Health Assessment Neurologic System Study Guide With Complete Solution!!

HEALTH ASSESSMENT NEUROLOGIC SYSTEM STUDY GUIDE
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION!!
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Answers: Brain: cerebrum, diencephalon, brain stem, cerebellum
Spinal cord: contains neural pathways
Meninges
Meninges


Answers: three protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord
Peripheral Nervous System


Answers: 12 pairs of cranial nerves
31 pairs of spinal nerves
sympathetic nervous system (SNS)


Answers: Fight or flight
Parasympathetic nervous system (PNS)


Answers: rest and digest
Frontal lobe


Answers: cerebrum
voluntary, skeletal actions (L side of lobe controls R side of body)
Talking and writing, emotions, intellect, reasoning, judgement, and behavior
Contains Broca area for speech
Parietal lobe

, Answers: Interprets tactile sensations; touch, pain, temperature, shapes, and two
point discrimination
Temporal lobe


Answers: Receives and interprets impulses from the ear. Contains Weirnikes area,
which is responsible for interpreting auditory stimuli
Occipital lobe


Answers: reading with understanding, primary visual receptor center
Diencephalon


Answers: thalamus and hypothalamus
which control sleep, temperature
Brain stem


Answers: Connection to spinal cord. Filters information flow between peripheral
nervous system and the rest of the brain.
Mostly nerve fibers
Midbrain


Answers: Relay center for ear/eye reflexes, relays impulses to higher cerebral
centers and lower pons, medulla, cerebellum and spinal cord
Pons


Answers: Links cerebellum to cerebrum and midbrain to medulla
Responsible for reflex actions