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Frontal lobe --- correct answer ---personality, mood, executive decision,
motor, speech expressive lang, reasoning, attention, planning, thinking
Temporal lobe functions --- correct answer ---Language comprehension,
visual and spoken lang, memory
parietal lobe function --- correct answer ---sensory perception and
interpretation spatial orientation, recognition, emotion, prosody
occipital --- correct answer ---vision, process information from retinas
afferent --- correct answer ---sensory, towards CNS
efferent --- correct answer ---motor, away from CNS/brain
Wernicke's area --- correct answer ---language comprehension
Broca's area --- correct answer ---Controls language expression - an area of
the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle
movements involved in speech.
Which of the following is the thalamus' auditory center? --- correct answer -
--Medial geniculate body
What is the group of specialized cells called where cranial nerve VIII inputs
into the brainstem? --- correct answer ---CNC (cochlear nuclear complex)
, The vestibular portion of cranial nerve VIII inputs into the brainstem at the
vestibular nuclear complex (VNC), which consists of four nuclei on each side
of the brainstem --- correct answer ---True
Which tract mediates the vestibulocollic reflex? --- correct answer ---Medial
vestibulospinal tracts
Which type of aphasia is characterized by patients being echolalic (i.e.,
repeating what others say)? --- correct answer ---Transcortical sensory
aphasia
Which structure is associated with the condition hyperacusis? --- correct
answer ---Inferior colliculus
The main organ of the vestibular system is the cochlea. --- correct answer --
-False
Tonographic representation refers to the fact that the cochlea's basilar
membrane is arranged by tones and this representation is maintained
throughout the central auditory system. --- correct answer ---true
Julie is a 46-year-old college professor who has experienced tinnitus and a
slow loss of her hearing in her left ear over the past year and a half. Her
neurologist ordered an MRI, which revealed amass on the vestibular branch
of her left cranial nerve VIII. Julie's neurologist counseled her that it would
be best to monitor the growth of the tumor, but that a day might come when
she might need to have it surgically removed.
What condition to you think Julie has? Why do you think this? --- correct
answer ---She has a vestibular schwannoma because the mass on the
vestibular branch of cranial nerve VIII is consistent with this disorder as
well as Julie's symptoms.
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Frontal lobe --- correct answer ---personality, mood, executive decision,
motor, speech expressive lang, reasoning, attention, planning, thinking
Temporal lobe functions --- correct answer ---Language comprehension,
visual and spoken lang, memory
parietal lobe function --- correct answer ---sensory perception and
interpretation spatial orientation, recognition, emotion, prosody
occipital --- correct answer ---vision, process information from retinas
afferent --- correct answer ---sensory, towards CNS
efferent --- correct answer ---motor, away from CNS/brain
Wernicke's area --- correct answer ---language comprehension
Broca's area --- correct answer ---Controls language expression - an area of
the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle
movements involved in speech.
Which of the following is the thalamus' auditory center? --- correct answer -
--Medial geniculate body
What is the group of specialized cells called where cranial nerve VIII inputs
into the brainstem? --- correct answer ---CNC (cochlear nuclear complex)
, The vestibular portion of cranial nerve VIII inputs into the brainstem at the
vestibular nuclear complex (VNC), which consists of four nuclei on each side
of the brainstem --- correct answer ---True
Which tract mediates the vestibulocollic reflex? --- correct answer ---Medial
vestibulospinal tracts
Which type of aphasia is characterized by patients being echolalic (i.e.,
repeating what others say)? --- correct answer ---Transcortical sensory
aphasia
Which structure is associated with the condition hyperacusis? --- correct
answer ---Inferior colliculus
The main organ of the vestibular system is the cochlea. --- correct answer --
-False
Tonographic representation refers to the fact that the cochlea's basilar
membrane is arranged by tones and this representation is maintained
throughout the central auditory system. --- correct answer ---true
Julie is a 46-year-old college professor who has experienced tinnitus and a
slow loss of her hearing in her left ear over the past year and a half. Her
neurologist ordered an MRI, which revealed amass on the vestibular branch
of her left cranial nerve VIII. Julie's neurologist counseled her that it would
be best to monitor the growth of the tumor, but that a day might come when
she might need to have it surgically removed.
What condition to you think Julie has? Why do you think this? --- correct
answer ---She has a vestibular schwannoma because the mass on the
vestibular branch of cranial nerve VIII is consistent with this disorder as
well as Julie's symptoms.
