Clinical Neuroscience: Unit 11 Questions And
Answers
What is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter of the basal
ganglia pathways? -
correct answer ✅Glutamate
Wast is the primary inhibitor of the basal ganglia pathways? -
correct answer ✅GABA
Does the indirect pathway facilitate or inhibit movement? -
correct answer ✅inhibit movement (hypokinetic)
Does the Direct pathway facilitate or inhibit movement? -
correct answer ✅facilitate movement (hyperkinetic)
What are the 3 main functions of the cerebellum? -
correct answer ✅1. synergy of movement
2. Maintenance of upright posture
3 Maintenance of tone
What are the 3 zones of the cerebellum and what part of the body
are each zone responsible for? -
correct answer ✅1. Lateral- limbs
, Clinical Neuroscience: Unit 11 Questions And
Answers
2. Intermediate- limbs
3. Vermis and flocculonodular lobe- trunk
What are the deep cerebellar nuclei? -
correct answer ✅1. Dentate (lateral)
2. Emboliform (intermediate)
3. Globase (intermediate)
4. Fastigial (vermis)
What nuclei is in the brainstem? -
correct answer ✅Vestibular
What do deep cerebellar nuclei do? -
correct answer ✅help minimize errors during voluntary motor
movement, output relay stations
What are mossy fibers? -
correct answer ✅Fibers in cerebellum that weave in purkinje
fibers, turning into parallel fibers, and go deep to cerebellar nuclei,
input fibers
Answers
What is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter of the basal
ganglia pathways? -
correct answer ✅Glutamate
Wast is the primary inhibitor of the basal ganglia pathways? -
correct answer ✅GABA
Does the indirect pathway facilitate or inhibit movement? -
correct answer ✅inhibit movement (hypokinetic)
Does the Direct pathway facilitate or inhibit movement? -
correct answer ✅facilitate movement (hyperkinetic)
What are the 3 main functions of the cerebellum? -
correct answer ✅1. synergy of movement
2. Maintenance of upright posture
3 Maintenance of tone
What are the 3 zones of the cerebellum and what part of the body
are each zone responsible for? -
correct answer ✅1. Lateral- limbs
, Clinical Neuroscience: Unit 11 Questions And
Answers
2. Intermediate- limbs
3. Vermis and flocculonodular lobe- trunk
What are the deep cerebellar nuclei? -
correct answer ✅1. Dentate (lateral)
2. Emboliform (intermediate)
3. Globase (intermediate)
4. Fastigial (vermis)
What nuclei is in the brainstem? -
correct answer ✅Vestibular
What do deep cerebellar nuclei do? -
correct answer ✅help minimize errors during voluntary motor
movement, output relay stations
What are mossy fibers? -
correct answer ✅Fibers in cerebellum that weave in purkinje
fibers, turning into parallel fibers, and go deep to cerebellar nuclei,
input fibers
