CNS Disorders practice

What is the mass of specialized capillaries that secretes CSF into a brain ventricle?

• Choroid plexus
• Dural sinus
• Corpus callosum
• Cerebral aqueduct

What are the interconnected cavities that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid?

• CSF channels
• Lobes
• Meninges
• Ventricles

What is the name of the fluid that protects and helps nourish the central nervous system?

• Blinker fluid
• CNS fluid
• Cerebrospinal fluid
• Vital fluid

increased amount of CSF in ventricles of brain that causes swelling of head

• Alzheimer's disease 
• Cerebral Palsy
• Epilepsy
• Hydrocephalus 

inflammation of the linings of the brain and spinal cord •Tests: blood cultures, x-rays, LUMBAR PUNCTURE  •Symptoms: Severe headache, Stiff neck, Nausea/Vomiting  

• meningitis 
• multiple sclerosis 
• neuritis 
• paralysis 

What’s the condition called when a person has no use of their legs?

• Paraplegia
• Quadriplegia
• Transient Paralysis

What’s the condition called when a person has no use of their arms and legs?

• Paraplegia
• Quadriplegia
• Transient Paralysis

medical procedure used to measure the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid

• laminectomy
• cordotomy
• lumbar puncture
• epidural

A young female develeloped episodic unilateral throbing type heaache. Probabale diagnosis is

• Tension Heache

• Migraine

• open angle glaucoma

• Meninigitis

A-34-years old male complaints of throbbing unilateral headache more localized to eye and associated with tearing and runny nose? He has had the headache every day for 2 weeks.

• Migraine

• Temporal artrits

• Acute Glaucoma

• Cluster Headache