides a memory bank | premotor assoc. area |
CSF | protects against shock, allows for exchange of nutrients, and creates an optimal environment for chemical signals. |
What is the function of Reticular formation for both Ascending and Descending Tracts. | A - maintain consciousness; De - retains muscle tone |
Can determine shape, size, and texture of object without seeing it | somatosensory assoc area in parietal lobe |
trigeminal nerve function | chewing and facial sensation |
common function of vagus and accessory nerves | swallowing |
encircles brain stem and corpus collosum | limbic system |
Recognizes spoken words | Wernicki's association area |
"tongue tied" nerve | hypoglossal nerve |