NR 304 Health Assessment CNS,PNS,ANS,CN TEST EXAMS (Q & A) 2023 APPROVED

central nervous system (CNS) correct answers brain, spinal cord peripheral nervous system (PNS) correct answers everything but brain and spinal cord, 12 cranial nerves cerebral cortex correct answers 2 hemispheres, 4 lobes per hemisphere can get approximation or where a stroke happened frontal lobe correct answers personality, behavior, emotions, intellectual function parietal lobe correct answers primary center for sensation occipital lobe correct answers primary visual receptor center (back of head) temporal lobe correct answers auditory reception center, taste, smell Wernicke's area correct answers language comprehension temporal lobe receptive aphasia (hear sound, but it has no meaning) Broca's area correct answers mediates motor speech frontal lobe expressive aphasia (comprehends, but only garbled sounds comes out when try to speak) hypothalamus correct answers appetite, sex drive, temperature, heart rate, BP, sleep, anterior/posterior pituitary gland regulation, coordination of autonomic nervous system (ANS), stress response, emotional status cerebellum correct answers under occipital lobe coordination of voluntary movements, equilibrium, muscle tone (does not initiate movements) brainstem correct answers automatic survival functions cranial nerve (CN) III-XII originate here pons (ascending sensory and descending motor tracts) medulla (continuation of spinal cord in brain; contains all fiber tracts connecting brain and spinal cord) spinal cord correct answers mediates reflexes butterfly shape with posterior/anterior horns (ugh, the slide in the photo is beautiful<3) upper motor neurons correct answers located completely within CNS diseases (cerebrovascular accident, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, etc.) lower motor neurons correct answers final contact with muscles in anterior gray column of spinal cord