CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE EXAM
PREPARATION TEST BANK WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● Parietal Lobe
Answer: Processes touch, pain, pressure, temperature, and sensory
information.
●● Temporal Lobe
Answer: Hearing, memory, and language comprehension (Wernicke's
area).
●● Occipital Lobe
Answer: Vision.
●● Cerebellum
Answer: Coordinates balance, posture, and voluntary movement.
●● Brainstem
Answer: Controls breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, and swallowing.
●● Thalamus
, Answer: Sensory relay station.
●● Hypothalamus
Answer: Controls temperature, hunger, thirst, sleep, and pituitary gland.
●● Sympathetic Nervous System
Answer: Fight or Flight: increases heart rate, blood pressure, pupil
dilation, bronchodilation, and decreases digestion.
●● Parasympathetic Nervous System
Answer: Rest and Digest: decreases heart rate, constricts pupils,
increases digestion and salivation.
●● Early Signs of Increased ICP
Answer: Headache, restlessness, confusion, vomiting, sluggish pupils.
●● Late Signs of Increased ICP
Answer: Cushing's triad (hypertension, bradycardia, irregular
respirations), fixed pupils, posturing, coma.
●● Glasgow Coma Scale
Answer: 15 = normal; 13-15 = mild injury; 9-12 = moderate injury; 8 or
less = intubate.
PREPARATION TEST BANK WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● Parietal Lobe
Answer: Processes touch, pain, pressure, temperature, and sensory
information.
●● Temporal Lobe
Answer: Hearing, memory, and language comprehension (Wernicke's
area).
●● Occipital Lobe
Answer: Vision.
●● Cerebellum
Answer: Coordinates balance, posture, and voluntary movement.
●● Brainstem
Answer: Controls breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, and swallowing.
●● Thalamus
, Answer: Sensory relay station.
●● Hypothalamus
Answer: Controls temperature, hunger, thirst, sleep, and pituitary gland.
●● Sympathetic Nervous System
Answer: Fight or Flight: increases heart rate, blood pressure, pupil
dilation, bronchodilation, and decreases digestion.
●● Parasympathetic Nervous System
Answer: Rest and Digest: decreases heart rate, constricts pupils,
increases digestion and salivation.
●● Early Signs of Increased ICP
Answer: Headache, restlessness, confusion, vomiting, sluggish pupils.
●● Late Signs of Increased ICP
Answer: Cushing's triad (hypertension, bradycardia, irregular
respirations), fixed pupils, posturing, coma.
●● Glasgow Coma Scale
Answer: 15 = normal; 13-15 = mild injury; 9-12 = moderate injury; 8 or
less = intubate.
