PORTAGE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY MODULE 6
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QUESTIONS ANSWERS ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS PACK
●● *A patient is having difficulty tracking their eye laterally. Which
cranial nerve is affected?
Answer: CN VI
●● You are seeing a patient with Parkinson's disease in your office. You
notice they have difficulty turning themselves around to sit in the chair,
freezing in the process. This is an example of what physical
manifestation of the disease?
Answer: bradykinesia
●● *Delta waves appear in which stage of sleep?
REM
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Answer: stage 3
, ●● A person reports feelings of anhedonia, guilt, and worthlessness that
seem to be worse in the morning. They also exhibit excessive weight
loss and experience insomnia. What type of depression are they
experiencing?
Answer: melancholic depression
●● *Each of the following statements is true regarding the organization
of the nervous system except:
The CNS has an afferent and efferent division
The ANS can be divided into the PNS and SNS
The CNS contains the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain
The PNS contains the cranial nerves
Answer: the CNS has an afferent and efferent division
●● *Each of the following statements is true regarding Alzheimer's
disease except:
Neurofibrillary tangles are composed of deteriorating nerve pieces that
arrange themselves around a sticky protein core called amyloid beta
(Neuritic plaques, not neurofibrillary tangles)
Tau protein is resistant to breakdown even after the neuron that produced
it dies
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy contributes tot he pathogenesis of the
disease.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS ANSWERS ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS PACK
●● *A patient is having difficulty tracking their eye laterally. Which
cranial nerve is affected?
Answer: CN VI
●● You are seeing a patient with Parkinson's disease in your office. You
notice they have difficulty turning themselves around to sit in the chair,
freezing in the process. This is an example of what physical
manifestation of the disease?
Answer: bradykinesia
●● *Delta waves appear in which stage of sleep?
REM
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Answer: stage 3
, ●● A person reports feelings of anhedonia, guilt, and worthlessness that
seem to be worse in the morning. They also exhibit excessive weight
loss and experience insomnia. What type of depression are they
experiencing?
Answer: melancholic depression
●● *Each of the following statements is true regarding the organization
of the nervous system except:
The CNS has an afferent and efferent division
The ANS can be divided into the PNS and SNS
The CNS contains the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain
The PNS contains the cranial nerves
Answer: the CNS has an afferent and efferent division
●● *Each of the following statements is true regarding Alzheimer's
disease except:
Neurofibrillary tangles are composed of deteriorating nerve pieces that
arrange themselves around a sticky protein core called amyloid beta
(Neuritic plaques, not neurofibrillary tangles)
Tau protein is resistant to breakdown even after the neuron that produced
it dies
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy contributes tot he pathogenesis of the
disease.
