NEUROLOGICAL COMPLETED SHADOW
HEALTH EXAMPREP 2026 TEST BANK AND
PRACTICE SOLUTION
⩥ What is the CNS comprised of? Answer: the brain and spinal cord
⩥ What is the peripheral nervous system? Answer: all the nerve fibers
(outside of the brain and spinal cord) including 12 pairs of cranial
nerves, 31 pairs of spinal nerves and all of their branches
⩥ What does the thalamus do? Answer: relays information for the
cerebral cortex
⩥ What does the brain stem do? Answer: controls breathing, heart rate,
function
⩥ The nurse observes that a patient's gait is unsteady and assesses a
positive Romberg sign. Which area of the brain is most likely affected?
A. Hypothalamus
B. Medulla oblongata
C. Cerebellum
D. Left hemisphere. Answer: C. Cerebellum
,⩥ What is the cerebral cortex involved in? Answer: thoughts, memory,
reasoning, sensation and voluntary movement
⩥ What are the four lobes of the cerebrum? Answer: frontal, parietal,
occipital and temporal
⩥ Where is Wernicke's area and what does it do? Answer: temporal lobe,
language comprehension
⩥ Where is Broca's area and what does it do? Answer: frontal lobe,
motor speech
⩥ Damage to the cerebral cortex occurs when highly specialized
neurologic cells are what? What is an example? Answer: deprived of
blood supply, such as when a cerebral artery becomes occluded
⩥ What occurs in Wernicke's aphasia?. Answer: trouble associating
words to situations
⩥ What occurs in Broca's aphasia?. Answer: know what they want to say
but they cant get the words out
⩥ On most people speech is located on the _______ side of the brain.
Answer: left
, ⩥ What is global aphasia?. Answer: when both wernicke's and broca's
aphasia occurs
⩥ Left cerebral cortex receives sensory information from and controls
motor function to __________ side of the body. Answer: right
⩥ The nurse is performing a mental status examination on a patient
diagnosed with subdural hematoma. This test assesses which of the
following?
A. Cerebellar function
B. Intellectual function
C. Cerebral function
D. Sensory function. Answer: C. Cerebral function
⩥ What are the four main parts of the peripheral nervous system?.
Answer: reflexes, cranial nerves, spinal nerves, autonomic nervous
system
⩥ What are reflexes?. Answer: basic defense mechanisms of nervous
system
⩥ What are the four types of reflexes?. Answer: deep tendon, superficial,
visceral, pathologic
HEALTH EXAMPREP 2026 TEST BANK AND
PRACTICE SOLUTION
⩥ What is the CNS comprised of? Answer: the brain and spinal cord
⩥ What is the peripheral nervous system? Answer: all the nerve fibers
(outside of the brain and spinal cord) including 12 pairs of cranial
nerves, 31 pairs of spinal nerves and all of their branches
⩥ What does the thalamus do? Answer: relays information for the
cerebral cortex
⩥ What does the brain stem do? Answer: controls breathing, heart rate,
function
⩥ The nurse observes that a patient's gait is unsteady and assesses a
positive Romberg sign. Which area of the brain is most likely affected?
A. Hypothalamus
B. Medulla oblongata
C. Cerebellum
D. Left hemisphere. Answer: C. Cerebellum
,⩥ What is the cerebral cortex involved in? Answer: thoughts, memory,
reasoning, sensation and voluntary movement
⩥ What are the four lobes of the cerebrum? Answer: frontal, parietal,
occipital and temporal
⩥ Where is Wernicke's area and what does it do? Answer: temporal lobe,
language comprehension
⩥ Where is Broca's area and what does it do? Answer: frontal lobe,
motor speech
⩥ Damage to the cerebral cortex occurs when highly specialized
neurologic cells are what? What is an example? Answer: deprived of
blood supply, such as when a cerebral artery becomes occluded
⩥ What occurs in Wernicke's aphasia?. Answer: trouble associating
words to situations
⩥ What occurs in Broca's aphasia?. Answer: know what they want to say
but they cant get the words out
⩥ On most people speech is located on the _______ side of the brain.
Answer: left
, ⩥ What is global aphasia?. Answer: when both wernicke's and broca's
aphasia occurs
⩥ Left cerebral cortex receives sensory information from and controls
motor function to __________ side of the body. Answer: right
⩥ The nurse is performing a mental status examination on a patient
diagnosed with subdural hematoma. This test assesses which of the
following?
A. Cerebellar function
B. Intellectual function
C. Cerebral function
D. Sensory function. Answer: C. Cerebral function
⩥ What are the four main parts of the peripheral nervous system?.
Answer: reflexes, cranial nerves, spinal nerves, autonomic nervous
system
⩥ What are reflexes?. Answer: basic defense mechanisms of nervous
system
⩥ What are the four types of reflexes?. Answer: deep tendon, superficial,
visceral, pathologic
