NURS 611 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY INTENSE EXAM 2 QUESTION AND ANSWERS (Summer
Series) MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY
1. Review: the parasympathetic system is all about what?
Conserving energy, digesting, metabolism, and rest
2. The sympathetic nervoussystem primarily servesto protect an individual by doing which
of the following? (select all that apply)
A. Decreasing mucous production
B. Increasing blood sugar levels
C. Increasing body temperature
D. Decreasing sweat excretion
E. Increasing blood pressure
Increases blood sugar levels, increases body temperature, and increases blood pressure
In general, sympathetic stimulation promotes responses that are concerned with the
protection of the individual, which include increasing glucose, body temp, and BP.
3. Review: the sympathetic system is all about what?
It’s all about mobilizing energy stores, for instance glucose to muscles, decreased
release of insulin, redirects blood supply from the gut to the muscles, heart, and lungs.
4. Which characteristic isthe most critical index of nervoussystem dysfunction?
Level of consciousness
LOC is the most critical clinical index of nervous system function or dysfunction. An
alteration in consciousnessindicates either improvement or deterioration of a person’s
condition.
5. Thought and goal-oriented behaviors are functions of which area of the brain?
Prefrontal lobe
The prefrontal area is responsible for goal-oriented behavior such as the ability to
concentrate,short-term or recall memory, and the elaboration of thought and inhibition
on the limbic (emotional) areas of the CNS.
6. Where isthe region responsible for the motor aspects?
Broca area in the frontal lobe
Broca speech area is the only region responsible for the motor aspects of speech.
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7. Parkinson and Huntington diseases are associated with defects in which area of the
brain?
Basal ganglia