1. What is the name given to the hereditary ataxia in which the spinocerebellar tracts tend to degenerate early showing signs of cerebellar dysfunction?
Friedreich’s disease
2. What is the inability to identify the shape and nature of objects by touching?
Astereognosis
3. What are large pyramidal neurons of the corticospinal tract called?
Betz cells
4. Damage to the sympathetic nerves causes drooping of eyelids and constriction of pupil. What is this condition called?
Horner’s syndrome
5. Which spinal segments are involved in the quadriceps reflex (knee jerk)?
L3 and L4 ( L = Lumbar )
6. What is caused by the lesions of the right inferior temporal lobe in right handed inviduals?
Prosopognosia ( Inability to recognize faces )
7. What is the inappropriate feeling of familiarity with new events or in new surroundings is clinically known as?
Deju vu phenomenon (Already seen)
8. What is the loss of memory for events immediately preceding brain concussion called?
Retrograde amnesia
9. Frontal lobe lesions will cause selective impairment of mathematical ability. What is the condition called?
Acalculia
10. What is another name for the stretch reflex?
Myotatic reflex
11. If an awareness of the sensation and usually its cause refers to cognition, what does the urge to take action refer to?
Conation
12. What is the increased sensitivity to noxious stimuli called?
Hyperalgesia
13. Where is the auditory speech centre in the brain?
Wernicke’s area (Area 22)
!4. What is the other name for ‘explicit memory’
Declarative memory
15. What is the other name for ‘implicit memory’
Non-declarative or reflexive memory
16. Where is the motor writing centre in the brain?
Exner’s area
17. What is the function of the hippocampus in the brain?
Helps in memory prosessing
18. Why is REM sleep also called as paradoxical sleeps?
The EEG activity is rapid / EEG is similar to awake state.
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