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ADV NUR PR NSG5003 S0week 9 Advanced Patho Neuro ch17-20 1. Cognitive operations cannot occur without the effective functioning of the brains 2. Which intracerebral disease process is capable of ... producing a diffuse dysfunction 3. What is the most common infratentorial brain disease process that results in destruction of the reticulating activation system 4. What stimulus causes post hyperventilation apnea 5. Post hyperventilation apnea ceases and rhythmic breathing is resumed when levels of arterial 6. Cheyne strokes respirations are described as 7. Vomiting is associated with CNS injuries that compress which of the brains anatomic locations 8. Which midbrain dysfunction causes pupils to be pinpoint size and fixed position 9. What characteristic is a medical criterion of brain death 10. A clinical manifestation caused by damage to the lower pons includes an abnormal 11. Which person is the greateast risk for developing delirium 12. A sudden explosive, disorderly discharge of cerebral neurons is termed 13. A complex partial seizure is described as 14. Status epileptics is considered a medical emergency because of the 15. The most critical aspect in correctly diagnosing a seizure disorder and establishing its cause is 16. What type of seizure starts in the fingers and progressively spreads up the arms and extends to the legs 17. What area of the brain mediates the executive attention functions 18. What term describes the loss of comprehension or productions of language 19. With receptive dysphagia, the individual is able to 20. What is the normal ICP 21. Cerebral edema is an increase in the fluid content of the brains 22. What type of cerebral edema occurs when permeability of the capillary endothelium increases after injury to the vascular structure 23. A communicating hydrocephalus is caused by an impairment of 24. Which edema is most often observed with non communicating hydrocephalus 25. Which dyskinesia involves involuntary movements of the face, trunk, and extremities 26. Anti psychotic drugs cause tardive dyskinesia by mimicking the effects of increased 27. The existence of regular, deep, and rapid respirations after a severe closed head injury is indicative of neurological injury to the 28. What type of posturing exists when a person with severe closed head injury has all 4 extremities in rigid extension with forearms in hyperpronation and the legs in plantar extension 29. Since his cerebrovascular accident, a man has been denying this left hemiplegia what term is used to describe this finding? 30. After a cerebrovascular accident, a man is unable to either feel or identify a comb with his eyes closed. This is an example of 31. Most dysphagias are associated with cerebrovascular accidents involving which artery 32. Tactile agnosia is relating to injury of which area of the brain 33. Neurofibrillary tangles characterize which neuralgic disorder 34. The body compensates for a rise in intracranial pressure by first displacing the 35. Stage 1 intracranial hypertension is caused by the 36. Dilated and sluggish pupils, widening pulse pressure, and bradycardia are clinical findings evident of which stage of intracranial hypertension 37. Dilation of the ipsilateral pupil following an uncal herniation is the result of pressure on which cranial nerve 38. Which characteristic is the most critical index of nervous system dysfunction 39. Diagnostic criteria for a persistent vegetative state include 40. Uncal herniation occurs when 41. Which assessment finding marks the end of spinal shock 42. Characteristics of primary motor neuron atrophy include 43. The weakness resulting from the segmental paresis and paralysis characteristic of anterior horn cell injury is difficult to recognize because 44. Parkinson disease is a degenerative disorder of the brains 45. Clinical manifestations of Parkinson disease are caused by a dysfunction in which of the brains neurotransmitters 46. Tremors at rest, rigidity, akinesia, and postural abnormalities are a result of atrophy of neurons in the brains 47. Dementia is commonly characterized by the deterioration in which abilities 48. The clinical manifestations of Parkinson disease includes 49. In Parkinson disease the basal ganglia influence the hypothalamic function to produce which clinical manifestations 50. Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal system abnormalities exist in a large percentage of individual with 51. Alteration in which part of the brain are lined to hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorders associate with schizophrenia 52. A criterion for a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder is a period of excessive worrying that lasts for at least how many months - 6 53. Which neurotransmitter is inhibited in generalized anxiety disorder 54. Significant numbers of individuals with depression have problems related to 55. Hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorders occur with alterations to which part of the brain 56. A notable complication of panic disorder is 57. what is the primary information and communication cell of the nervous system 58. what are the 3 parts of the neuron 59. what are nodes of ranviers 60. what is saltatory conduction 61. what is neuroglia 62. what structure is a part of the central CNS 63. Which of the following is an insulating substance for the neuron 64. Which neuron transmits impulses from neuron to neuron 65. Which term describes successive, rapid impulses received from a single neuron on the same synapse? 66. Which of the following is a component of the midbrain 67. Which parts of the brain contains all cell bodies and dendrites of the neurons 68. Which statement is true regarding brocas area 69. Which statement is true regarding the cerebellum 70. Which of the following is involved in pain transmission 71. Which statement is true regarding subdural hematoma 72. Which of the following is an arterial bleed from the blood vessels that lie within the grooves of the skull 73. Which statement is true regarding epinephrine 74. Vomiting is a result of a central nervous system injury caused by which of the following 75. Which criterion is not used when determining brain death 76. A woman sustained a traumatic brain injury. She is able to follow simple commands and can manipulate objects. Which term describes this state 77. What is the complete awareness of self or the surrounding environment and complete loss of cognitive function 78. What syndrome describes an individual who has the content of thought and the level of arousal intact, however the efferent pathways are disrupted which means the individual cannot communicate through speech or body movement 79. What is it called when a person is in a state of unarousable neurobehavioral unresponsiveness 80. A person experiences a unilateral focal seizure and maintains consciousness. Which term is appropriate to describe this type of seizure 81. in what type of seizures is consciousness almost always impaired or lost 82. when partial seizures become generalized, involving the neurons of other hemispheres, the appropriate term is 83. what is the experience of a second or third seizure and often subsequent seizures before the person fully regains consciousness 84. a person experiencing difficulty in recognizing a pattern cannot recognize the form and nature of objects. Which term describes this condition 85. what is the complete loss of the comprehension or production of language 86. what is the impairment of comprehension of production of language 87. what is a disease of dementia 88. an individual having difficulty concentrating, is restless, and irritable and briefly confused. These changes have developed over 2-3 days. Which of the following describes this condition 89. what is a more chronic problem during which progressive failure of many cerebral functions occurs - 90. an individual sustains a cerebral vascular accident that results in left sides paralysis ,which of the following describes this condition 91. what is the paralysis of either upper or lower extremities as a result of cerebral hemisphere injuries 92. which of the following are basic neural systems that are essential for the cognitive sphere 93. which of the following are categories of neurologic function that are classified as critical for evaluation 94. An individual arrives in the emergency department in a coma with a possible drug overdose. Which drugs would cause the pupils to be dilated and fixed ) 95. A person is in a status epilepticus. What are the greatest concerns when treating this individual - Aspiration 96. Which of the following are characteristics of alzheimers disease 97. Which neuro transmitter system is severely reduced in alzheimers disease 98. What are the two characteristic pathophysiological lesions found in the brain in alzheimers disease 99. Where are amyloid plaques located and what do they contain 100. What are neurofibrillary tangles? Where are they located? Why are they important 101. Which brain functions typically are lost first in alzheimers 102. is brain cell loss in alzheimers disease confined to a specific area of the brain 103. what happens to the size of the brain in alzheimers disease 104. which statement is true regarding traumatic brain injury 105. age and the admission of the Glasgow comma scale are important diagnostic factors in TBI. Which GCS score describes a severe TBI 106. An older adult who abuses alcohol has fallen and is diagnosed with a hematoma that is located on the top of the brain. Which type of hematoma fits this description 107. An individual has symptoms of confusion and retrograde amnesia after sustaining a blunt force injury to the skull as a result of being hit with a baseball. The symptoms confirm the diagnosis of which grade of concussion 108. What type of concussion is consistent with confusion, disorientation, and momentary amnesia 109. What concussion has symptoms of momentary confusion and retrograde amnesia that develops after 5-10 min 110. What concussion exhibits symptoms of confusion and retrograde amnesia from the time of the impact 111. A person experiences a vertebral fracture in which the c1 vertebra is fractured into several fragments. This type of fracture can be described as which of the following 112. Which statement is true regarding spinal shock 113. Which statement is true regarding the epidemiologic effects of an acute 114. A 23 year old reports bilateral pain with a sensation of a tight band around the head. Which type of headache fits this description 115. Which primary tumor occurs most commonly 116. Which edema is most often observed with non communicating hydrocephalus 117. Which dyskinesia involves involuntary movements of the face, trunk, and extremities 118. Antipsychotic drugs cause tardive dyskinesia by mimicking the effects of increased 119. The existence of regular deep and rapid respirations after a severe closed head injury is indicative of neurologic injury to the 120. A 23 year old patient is hit in the temporal portion of his skull during an altercation. Although he initially loses consciousness, he soon awakens and is conversant. Three hours later he is experiencing vomiting, drowsiness, and confusion. These symptoms are most likely related wo which type of brain injury 121. Alzheimer disease 122. Autonomic hyperreflexia is characterized by all of the following except 123. A basic neural system to cognitive function would include - Affective or emotive systems 124. A cause of cerebral aneurysm includes - Cocaine abuse 125. Cerebral death 126. Dystonia is 127. Injury of the cervical cord may be life threatening because of 128. [Show More]

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