Spinal Flashcards

1
Q

What is the embryological order starting with notochord? **

A

Neural plate, neural groove, neural tube, crest

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2
Q

Resting membrane potential is?

A

Negative

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3
Q

Pacinon =?

A

Vibration, pressure, rapidly adapt

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4
Q

Ruffini = ?

A

Joint position sense, HOT

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5
Q

Meissners = ?

A

Fine touch

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6
Q

Merkels = ?

A

Deep touch

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7
Q

Kraus = ?

A

COLD

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8
Q

What makes up the letiform nucleus?

A

Globus pallidus and putamen

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9
Q

What makes up the corpus striatum?

A

Putamen and caudate

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10
Q

What brain waves are quiet, disappear in sleep?

A

Alpha

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11
Q

What brain wave is intense mental activity, in REM sleep?

A

Beta waves

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12
Q

What brain waves are in deep sleep or coma?

A

Delta

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13
Q

What brain waves are normal in children, abnormal in adults?

A

Theta waves (in 2nd and 3rd stage of sleep, non REM)

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14
Q

What fibers connect up and down in both direction?

A

Projection fibers

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15
Q

What brain fibers connect the right and the left ?

A

Commissural

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16
Q

What brain fibers of the brain connect same hemisphere from frontal to temporal?

A

Association

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17
Q

What cerebellar pathway decussates twice?

A

Ventral spinocerebellar

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18
Q

What is the only cranial nerve that comes of the posterior portion of the brain?

A

CN 4

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19
Q

What CNS pathology is where a cerebellar peduncle comes below for foremen Magnum ?

A

Arnold chiari syndrome

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20
Q

What does the gubernaculum in the male become?

A

Scrotal ligament

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21
Q

What does the gubernaculum become in females ?

A

Suspensory ligament of ovary ( round lig)

22
Q

The resting membrane potential is ______inside and ________outside?

A

Negative inside, positive outside

23
Q

What is the inhibitory neurotransmitter of spine?

A

Glycine

24
Q

What is the inhibitory neurotransmitter of the brain?

A

GABA

25
Q

What is the minimum current for action potential called?

A

Rheobase

26
Q

What specific region of the brain does integration of sensory information?

A

Pulvinar (thalamus)

27
Q

What broadman area deals with vision?

A

17 (occipital lobe)

28
Q

The ________part of the temporal lobe deals deals with hearing?

A

Superior

29
Q

What ________part of the temporal lobe deals with long term memory and smell?

A

Inferior

30
Q

Hippocampal cells are associated with?

A

Memory

31
Q

Parahippocampal cells in the uncal area deal with?

A

Smell

32
Q

What is associated with aphasia, word blindness, can read, see, but not understand?

A

Wernicke-korsakoff

33
Q

Pleasure and pain and the amygdala are associated with

A

Limbic system

34
Q

The caudate secrets what?

A

GABA

35
Q

The great cerebral vein drains into what sinus ?

A

Straight sinus (great is straight)

36
Q

The superior cerebral vain drains into what sinus?

A

Superior sagittal sinus

37
Q

What is the anterior attachment of the falx cerebri ?

A

Crista galli of the eithmoid

38
Q

What is the posterior attachment of the falx cerebri?

A

Tentorium cerebelli

39
Q

Damage to the middle meningeal A results in?

A

Epidural hemorrhage

40
Q

Damage to the venous system results in?

A

Subdural hemorrhage

41
Q

A beri aneurysm results in what?

A

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

42
Q

Damage to PICA (posterior inferior cerebellar artery) results in what?

A

Wallenberg syndrome

43
Q

What supplies to anterior 2/3 of the cord?

A

Anterior spinal artery

44
Q

What supplies the posterior 1/3 of the cord?

A

Posterior spinal artery

45
Q

What spinal track is associated with proximal muscle flexor of the upper and lower extremities.?

A

Rubrospinal track

46
Q

What spinal tract is associated with neck musculature?

A

Tectospinal tract

47
Q

What spinal tract is associated with the light reflex, or sound?

A

Tectospinal (light=superior colliculus) (sound inferior colliculus)

48
Q

What spinal tract is associated with the precentral gyrus of the frontal lobe (giant cells of betz) > ?

A

Corticospinal

49
Q

What spinal tract is associated with flexor of the distal extremities?

A

Lateral corticospinal tract

50
Q

What spinal tract is associated with flexors of the trunk?

A

Ventral corticospinal tract