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1. The Central Nervous System Neuro Quiz Identify the correct question Click to Play!  Michael McKeough 2008

2. The Central Nervous SystemNeuro Quiz Click category value to begin.

3. Click to reveal the question Primary Projection Areas100 • This area is located on the precentral gyrus. • It controls voluntary movement of the opposite side of the body. • It contains a homunculus. What is the primary motor cortex? Return to Game Board

4. Click to reveal the question Primary Projection Areas200 • This area is located on the postcentral gyrus. • It receives primary sensation from the opposite side of the body. • It contains a homunculus. What is the primary sensory cortex? Return to Game Board

5. Click to reveal the question Primary Projection Areas300 • This area is located on the superior temporal gyrus. • It receives primary sensation from both ears. What is the primary auditory cortex? Return to Game Board

6. Click to reveal the question Primary Projection Areas400 • This area is responsible for speech production. • It is located in the frontal lobe. What is Broca’s area? Return to Game Board

7. Click to reveal the question Primary Projection Areas500 • This area is the only primary projection region seen on a medial view of the hemisphere. • It is located on both banks of the calcarine sulcus. What is the primary visual cortex? Return to Game Board

8. Click to reveal the question 7 Parts of the CNS100 • In this part of the CNS, gray matter is located centrally in an “H” or “butterfly” shape. • It contains four regions that serve the somatic and visceral needs of the body. What is the spinal cord? Return to Game Board

9. Click to reveal the question 7 Parts of the CNS200 • This subcortical motor control center forms a ventral bridge between the two cerebellar hemispheres. • It contains part of the reticular formation. What is the pons? Return to Game Board

10. Click to reveal the question 7 Parts of the CNS300 • Eye movement and visual and auditory reflexes are controlled by this part. • It contains cranial nerve nuclei: III, IV, and part of V. • It never subdivides during development. What is the midbrain? Return to Game Board

11. Click to reveal the question 7 Parts of the CNS400 • This part of the CNS has gray matter located on the outside, folded into sulci and gyri, and is divided in to four lobes. What is the cerebral hemisphere? Return to Game Board

12. Click to reveal the question 7 Parts of the CNS500 This part of the diencephalon regulates autonomic, endocrine, and visceral function. What is the hypothalamus? Return to Game Board

13. Click to reveal the question Lobes100 • This lobe is responsible for the control of movement, personality, and planning for the future. • It extends from the central sulcus to the frontal pole. What is the frontal lobe? Return to Game Board

14. Click to reveal the question Lobes200 • This lobe is responsible for sensory perception and body image. • It extends from the central sulcus to the parietal-occipital sulcus. What is the parietal lobe? Return to Game Board

15. Click to reveal the question Lobes300 • This lobe is responsible for visual perception. What is the occipital lobe? Return to Game Board

16. Click to reveal the question Lobes400 • This lobe is responsible for learning and memory. • It is located inferior to the lateral fissure. What is the temporal lobe? Return to Game Board

17. Click to reveal the question Lobes500 This physiological system is sometimes referred to as the fifth lobe. It is responsible for learning, memory, and emotion. What is the limbic lobe? Return to Game Board

18. Click to reveal the question Miscellaneous100 • Together these structures form the longitudinal axis of the CNS. What are ascending and descending tracts? Return to Game Board

19. Click to reveal the question Miscellaneous200 • Together these structures form the segmental axes of the CNS. What are spinal and cranial nerves? Return to Game Board

20. Click to reveal the question Miscellaneous300 • Spinal nerves emerge from above the corresponding vertebra in this spinal region. What is the cervical region? Return to Game Board

21. Click to reveal the question Miscellaneous400 • When a bulging or protruding intervertebral disc impinges on the dorsal roots of a spinal nerve it produces this type of symptoms in this location. What is impaired sensation in the corresponding dermatome? Return to Game Board

22. Click to reveal the question Miscellaneous500 • These are the major neuro-developmental events that shape function after the CNS is formed. What are myelination and synaptic pruning? Return to Game Board

23. Click to reveal the question Pathology 100 • These are the cause and major effect of aging on the CNS. What is the progressive loss of cells and associated decrease in function? Return to Game Board

24. Click to reveal the question Pathology 200 • This principal of organization accounts for why signs and symptoms of impaired function appear on the side of the body opposite brain damage. What is the fact that longitudinal systems (ascending and descending tracts) are crossed? Return to Game Board

25. Click to reveal the question Pathology 300 • In an immature skull, this condition produces an enlarged head. • In a mature skull, this condition produces enlarged ventricles. • This condition is most often caused by occlusion of the flow of cerebrospinal fluid. What is hydrocephalus? Return to Game Board

26. Click to reveal the question Pathology 400 This theory explains why damage to a particular region of the CNS produces specific functional deficits. What is localization theory? Return to Game Board

27. Click to reveal the question Pathology 500 • This is the most common class of tumors arising from within the CNS. What is a meningioma? Return to Game Board