SCRN EXAM SCRIPT UPDATED COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS EXPERT
REVIEWED
●● Perfusion
Answer: What oxygen delivers to the brain.
●● Above the necklace-Anterior Circulation=
Answer: Unilateral deficits
●● Below the necklace-Posterior circulation=
Answer: Bilateral deficits
●● Circle of Willis-Collateral circulation=
Answer: Aneurysm
●● Cerebrum
Answer: largest part of the brain
●● Cerebrum: Frontal Lobe
Answer: Motor function, personality, Brocca speech
,●● Brocca's aphasia-frontal lobe
Answer: problem with the production and grammar speech syntax,
people know what they want to say but they cant produce the words.
●● temporal lobe
Answer: Seizure, Wernicke speech, hearing
●● Wernicke's aphasia (receptive aphasia)-temporal lobe
Answer: impaired auditory reception; speech may be fluent but is often
meaningless or nonsensical
●● parietal lobe
Answer: sensory input for touch and body position-neglect
-teach patient to scan the room
●● occipital lobe
Answer: vision
●● basal ganglia
Answer: Hypertensive bleed
●● Thalamus
,Answer: sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem;
-Patient waxing and waning
-Patient asleep/awake
-Thalamic pain syndrome
●● thalamic pain syndrome
Answer: a condition caused by damage to the thalamus resulting in
burning or tingling sensations and possibly hypersensitivity to things
that would not normally be painful such as light touch or temperature
change
●● Cerebellum
Answer: Balance and coordination
●● Left (Dominant) Hemisphere Stroke
Answer: -Left gaze preference (looks toward stroke area)
-Right hononomous hemianopia
-Right hemiparesis
-Right hemisensory loss
-Aphasia
●● Right (Nondominant) Hemisphere Stroke
Answer: -Right gaze preference
, -Left hononomous hemianopia
-Left hemiparesis, plegia
-Left hemisensory loss
*Neglect-left
*Agnosia (failure to recognize objects)
●● Posterior circulating stroke syndromes=
Answer: Wallenburg (Medulla)
Horner's Syndrome
●● Wallenberg syndrome
Answer: Nystagmus, Vertigo
●● Horner's syndrome
Answer: ipsilateral ptosis
miosis
anhidrosis
●● Ipsilateral
Answer: on the same side of the body
●● Contralateral
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS EXPERT
REVIEWED
●● Perfusion
Answer: What oxygen delivers to the brain.
●● Above the necklace-Anterior Circulation=
Answer: Unilateral deficits
●● Below the necklace-Posterior circulation=
Answer: Bilateral deficits
●● Circle of Willis-Collateral circulation=
Answer: Aneurysm
●● Cerebrum
Answer: largest part of the brain
●● Cerebrum: Frontal Lobe
Answer: Motor function, personality, Brocca speech
,●● Brocca's aphasia-frontal lobe
Answer: problem with the production and grammar speech syntax,
people know what they want to say but they cant produce the words.
●● temporal lobe
Answer: Seizure, Wernicke speech, hearing
●● Wernicke's aphasia (receptive aphasia)-temporal lobe
Answer: impaired auditory reception; speech may be fluent but is often
meaningless or nonsensical
●● parietal lobe
Answer: sensory input for touch and body position-neglect
-teach patient to scan the room
●● occipital lobe
Answer: vision
●● basal ganglia
Answer: Hypertensive bleed
●● Thalamus
,Answer: sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem;
-Patient waxing and waning
-Patient asleep/awake
-Thalamic pain syndrome
●● thalamic pain syndrome
Answer: a condition caused by damage to the thalamus resulting in
burning or tingling sensations and possibly hypersensitivity to things
that would not normally be painful such as light touch or temperature
change
●● Cerebellum
Answer: Balance and coordination
●● Left (Dominant) Hemisphere Stroke
Answer: -Left gaze preference (looks toward stroke area)
-Right hononomous hemianopia
-Right hemiparesis
-Right hemisensory loss
-Aphasia
●● Right (Nondominant) Hemisphere Stroke
Answer: -Right gaze preference
, -Left hononomous hemianopia
-Left hemiparesis, plegia
-Left hemisensory loss
*Neglect-left
*Agnosia (failure to recognize objects)
●● Posterior circulating stroke syndromes=
Answer: Wallenburg (Medulla)
Horner's Syndrome
●● Wallenberg syndrome
Answer: Nystagmus, Vertigo
●● Horner's syndrome
Answer: ipsilateral ptosis
miosis
anhidrosis
●● Ipsilateral
Answer: on the same side of the body
●● Contralateral
