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1. Pain receptors are:

a. Meissners corpuscles
b. Pacinian corpuscles
c. Free nerve endings
d. Mercle disc
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The distance by which two touch stimuli must be
seperated to be perceived as two separate
stimuli is greatest at:
a. The lips
b. The palm of hand
c. The back of scapula
d. The dorsum of the hand
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• Perception of normal sensory stimuli as
painful is called:
a. Hyperalgesia
b. Allodynia
c. Hyperpathia
d. Causalgia
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• Fine touch and position sense is carried by:
a. Lateral spiniothalamic tract
b. Anterior spinothalamic tract
c. Spinocerebellar tract
d. Dorsal column
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• Phantom limb sensations are best described
by:
a. Weber fechner law
b. Bell Magendie law
c. Power law
d. Law of projection
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• Nucleus of basal ganglia:
a. Dentate
b. Thalamus
c. Caudate
d. Red nucleus
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• Function of basal ganglia:
a. Temperature regulation
b. Planning and programming of movement
c. Gross motor activity
d. equilibrium
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• Neurotransmitter involved in nigrostriatial
pathway is:
a. Serotonin
b. Dopamine
c. Cholinergic
d. adrenergic
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• Cells in cerebellar cortex are all except:
a. Purkinje
b. Bipolar
c. Granule
d. Golgi
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• Cerebellar damage causes all EXCEPT:
a. Dysmetria
b. Hypertonia
c. Ataxia
d. Past-pointing
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• Inability to perform rapid alternating
movement is:
a. Past-pointing
b. Dysdiadokokinesia
c. Dysmetria
d. None
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• Human brain is more intelligent than monkey’s
brain due to:
a. Larger brain
b. Increased convulsons
c. Increase brain area compared to body surface
area
d. More blood supply
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• UMN INCLUDES:
a. Pyramidal cells
b. Peripheral cells
c. Anterior horn cells
d. Glial cells
e. Schwann cells
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• Globus pallidus, putamen are present in:
a. Pons
b. Basal ganglia
c. Thalamus
d. Cerebellum
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• True about spiniocerebellar tract is:
a. Equilibrium
b. Smoothens and cordibates movement
c. Planning and programming
d. learning
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• Which of the following adequately describes
pacinian corpuscles:
a. A type of pain receptor
b. Slowly adapting touch receptor
c. Rapidly adapting touch receptors
d. Located in the joints
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• A delta fibers are not involved in:
a. First pain
b. Slow pain
c. Fast pain
d. Epicritic pain
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• Neurotransmittor for pain is:
a. Dopamine
b. Substance P
c. adrenaline
d. none
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• Somatosensory cortex lesion will affect:
a. Pain
b. Temperature
c. Localization
d. vibration
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• Gate system for pain control is at:
a. Substansia gelatinosa
b. Dorsal root gaglion
c. Both
d. none
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• Skilled voluntary movement is initiated by:
a. Cerebral cortex
b. Basal ganglia
c. Cerebellum
d. Cortical association
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• Pyramids are formed by:
a. Arcuate nucleus
b. Vestibular nuclei
c. Interstitial cells of cajal
d. Lateral corticospinal tract