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Question: Which major section of the neurological exam is most likely to reveal damage to the cerebellum?
Choices:
cranial nerve exam
mental status exam
sensory exam
coordination exam
Question: Which of the following could be elements of cytoarchitecture, as related to Brodmann's microscopic studies of the cerebral cortex?
Choices:
connections to the cerebellum
activation by visual stimuli
number of neurons per square millimeter
number of gyri or sulci
Question: Which type of aphasia is more like hearing a foreign language spoken?
Choices:
receptive aphasia
expressive aphasia
conductive aphasia
Broca's aphasia
Question: Which major section of the neurological exam includes subtests that are sometimes considered a separate set of tests concerned with walking?
Choices:
mental status exam
cranial nerve exam
coordination exam
sensory exam
Question: Memory, emotional, language, and sensorimotor deficits together are most likely the result of what kind of damage?
Choices:
stroke
developmental disorder
whiplash
gunshot wound
Question: Where is language function localized in the majority of people?
Choices:
cerebellum
right cerebral hemisphere
hippocampus
left cerebral hemisphere
Question: What region of the cerebral cortex is associated with understanding language, both from another person and the language a person generates himself or herself?
Choices:
medial temporal lobe
ventromedial prefrontal cortex
superior temporal gyrus
postcentral gyrus
Question: Which of the following could be a multimodal integrative area?
Choices:
primary visual cortex
premotor cortex
hippocampus
Wernicke's area
Question: Which is an example of episodic memory?
Choices:
how to bake a cake
your last birthday party
how old you are
needing to wear an oven mitt to take a cake out of the oven
Question: Without olfactory sensation to complement gustatory stimuli, food will taste bland unless it is seasoned with which substance?
Choices:
salt
thyme
garlic
olive oil
Question: What function would most likely be affected by a restriction of a blood vessel in the cerebral cortex?
Choices:
language
gait
facial expressions
knee-jerk reflex