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6. What is the function of the reticulospinal tract?
- Medial reduces tone and lateral increases it
- Control extensors of the arm and flexors of the legs
- Lateral reduces tone and medial increases it
- Control flexors of the arm and extensors of the legs
7. Where does the corticospinal tract divide into the anterior and lateral tracts?
- The medulla
- The spinal cord
- The crus cerebri of the pons
- The midbrain
8. What is the function of the vestibulospinal tract?
- Coordination of head movement
- Control flexors of the arms and extensors of the legs
- Alters tone of muscle
- Fine control of hand movements
9. Which of these is not a symptom of damage to the descending tracts?
- Babinski's sign
- Fasciculations
- Hyperreflexia
- Clonus
10. Decussation of the DCML occurs where?
- The medulla
- The spinal cord
- Doesn't decussate
11. Which of these is not a common cause of DCML loss?
- Tumour
- Syphillis
- Brown-Sequard
- B12 deficiency
12. The anterolateral system decussates where?
- The substantia gelatinosa in the dorsal horn
- The medulla
- Immediately upon entering the spinal cord
- The olivary nucleus
13. Which of these statements is true?
- The sensory cortex is the same as the precentral gyrus
- The third order neurones of the DCML travel through the internal capsule
- Second order neurones travel from the thalamus to the ipsilateral sensory cortex
- Touch and proprioception is carried via ventral columns
14. The anterior spinothalamic tract transmits information about what?
- Proprioception
- Pressure
- Pain
- Temperature
15. The cuneocerebellar tract is involved in what?
- Fine touch
- Muscle coordinaton
- Temperature
- Pain
16. Where does the majority of the lateral corticospinal tract decussate?
- Pons
- Pyramids of lower medulla
- Spinal cord
- Ventral horn of cervical spinal cord
17. Which of these is not caused by Brown-Sequard syndrome?
- Contralateral hemiparesis
- Ipsilateral loss of touch
- Ipsilateral loss of proprioception
- Contralateral loss of pain
18. The dorsal column medial lemniscus carries what information?
- Touch and vibration
- Pain and temperature
- Crude touch and pressure