APEX - CNS 1: Brain Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Where are multipolar neurons found? -
correct answer ✅Most of the CNS
Where are pseudounipolar neurons found? -
correct answer ✅Dorsal root ganglion
Cranial ganglion
Where are bipolar neurons found? -
correct answer ✅Retina of the eye
Ear
Name the different types of glial cells -
correct answer ✅Astrocytes
Ependymal cells
Oligodendrocytes
Microglia
Astrocyte function -
correct answer ✅Most abundant type of glial cell
Regulation of metabolic environment
Repair neuron after neuronal injury
,APEX - CNS 1: Brain Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Ependymal cell function -
correct answer ✅-Concentrated in the root of the 3rd and 4th
ventricles and spinal canal
-Form the Choroid plexus, which produces CSF
Oligodendrocyte function -
correct answer ✅-Form the myelin sheath in the CNS
*Schwann cells form the myelin sheath in the PNS
Microglia function -
correct answer ✅Act as macrophages and phagocytize neuronal
debris
What four areas can the brain be divided into? -
correct answer ✅-Cerebral hemispheres
-Diencephalon
-Brainstem
-Cerebellum
,APEX - CNS 1: Brain Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Frontal hemisphere contains -
correct answer ✅Motor cortex
Parietal hemisphere contains -
correct answer ✅Somatic sensory cortex
Occipital hemisphere contains -
correct answer ✅vision cortex
Temporal hemisphere contains -
correct answer ✅Auditory cortex and speech centers
-Wernicke's area = understanding speech
-Broca's area = motor control of speech
Cerebral cortex function -
correct answer ✅cognition, sensation and movement
Hippocampus function -
correct answer ✅memory and learning
, APEX - CNS 1: Brain Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Amygdala function -
correct answer ✅Emotion, appetite, responds to pain and
stressors
Basal ganglia -
correct answer ✅fine control of movement
Diencephalon contains -
correct answer ✅Thalamus and hypothalamus
Thalamus function -
correct answer ✅acts as a relay station that directs info to various
cortical structures
Hypothalamus function -
correct answer ✅Primary neurohumoral organ
Brainstem contains -
correct answer ✅midbrain, pons, medulla, reticular activating
system
Questions and Answers 2026
Where are multipolar neurons found? -
correct answer ✅Most of the CNS
Where are pseudounipolar neurons found? -
correct answer ✅Dorsal root ganglion
Cranial ganglion
Where are bipolar neurons found? -
correct answer ✅Retina of the eye
Ear
Name the different types of glial cells -
correct answer ✅Astrocytes
Ependymal cells
Oligodendrocytes
Microglia
Astrocyte function -
correct answer ✅Most abundant type of glial cell
Regulation of metabolic environment
Repair neuron after neuronal injury
,APEX - CNS 1: Brain Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Ependymal cell function -
correct answer ✅-Concentrated in the root of the 3rd and 4th
ventricles and spinal canal
-Form the Choroid plexus, which produces CSF
Oligodendrocyte function -
correct answer ✅-Form the myelin sheath in the CNS
*Schwann cells form the myelin sheath in the PNS
Microglia function -
correct answer ✅Act as macrophages and phagocytize neuronal
debris
What four areas can the brain be divided into? -
correct answer ✅-Cerebral hemispheres
-Diencephalon
-Brainstem
-Cerebellum
,APEX - CNS 1: Brain Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Frontal hemisphere contains -
correct answer ✅Motor cortex
Parietal hemisphere contains -
correct answer ✅Somatic sensory cortex
Occipital hemisphere contains -
correct answer ✅vision cortex
Temporal hemisphere contains -
correct answer ✅Auditory cortex and speech centers
-Wernicke's area = understanding speech
-Broca's area = motor control of speech
Cerebral cortex function -
correct answer ✅cognition, sensation and movement
Hippocampus function -
correct answer ✅memory and learning
, APEX - CNS 1: Brain Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
Amygdala function -
correct answer ✅Emotion, appetite, responds to pain and
stressors
Basal ganglia -
correct answer ✅fine control of movement
Diencephalon contains -
correct answer ✅Thalamus and hypothalamus
Thalamus function -
correct answer ✅acts as a relay station that directs info to various
cortical structures
Hypothalamus function -
correct answer ✅Primary neurohumoral organ
Brainstem contains -
correct answer ✅midbrain, pons, medulla, reticular activating
system
