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Physio Exam 5 Practice Questions and Answers
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What structure is responsible for coordinating muscle activity, smooth progression of movement, and
comparing actual with intended movements?
- Basal Ganglia
- Cerebellum
- Cerebrum
- Thalamus - ✔✔Cerebellum
What is the role of the Vermis? (what areas are responsible for the other answers)
- Control motion of distal limbs (intermediate zone)
- Coordinate axial movements
- Control sequencing of movements of muscles (lateral zone)
- timing and coordination of movements (lateral zone)
- Planning movements (lateral zone) - ✔✔Coordinate axial movements
Where does the vestibulocerebellar tract arise from and terminate?
- Vestibular nuclei, posterior lobe and dentate nucleus
- Cochlear nuclei, vermis and dentate nucleus
- Vestibular nuclei, floculonodular lobe and fastigial nucleus
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- Fastigial nuclei, floculonodular lobe and inferior olives - ✔✔Vestibular nuclei, floculonodular lobe and
fastigial nucleus
Which lobe does the middle cerebellar peduncle primarily project to?
- Posterior Lobe
- Anterior Lobe
- Floculonodular Lobe
- Vermis - ✔✔Posterior Lobe
Which Peduncle does the ventral spinocerebellar tract travel through? Dorsal spinocerebellar
tract?
- Superior, Middle
- Middle, Inferior
- Inferior, Middle
- Superior, Inferior - ✔✔Superior, Inferior
Where does the posterior spinocerebellar tract arise from?
- Clark's Nucleus
- Kent's Nucleus
- Nucleus cuneatus
- Nucleus ambiguous - ✔✔Clark's Nucleus
Do the dorsal and ventral spinocerebellar tracts arise from the brain or the periphery?
- Brain
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- Periphery - ✔✔Periphery
Which pathway transmits information from muscle spindles and golgi tendons in the Lower
Extremity?
- Dorsal Spinocerebellar Tract
- Ventral Spinocerebellar Tract
- Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscus
- Spinothalamic Tract - ✔✔Dorsal Spinocerebellar Tract
Which pathway transmits an efference copy (signals that have arrived at the spinal cord) of
anterior horn motor drive?
- Dorsal Spinocerebellar Tract
- Ventral Spinocerebellar Tract
- Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscus
- Spinothalamic Tract - ✔✔Ventral Spinocerebellar Tract
Which of the following are Deep Cerebellar Nuclei?
- Dentate
- Interposed
- Fastigial
- Olivary
- Vestibular
- Solitary - ✔✔Dentate
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Physio Exam 5 Practice Questions and Answers
100% Pass
What structure is responsible for coordinating muscle activity, smooth progression of movement, and
comparing actual with intended movements?
- Basal Ganglia
- Cerebellum
- Cerebrum
- Thalamus - ✔✔Cerebellum
What is the role of the Vermis? (what areas are responsible for the other answers)
- Control motion of distal limbs (intermediate zone)
- Coordinate axial movements
- Control sequencing of movements of muscles (lateral zone)
- timing and coordination of movements (lateral zone)
- Planning movements (lateral zone) - ✔✔Coordinate axial movements
Where does the vestibulocerebellar tract arise from and terminate?
- Vestibular nuclei, posterior lobe and dentate nucleus
- Cochlear nuclei, vermis and dentate nucleus
- Vestibular nuclei, floculonodular lobe and fastigial nucleus
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- Fastigial nuclei, floculonodular lobe and inferior olives - ✔✔Vestibular nuclei, floculonodular lobe and
fastigial nucleus
Which lobe does the middle cerebellar peduncle primarily project to?
- Posterior Lobe
- Anterior Lobe
- Floculonodular Lobe
- Vermis - ✔✔Posterior Lobe
Which Peduncle does the ventral spinocerebellar tract travel through? Dorsal spinocerebellar
tract?
- Superior, Middle
- Middle, Inferior
- Inferior, Middle
- Superior, Inferior - ✔✔Superior, Inferior
Where does the posterior spinocerebellar tract arise from?
- Clark's Nucleus
- Kent's Nucleus
- Nucleus cuneatus
- Nucleus ambiguous - ✔✔Clark's Nucleus
Do the dorsal and ventral spinocerebellar tracts arise from the brain or the periphery?
- Brain
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- Periphery - ✔✔Periphery
Which pathway transmits information from muscle spindles and golgi tendons in the Lower
Extremity?
- Dorsal Spinocerebellar Tract
- Ventral Spinocerebellar Tract
- Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscus
- Spinothalamic Tract - ✔✔Dorsal Spinocerebellar Tract
Which pathway transmits an efference copy (signals that have arrived at the spinal cord) of
anterior horn motor drive?
- Dorsal Spinocerebellar Tract
- Ventral Spinocerebellar Tract
- Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscus
- Spinothalamic Tract - ✔✔Ventral Spinocerebellar Tract
Which of the following are Deep Cerebellar Nuclei?
- Dentate
- Interposed
- Fastigial
- Olivary
- Vestibular
- Solitary - ✔✔Dentate
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