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Apraxia inability to make a motor plan, as a result of brain damage.
Ataxia lack of muscle coordination
Aphasia impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to
Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing
understanding).
1 olfactory Making client smell something pleasant
front of brain
2 optic thalamus - test visual acuity (Snellen chart, or # of fingers)
front of brain
3 Oculomotor thalamus - looking up, in and left to right
midbrain
4 Trochlear midbrain - cross eyes into nose
5. Trigeminal pons - - Dull vs light sensation in: Opthalmic (forehead) Maxillary
(Cheek)Mandibular (Jawline)
- Have the patient open and close mouth (feel around temporomandibular
joint)
, 6 Abducens pons- looking laterally (left and right)
7 Facial controls most facial expressions
secretion of tears & saliva
taste
pons - Test facial symmetry - Taste on anterior 2/3 of tongue - smile - wrinkle
forehead
8 Vestibulocochlear hearing and equilibrium
pons (acoustic) - Whisper test - Rinne Test - Weber Test
9 Glossopharyngeal medulla - Gag reflex- Taste on posterior 1/3 of the tongue - not gagging is a
sign of lesion
10 Vagus medulla - - Say "aah" - Talk to see if uvula deviates to one side
11 Spinal Accessory controls trapezius & sternocleidomastoid
controls swallowing movements
spinal cord - shoulder shrug against resistance
medulla
12 Hypoglossal medulla - stick tongue straight out - will deviate if there is a lesion
Somatosensory pathways - Posterior column pathways: Primary afferent sensory information is coming in from the dorsal roots then
Proprioception, vibration, fine touch travels to the ipsilateral white matter columns and ascends all the way to dorsal
column nuclei in the medulla then it will synapse onto a second sensory neuron
that crosses over to the other side of the medulla and that axon will continue to
ascend now on the contralateral synapse on the thalamus will then project up
to the primary somatosensory cortex.
Somatosensory pathways- Anterolateral pathways: Pain Sensory information comes in through dorsal root ganglia to the spinal cord
and Temperature and crosses over to the other side of the spinal cord, and go up to the
thalamus and then go to the primary sensory cortex thalamus (relay station).
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Terms in this set (69)
Apraxia inability to make a motor plan, as a result of brain damage.
Ataxia lack of muscle coordination
Aphasia impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to
Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing
understanding).
1 olfactory Making client smell something pleasant
front of brain
2 optic thalamus - test visual acuity (Snellen chart, or # of fingers)
front of brain
3 Oculomotor thalamus - looking up, in and left to right
midbrain
4 Trochlear midbrain - cross eyes into nose
5. Trigeminal pons - - Dull vs light sensation in: Opthalmic (forehead) Maxillary
(Cheek)Mandibular (Jawline)
- Have the patient open and close mouth (feel around temporomandibular
joint)
, 6 Abducens pons- looking laterally (left and right)
7 Facial controls most facial expressions
secretion of tears & saliva
taste
pons - Test facial symmetry - Taste on anterior 2/3 of tongue - smile - wrinkle
forehead
8 Vestibulocochlear hearing and equilibrium
pons (acoustic) - Whisper test - Rinne Test - Weber Test
9 Glossopharyngeal medulla - Gag reflex- Taste on posterior 1/3 of the tongue - not gagging is a
sign of lesion
10 Vagus medulla - - Say "aah" - Talk to see if uvula deviates to one side
11 Spinal Accessory controls trapezius & sternocleidomastoid
controls swallowing movements
spinal cord - shoulder shrug against resistance
medulla
12 Hypoglossal medulla - stick tongue straight out - will deviate if there is a lesion
Somatosensory pathways - Posterior column pathways: Primary afferent sensory information is coming in from the dorsal roots then
Proprioception, vibration, fine touch travels to the ipsilateral white matter columns and ascends all the way to dorsal
column nuclei in the medulla then it will synapse onto a second sensory neuron
that crosses over to the other side of the medulla and that axon will continue to
ascend now on the contralateral synapse on the thalamus will then project up
to the primary somatosensory cortex.
Somatosensory pathways- Anterolateral pathways: Pain Sensory information comes in through dorsal root ganglia to the spinal cord
and Temperature and crosses over to the other side of the spinal cord, and go up to the
thalamus and then go to the primary sensory cortex thalamus (relay station).
