NERVOUS ANAPHY

Certainly! Here's the rearranged version of the exam, where the answer and rationale
appear in the third column, not in the choices column:

Question Choices Answer & Rationale

1. What is the primary a) Memory formation b) Answer: d) Reasoning and

function of the frontal Balance c) Sensory decision-making The frontal
lobe? processing d) Reasoning and lobe is involved in reasoning,
decision-making decision-making,
problem-solving, and controlling
voluntary movements.

2. Which of the a) Coordination b) Balance c) Answer: c) Memory formation

following is NOT a Memory formation d) Muscle The cerebellum is responsible
function of the tone regulation for coordination, balance, and
cerebellum? motor skills, but not memory
formation.

3. Which structure a) Pineal gland b) Corpus Answer: b) Corpus callosum

connects the two callosum c) Cerebellum d) The corpus callosum is a bundle
hemispheres of the Hippocampus of nerve fibers that allows
brain? communication between the left
and right brain hemispheres.

4. What are the a) Membranes that protect Answer: a) Membranes that

meninges? the brain and spinal cord b) protect the brain and spinal
Blood vessels that supply cord The meninges are
oxygen c) Nerve cells that protective layers of tissue
transmit impulses d) surrounding the brain and spinal
Fluid-filled sacs cord.

5. Which of the a) Dura mater b) Arachnoid Answer: d) Pons The

following is NOT a type mater c) Pia mater d) Pons meninges include the dura
of meninges? mater, arachnoid mater, and pia
mater. The pons is part of the
brainstem.

6. Which of the a) Memory formation b) Answer: c) Regulates basic

following is a primary Coordination c) Regulates life functions The brainstem
function of the basic life functions d) Higher controls vital functions such as
brainstem? cognitive functions heart rate, breathing, and
swallowing.
7. What is the function a) Auditory processing b) Answer: b) Visual processing
of the occipital lobe? Visual processing c) Balance The occipital lobe is primarily
d) Movement coordination responsible for processing
visual information.

8. Which of the a) Optic nerve (CN II) b) Answer: a) Optic nerve (CN II)
following cranial nerves Vagus nerve (CN X) c) Facial The optic nerve (CN II) transmits
is responsible for nerve (CN VII) d) Trigeminal visual information from the eyes
vision? nerve (CN V) to the brain.

9. Which cranial nerve a) Optic nerve (CN II) b) Answer: c) Facial nerve (CN
controls facial Vagus nerve (CN X) c) Facial VII) The facial nerve (CN VII)
movements and nerve (CN VII) d) Trigeminal controls the muscles of facial
expressions? nerve (CN V) expression, including smiling
and frowning.

10. What is the primary a) Auditory processing b) Answer: a) Auditory

function of the Sensory processing c) processing The temporal lobe
temporal lobe? Balance d) Motor control processes auditory information
and is involved in memory and
speech.

11. Which of the a) Rest and digest b) Fight or Answer: b) Fight or flight
following is a function flight response c) Sensory response The sympathetic
of the sympathetic processing d) Regulates nervous system prepares the
nervous system? voluntary movement body for a stress response, also
known as the "fight or flight"
response.

12. What is the a) Rest and digest b) Fight or Answer: a) Rest and digest
function of the flight c) Sensory processing The parasympathetic nervous
parasympathetic d) Regulates voluntary system is responsible for
nervous system? movement calming the body and promoting
digestion and rest.

13. What is a a) A type of nerve cell b) A Answer: b) A chemical that

neurotransmitter? chemical that transmits transmits signals across a
signals across a synapse c) A synapse Neurotransmitters are
type of glial cell d) A type of chemicals that transmit signals
ion channel from one nerve cell to another
across synapses.

14. Which cranial a) Optic nerve (CN II) b) Answer: d) Olfactory nerve
nerve is involved in the Trigeminal nerve (CN V) c) (CN I) The olfactory nerve (CN I)
sense of smell? Vagus nerve (CN X) d) is responsible for the sense of
Olfactory nerve (CN I) smell.
15. What does the a) Voluntary movement b) Answer: c) Involuntary bodily
autonomic nervous Sensory processing c) functions The autonomic
system control? Involuntary bodily functions d) nervous system controls
Thought and reasoning involuntary functions such as
heart rate, digestion, and
respiratory rate.

16. Which of the a) All-or-nothing response b) Answer: a) All-or-nothing

following is a Gradual decrease in response An action potential is
characteristic of an amplitude c) Requires a an all-or-nothing response,
action potential? stimulus to decay d) Inhibits meaning it either happens fully
nerve activity or not at all.

17. What is the role of a) Regulating emotions b) Answer: b) Memory formation

the hippocampus? Memory formation c) The hippocampus is involved in
Processing sensory forming new memories and
information d) Motor control spatial navigation.

18. Which of the a) Cerebellum b) Answer: d) Thalamus The

following structures is Hippocampus c) Corpus thalamus is a major structure of
part of the callosum d) Thalamus the diencephalon, responsible
diencephalon? for relaying sensory and motor
signals to the cerebral cortex.

19. What is the a) Transmit electrical Answer: c) Protects and

purpose of impulses b) Supply oxygen to cushions the brain and spinal
cerebrospinal fluid the brain c) Protects and cord CSF helps cushion and
(CSF)? cushions the brain and spinal protect the brain and spinal
cord d) Regulate body cord, as well as remove waste
temperature products.

20. What is the a) Receive electrical signals Answer: b) Transmit electrical

function of the axon? b) Transmit electrical signals signals away from the cell
away from the cell body c) body The axon carries electrical
Produce neurotransmitters d) impulses away from the
Control cell metabolism neuron's cell body to other
neurons or muscles.

21. What are the three a) Dura mater, arachnoid Answer: a) Dura mater,
layers of meninges mater, pia mater b) Pia mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater
from outermost to dura mater, arachnoid mater The meninges consist of three
innermost? c) Arachnoid mater, dura layers: dura mater (outer),
mater, pia mater d) None of arachnoid mater (middle), and
the above pia mater (inner).
 22. Which type of glial a) Astrocytes b) Microglia c) Answer: d) Oligodendrocytes
cell produces myelin in Schwann cells d) Oligodendrocytes produce
the central nervous Oligodendrocytes myelin in the central nervous
system? system, helping to speed up
nerve signal transmission.

23. Which part of the a) Autonomic nervous system Answer: b) Somatic nervous
nervous system is b) Somatic nervous system c) system The somatic nervous
responsible for Sympathetic nervous system system controls voluntary
voluntary muscle d) Parasympathetic nervous muscle movements, such as
movement? system walking and typing.

24. What is the a) Regulates vital functions Answer: a) Regulates vital

function of the medulla like heart rate and breathing functions like heart rate and
oblongata? b) Controls motor skills c) breathing The medulla
Processes sensory oblongata controls autonomic
information d) Regulates functions like heart rate,
emotions breathing, and blood pressure.

25. Which cranial a) Glossopharyngeal nerve Answer: d) Hypoglossal nerve

nerve controls tongue (CN IX) b) Trigeminal nerve (CN XII) The hypoglossal nerve
movements? (CN V) c) Vagus nerve (CN (CN XII) controls the
X) d) Hypoglossal nerve (CN movements of the tongue.
XII)

Certainly! Continuing with the remaining questions:

Question Choices Answer & Rationale

26. What is the a) Auditory processing b) Answer: b) Sensory

primary function of the Sensory processing c) Motor processing The parietal lobe
parietal lobe? control d) Memory formation processes sensory information
such as touch, temperature, and
pain.

27. Which of the a) Regulates body Answer: d) Controls the

following is NOT a temperature b) Controls movement of skeletal muscles
function of the hunger and thirst c) Regulates The hypothalamus regulates
hypothalamus? emotional responses d) temperature, hunger, thirst, and
Controls the movement of emotional responses, but it does
skeletal muscles
 not control skeletal muscle
movement.

28. Which structure in a) Cerebrum b) Cerebellum c) Answer: b) Cerebellum The

the brain is Medulla oblongata d) cerebellum is responsible for
responsible for Hippocampus maintaining balance and
regulating balance coordinating muscle
and coordination? movements.

29. What is the role of a) Controls reflexes b) Answer: c) Relays sensory

the thalamus in the Regulates heartbeat c) Relays information to the cortex The
nervous system? sensory information to the thalamus acts as a relay station,
cortex d) Controls the passing sensory signals from
autonomic nervous system the body to the cerebral cortex
for processing.

30. Which cranial a) Optic nerve (CN II) b) Vagus Answer: b) Vagus nerve (CN
nerve is involved in nerve (CN X) c) Olfactory X) The vagus nerve (CN X)
controlling heart rate nerve (CN I) d) plays a key role in regulating
and digestion? Vestibulocochlear nerve (CN heart rate, digestion, and other
VIII) autonomic functions.

31. Which of the a) Cerebellum b) Choroid Answer: b) Choroid plexus

following structures is plexus c) Hippocampus d) The choroid plexus produces
responsible for the Corpus callosum cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which
production of circulates around the brain and
cerebrospinal fluid spinal cord.
(CSF)?

32. What is the main a) Regulates sleep-wake cycle Answer: a) Regulates

function of the pineal b) Regulates body sleep-wake cycle The pineal
gland? temperature c) Regulates gland produces melatonin, a
blood pressure d) Produces hormone that helps regulate the
neurotransmitters body's sleep-wake cycle.

33. Which of the a) Controls involuntary actions Answer: c) Controls voluntary

following is true about b) Only controls muscle actions The somatic nervous
movements c) Controls system controls voluntary
the somatic nervous voluntary actions d) Regulates movements, such as walking or
system? heart rate typing.

34. What is the main a) Rest and digest b) Fight or Answer: b) Fight or flight The
function of the flight c) Sensory processing d) sympathetic nervous system
sympathetic nervous Muscle coordination prepares the body for stressful
system? situations by increasing heart
rate, dilating pupils, and
inhibiting digestion.

35. What does the a) Voluntary muscle Answer: c) Heart rate and
vagus nerve control? movements b) Sensory digestion The vagus nerve
perception c) Heart rate and controls autonomic functions,
digestion d) Sensory input for including regulating heart rate,
touch digestion, and respiratory rate.

36. Which of the a) It controls voluntary muscle Answer: c) It controls

following is true about movements b) It regulates involuntary bodily functions
the autonomic sensory input c) It controls The autonomic nervous system
nervous system? involuntary bodily functions d) regulates involuntary functions
It is only active during sleep like heart rate, breathing, and
digestion.

37. What type of a) Motor neurons b) Answer: c) Sensory neurons

neuron transmits Interneurons c) Sensory Sensory neurons transmit
signals from sensory neurons d) Glial cells signals from sensory receptors
receptors to the (e.g., skin, eyes) to the central
central nervous nervous system.
system?

38. Which structure is a) Cerebellum b) Limbic Answer: b) Limbic system The

responsible for system c) Medulla oblongata limbic system is responsible for
processing emotions d) Thalamus processing emotions, memories,
and memory? and arousal.
39. What is the a) Provide nutrients to neurons Answer: d) Form myelin
function of Schwann b) Form myelin sheath in the sheath in the peripheral
cells? central nervous system c) nervous system Schwann cells
Provide structural support d) form the myelin sheath in the
Form myelin sheath in the peripheral nervous system,
peripheral nervous system which speeds up nerve signal
transmission.

40. What is the role of a) Receives electrical signals Answer: b) Transmits

the axon terminal? b) Transmits electrical signals electrical signals to other
to other neurons c) Stores neurons The axon terminal
neurotransmitters d) Protects releases neurotransmitters that
the neuron transmit signals to other
neurons or muscles.

41. Which cranial a) Optic nerve (CN II) b) Answer: b) Vestibulocochlear

nerve is responsible Vestibulocochlear nerve (CN nerve (CN VIII) The
for hearing and VIII) c) Facial nerve (CN VII) vestibulocochlear nerve (CN
balance? d) Trigeminal nerve (CN V) VIII) is responsible for hearing
and balance.

42. Which structure a) Thalamus b) Medulla Answer: d) Hypothalamus The

controls the endocrine oblongata c) Pituitary gland d) hypothalamus controls the
system? Hypothalamus endocrine system by regulating
the release of hormones from
the pituitary gland.

43. What is the a) Transmits signals to other Answer: a) Transmits signals

function of the axon in neurons b) Receives signals to other neurons The axon
a neuron? from other neurons c) Stores carries electrical impulses from
energy for the cell d) the cell body to other neurons or
Translates electrical signals muscles.
into chemical signals

44. Which of the a) Memory formation b) Answer: d) Thought and

following is a function Coordination c) Sensory decision-making The cerebrum
of the cerebrum? processing d) Thought and is involved in thought,
decision-making
 reasoning, decision-making, and
voluntary movement.

45. Which of the a) A conscious response to a Answer: b) A quick, automatic

following best stimulus b) A quick, automatic response to a stimulus A
describes a reflex response to a stimulus c) A reflex arc is an involuntary and
arc? sensory signal sent to the rapid response to a stimulus,
brain for processing d) A bypassing the brain for faster
voluntary movement initiated reaction.
by the brain

46. What is the a) Regulate breathing b) Answer: b) Involve in higher

primary role of the Involve in higher cognitive cognitive functions such as
prefrontal cortex? functions such as decision-making The prefrontal
decision-making c) Regulate cortex is involved in
heart rate d) Store memories decision-making,
problem-solving, and other
higher cognitive functions.

47. Which part of the a) Autonomic nervous system Answer: b) Somatic nervous
nervous system is b) Somatic nervous system c) system The somatic nervous
responsible for Sympathetic nervous system system controls voluntary
voluntary movement? d) Parasympathetic nervous muscle movements, such as
system typing and walking.

48. Which part of the a) Cerebellum b) Medulla Answer: b) Medulla oblongata

brain is responsible oblongata c) Hypothalamus d) The medulla oblongata controls
for the control of basic Occipital lobe vital functions such as heart
life functions such as rate, breathing, and blood
breathing and heart pressure.
rate?

49. What is the role of a) To process sensory Answer: b) To connect the

the corpus callosum? information b) To connect the two hemispheres of the brain
two hemispheres of the brain The corpus callosum is a bundle
c) To control voluntary of nerve fibers that connects the
movements d) To produce left and right hemispheres of the
cerebrospinal fluid brain.
50. What is the a) Sensory processing b) Answer: c) Visual processing
primary function of the Motor control c) Visual The occipital lobe is primarily
occipital lobe? processing d) Speech responsible for processing
production visual information.