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Health Assessment
Ex. 5 (Neuro/Mental)
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Nursing
Undergraduate 2
11/17/2011

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Term
Frontal Lobe
Definition
Areas concerned with personality, emotions, behavior and intellectual function
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Precentral gyrus of the frontal lobe
Definition
Initiates voluntary movement
^^
(cerebellum smoothes this)
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Parietal Lobe
Definition
Primary Center of sensation
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Occipital Lobe
Definition
Optic
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Temporal Lobe
Definition
Primary auditory reception center
Hearing, taste + smell
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Wernicke's area
Definition
Language comprehension
Term
When wernicke's area is damaged what happens?
Definition
Receptive aphasia
Person hears sounds but they have no meaning *like hearing a foreign language
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Broca's Area
Definition
On the frontal lobe
Mediates motor speech
Term
If Broca's area is damaged what happens?
Definition
The person can understand language, and knows what they want to say, but they can only produce a garbled sound.
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Hypothalamus
Definition
Major respiratory center with vital body functions
(appetite, sex drive, heart rate and blood pressure, sleep center, Anterior/posterior pituitary gland regulator and coordinator of ANS activity
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Cerebellum
Definition
concerned with motor coordination of voluntary movements, muscle tone and equilibrium.
smoothes movements pretty much
Term
What is a babinski test?
What is a positive babinski? What is this a sign of?
Definition
Run blunt object along lateral side of foot to the ball of the foot.
Fanning out of the toes after two-two1/2 years -> pyramidal tract disease.
Term
A hyperactive reflex with sustained clonus occurs with
Definition
Upper motor neuron disease
Term
Decrease or los of smell occurs biltaterally with tobacco smoking, allergic rhinitis and cocaine use --
Definition
anosmia
Term
End-point nystagmus, a few beats of horizontal nystagmus at extreme lateral gaze
Definition
Normal
Term
The most anterior part of the brainstem that still have the basic tubular structure of the spinal cord. (merges into thalamus and hypothalamus)
Definition
midbrain
Term
Enlarged area containing ascending and descending motor tracts with two respiratory centers (pneumotaxic and apneustic)
Definition
pons
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Continuationof the spinal cord in the brain that contains ALL ascending and descending fiber tracts
Definition
Term
Coiled structure located under the occipital lobe that is concerned with motor coordination of voluntary movements, equilibriam and muscle tone.
Definition
Term
They help initiate and coordinate movement and control automatic associated movements of the body
Definition
basal ganglia
Term
Motor activity in the newborn is controlled
Definition
spinal cord and the medulla
Term
Persistence of primitive reflexes in an indication of
Definition
CNS dysfunction
Term
A patient who says "this is the worst headache of my life" needs:
Definition
emergency referral to screen for cerebrovascular cause
Term
A sudden loss of strength, temporary loss of consciousness due to lack of cerebral bloodflow
Definition
Syncope
Term
A rotational spinning caused by neurologic disease in the vestibular apparatus in the ear or in the vestibular nuclei in the brainstem
Definition
Vertigo
Term
Dysmetria
Definition
The inability to control the disnace, power and speed of a muscular action.
Term
Ataxia
Definition
uncoordinated or unsteady gait
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A positive romberg occurs with
Definition
cerebellar ataxia, loss of proprioception and loss of cestibular function
Term
Inability to perform knee bend is caused by
Definition
weakness in quads or hip extensors
Term
Sitting on edge of chair or curled in bed, tense muscles, frowning, darting watchful eyes, restless pacing occurs with
Definition
anxiety or hyperthyroidism
Term
Restless fidgety movements or hyperkinetic appearance occurs with
Definition
anxiety
Term
innappropriate dress can occur with
Definition
organic brain syndrome
Term
eccenric dress combination and bizarre makeup ocur with
Definition
schizophrenia or manic syndrome
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