NEURO EXAM 1 USAHS QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Apraxia - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅inability to make a motor plan, as a result of brain damage.
Ataxia - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅lack of muscle coordination
Aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere
damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).
1 olfactory - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Making client smell something pleasant
front of brain
2 optic - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅thalamus - test visual acuity (Snellen chart, or # of fingers)
front of brain
3 Oculomotor - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅thalamus - looking up, in and left to right
midbrain
4 Trochlear - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅midbrain - cross eyes into nose
5. Trigeminal - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅pons - - Dull vs light sensation in: Opthalmic (forehead)
Maxillary (Cheek)Mandibular (Jawline)
- Have the patient open and close mouth (feel around temporomandibular joint)
6 Abducens - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅pons- looking laterally (left and right)
, 7 Facial - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅controls most facial expressions
secretion of tears & saliva
taste
pons - Test facial symmetry - Taste on anterior 2/3 of tongue - smile - wrinkle forehead
8 Vestibulocochlear - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅hearing and equilibrium
pons (acoustic) - Whisper test - Rinne Test - Weber Test
9 Glossopharyngeal - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅medulla - Gag reflex- Taste on posterior 1/3 of the
tongue - not gagging is a sign of lesion
10 Vagus - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅medulla - - Say "aah" - Talk to see if uvula deviates to one side
11 Spinal Accessory - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅controls trapezius & sternocleidomastoid
controls swallowing movements
spinal cord - shoulder shrug against resistance
medulla
12 Hypoglossal - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅medulla - stick tongue straight out - will deviate if there is
a lesion
Somatosensory pathways - Posterior column pathways: Proprioception, vibration, fine touch -
CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Primary afferent sensory information is coming in from the dorsal roots
then travels to the ipsilateral white matter columns and ascends all the way to dorsal column nuclei in
the medulla then it will synapse onto a second sensory neuron that crosses over to the other side of
ANSWERS
Apraxia - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅inability to make a motor plan, as a result of brain damage.
Ataxia - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅lack of muscle coordination
Aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere
damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).
1 olfactory - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Making client smell something pleasant
front of brain
2 optic - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅thalamus - test visual acuity (Snellen chart, or # of fingers)
front of brain
3 Oculomotor - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅thalamus - looking up, in and left to right
midbrain
4 Trochlear - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅midbrain - cross eyes into nose
5. Trigeminal - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅pons - - Dull vs light sensation in: Opthalmic (forehead)
Maxillary (Cheek)Mandibular (Jawline)
- Have the patient open and close mouth (feel around temporomandibular joint)
6 Abducens - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅pons- looking laterally (left and right)
, 7 Facial - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅controls most facial expressions
secretion of tears & saliva
taste
pons - Test facial symmetry - Taste on anterior 2/3 of tongue - smile - wrinkle forehead
8 Vestibulocochlear - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅hearing and equilibrium
pons (acoustic) - Whisper test - Rinne Test - Weber Test
9 Glossopharyngeal - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅medulla - Gag reflex- Taste on posterior 1/3 of the
tongue - not gagging is a sign of lesion
10 Vagus - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅medulla - - Say "aah" - Talk to see if uvula deviates to one side
11 Spinal Accessory - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅controls trapezius & sternocleidomastoid
controls swallowing movements
spinal cord - shoulder shrug against resistance
medulla
12 Hypoglossal - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅medulla - stick tongue straight out - will deviate if there is
a lesion
Somatosensory pathways - Posterior column pathways: Proprioception, vibration, fine touch -
CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Primary afferent sensory information is coming in from the dorsal roots
then travels to the ipsilateral white matter columns and ascends all the way to dorsal column nuclei in
the medulla then it will synapse onto a second sensory neuron that crosses over to the other side of
