Describe the spinal cord, depicting its extent, its composition of gray and white matter, and its spinal roots.

Mrs. Chen, a new mother, brings her infant to the clinic because he has suffered repeated seizures. When questioned, she states that her labor was unusually long and difficult. What condition do you suspect? Will the infant's condition worsen?

If symptoms characteristic of Parkinson's disease appear, which part of the midbrain is inhibited from secreting a neurotransmitter? Which neurotransmitter is it?

Infants have little to no control of the movements of their head. One of the consequences of this is that they are susceptible to shaken baby syndrome, caused by vigorous shaking of an infant or young child by the arms, legs, chest, or shoulders. Forceful shaking can cause brain damage leading to mental retardation, speech and learning disabilities, paralysis, seizures, hearing loss, and even death. Damage to which areas of the brain would account for the clinical signs observed in this syndrome?

Central pattern generators (CPGs) are found at the segmental level of motor control.a. What is the job of the CPGs?b. What controls them, and where is this control localized?

Proceeding deep from the most superficial structure, number the following in the correct sequence:(a) _____ walls of vertebral canal(b) _____ dura mater(c) _____ subdural space(d) _____ epidural space(e) _____ pia mater(f) _____ arachnoid membrane(g) _____ subarachnoid space(h) _____ spinal cord

Describe the functional problems that would be experienced by a person in which these fiber tracts have been cut:a. lateral spinothalamic,b. ventral and dorsal spinocerebellar,c. tectospinal.

The synapsing of several neurons on the same postsynaptic neuron is called (a) serial processing,(b) reverberation, (c) divergence, (d) convergence.

Identify and shade in the locations of all the ascending sensory tracts in the following diagram of the spinal cord.