concurso #2

The upper motor neuron impairment produces the following change of muscles tone:

• flaccidity

• spasticity

• “cog wheel” rigidity

• myoclonia

The temperature & pin sense loss usually develops with disease in:

• anterior horns of spinal cord

• posterior horns of spinal cord

• lateral horns of spinal cord

• posterior columns  of spinal cord

The ability to walk along a straight line is most often impaired with:

• cerebellar dysfunction

• parietal lobe damage

• temporal lobe damage

• ocular motor disturbances

Hemiplegia, hemianesthesia & hemianopia develop together with disease in the:

• spinal cord

• internal capsule

• thalamus

• brainstem

The presence of ptosis suggests damage to cranial nerve:

• IV

• V

• III

• VII

The presence of dysphagia suggests damage to cranial nerves:

• V-VII

• IX-X

• VII-XI

• III-VI

The presence of dysarthria suggests damage to cranial nerve:

• V

• XI

• XII

• VIII

The patient with apraxia cannot:

• name his fingers

• carry out an imagined act

• draw simple diagrams

• speak fluently