Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology EXAM
Questions and Answers
1. Which of the following is most likely to be observed after a stroke of the
motor cortex? correct answer: Weakness and lack of coordination in contralateral hand
2. When a child bumps their head, the parent tells the child to rub it. Or
when arm is rubbed before a needle stick. This is an example of which of
the follow- ing? correct answer: Gate Theory of Pain (changes perception of how things go in and
out)
3. What do you see when a patient is in REM? correct answer: Deep sleep, muscles
are flaccid, "paralysis"
4. What will help with restless leg syndrome? correct answer: Has a genetic
component/family history
5. Findings on someone who has an optic disk that is more pale correct answer:
Decreased blood flow
and pressure from glaucoma
6. Macular degeneration correct answer: Tunnel vision, can't see clearly
7. What might a patient with glaucoma present with? correct answer: Eye pain,
blurry vision, glare, Always
knowing which patient to triage first, Prioritize patient with sudden change in vision
8. In patients who have lose retina and cause visual disturbances, Think
shock first correct answer:
9. Someone who has central vestibular disorders correct answer: Gait will be
attected
10. When people have epilepsy, medications work by correct answer: Blocking
fast sodium channels to block
seizure activity
11. Important for neuro exams to have patients first correct answer: correct
answer: Close their eyes, test their sensation not their perception,
12. What kind of pain do patients feel when there is damage to nerve
fibers and pathways correct answer: Sharp, shooting, intermittent, "shock like" pain
13. Which of the following disorders does not result in an increase in a
neuronal membrane excitability? correct answer: Things that don't cause hyperreflexia
correct answer: lower motor neuron lesions (causes hypore-
flexia)
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, 14. Where do things act that make us get addicted, where does the
transmitter dopamine work? correct answer: Nucleus accumbens
15. A person has a generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). If we do
imaging, where do we see a lot of activity in the brain structure? correct
answer: Amygdala
16. When something in the tissue in the ducts but is not infiltrated,
what is the type of diagnosis? correct answer: Cancer in Situ (CIS)
17. Where would rhabdomyosarcoma come from? correct answer: Skeletal
muscle
18. The biophysics of vascular wall tension is what? correct answer: Law of
Laplace
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Questions and Answers
1. Which of the following is most likely to be observed after a stroke of the
motor cortex? correct answer: Weakness and lack of coordination in contralateral hand
2. When a child bumps their head, the parent tells the child to rub it. Or
when arm is rubbed before a needle stick. This is an example of which of
the follow- ing? correct answer: Gate Theory of Pain (changes perception of how things go in and
out)
3. What do you see when a patient is in REM? correct answer: Deep sleep, muscles
are flaccid, "paralysis"
4. What will help with restless leg syndrome? correct answer: Has a genetic
component/family history
5. Findings on someone who has an optic disk that is more pale correct answer:
Decreased blood flow
and pressure from glaucoma
6. Macular degeneration correct answer: Tunnel vision, can't see clearly
7. What might a patient with glaucoma present with? correct answer: Eye pain,
blurry vision, glare, Always
knowing which patient to triage first, Prioritize patient with sudden change in vision
8. In patients who have lose retina and cause visual disturbances, Think
shock first correct answer:
9. Someone who has central vestibular disorders correct answer: Gait will be
attected
10. When people have epilepsy, medications work by correct answer: Blocking
fast sodium channels to block
seizure activity
11. Important for neuro exams to have patients first correct answer: correct
answer: Close their eyes, test their sensation not their perception,
12. What kind of pain do patients feel when there is damage to nerve
fibers and pathways correct answer: Sharp, shooting, intermittent, "shock like" pain
13. Which of the following disorders does not result in an increase in a
neuronal membrane excitability? correct answer: Things that don't cause hyperreflexia
correct answer: lower motor neuron lesions (causes hypore-
flexia)
1/
5
, 14. Where do things act that make us get addicted, where does the
transmitter dopamine work? correct answer: Nucleus accumbens
15. A person has a generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). If we do
imaging, where do we see a lot of activity in the brain structure? correct
answer: Amygdala
16. When something in the tissue in the ducts but is not infiltrated,
what is the type of diagnosis? correct answer: Cancer in Situ (CIS)
17. Where would rhabdomyosarcoma come from? correct answer: Skeletal
muscle
18. The biophysics of vascular wall tension is what? correct answer: Law of
Laplace
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5
