Neurology

A motor nerve carries the information from the spinal cord that was made sense of by the brain to the muscles and instructs the muscles on what to do.

• True

• False

Paralysis/weakness on the right side of the body indicates:

• Left hemisphere stroke

• Right hemisphere stroke

This disease is also called Lou Gehrig's Disease and is a progressive degeneration of nerve cells that control motor movement.

• Atriovenous Malformations (AVM)

• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

A chronic nervous system disease characterized

by a slowly spreading tremor, muscular

weakness, and rigidity

• epilepsy

• muscular dystophy

• Parkinson's disease

• meningitis

This is a collective term referring to a class of extrapyramidal diseases where the primary deficit is akinesia or hypokinesia

• Chorea

• Parkinson Syndrome

• Resting Tremor

• Cerebellar Ataxia

The cardinal signs of Parkinson's disease will include the following EXCEPT

• bradykinesia

• weakness

• resting tremor

• rigidity

Poverty of movement, reaction time delay and slow execution.

• tremor

• akinesia

• Bradykinesia

• festination

Increased muscle tone (plastic type) without significant loss of muscle power and increase in tendon reflexes.

• tremor

• rigidity

• festination

• bradykinesia

What is at the area marked by the star?

• L2-3 intervertebral foramen

• L2-3 intervertebral disc

• L3-4 intervertebral disc

• L3-4 intervertebral foramen

Meningitis can cause hearing loss that progresses over time

• True

• False