CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM EXAMS
2026 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
Central Nervous System - answerbrain & spinal cord: relays messages, processes info
and analyzes info
Meninges - answerThree layers of connective tissue in which the brain & spinal cord are
wrapped
Pia Mater - answer"soft mother" - 1st layer of the meninges
Arachnoid - answerwebbing- 2nd layer of the meninges
Dura Mater - answer"hard mother"- 3rd layer of the meninges
Cerebrospinal Fluid - answerbathes the brain & spinal cord and acts as a shock
absorber that protects the CNS
Brain - answercephalization, place to which impulses flow & from which impulses
originate, covered by the skull
Cerebrum - answerresponsible for voluntary movement, intelligence, learning and
judgement: four lobes
Frontal Lobe - answeremotional control, self awareness, motivation, judgement,
problem solving, talking, movement (motor control), and planing
Parietal Lobe - answermovement, orientation, recognition, perception of stimuli sensory
input, and sense of touch
Occipital Lobe - answervisual processing
Temporal Lobe - answerperception and recognition of auditory stimuli, memory, and
speech
Corpus Collosum - answerseparates the right and left cerebral hemispheres, facilitates
communication between the hemispheres, largest white matter structure
Brain sides - answerdeals with the opposite side of the body
right- creativity | left- math and analysis
Cerebral Cortex - answerouter surface of gray matter made of densely packed nerve
cell bodies
2026 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
Central Nervous System - answerbrain & spinal cord: relays messages, processes info
and analyzes info
Meninges - answerThree layers of connective tissue in which the brain & spinal cord are
wrapped
Pia Mater - answer"soft mother" - 1st layer of the meninges
Arachnoid - answerwebbing- 2nd layer of the meninges
Dura Mater - answer"hard mother"- 3rd layer of the meninges
Cerebrospinal Fluid - answerbathes the brain & spinal cord and acts as a shock
absorber that protects the CNS
Brain - answercephalization, place to which impulses flow & from which impulses
originate, covered by the skull
Cerebrum - answerresponsible for voluntary movement, intelligence, learning and
judgement: four lobes
Frontal Lobe - answeremotional control, self awareness, motivation, judgement,
problem solving, talking, movement (motor control), and planing
Parietal Lobe - answermovement, orientation, recognition, perception of stimuli sensory
input, and sense of touch
Occipital Lobe - answervisual processing
Temporal Lobe - answerperception and recognition of auditory stimuli, memory, and
speech
Corpus Collosum - answerseparates the right and left cerebral hemispheres, facilitates
communication between the hemispheres, largest white matter structure
Brain sides - answerdeals with the opposite side of the body
right- creativity | left- math and analysis
Cerebral Cortex - answerouter surface of gray matter made of densely packed nerve
cell bodies
