Parkinson's disease is characterized as a progressive loss of:
a. serotonin.
b. acetylcholine.
c. dopamine.
d. nitric oxide.
Q. 2You have a patient who has been admitted to the hospital with a stroke. When you visit your patient at meal time, you notice that the small amount of food that has been eaten is pocketed on one side of your patient's mouth. This is a characteristic of which common condition?
a. dysphagia
b. oxidative stress
c. aspiration
d. GERD
Q. 3All of the following individuals are at high risk for having a stroke except:
a. someone who smokes at least 1 pack of cigarettes a day.
b. someone with elevated LDL levels.
c. someone with a blood pressure of 175/95.
d. someone with elevated high-density lipoproteins.
Q. 4The difference between an ischemic stroke vs. a hemorrhagic stroke is:
a. artery occlusion vs. ruptured artery.
b. traveling clot vs. ruptured artery.
c. ruptured artery vs. artery occlusion.
d. artery occlusion vs. traveling clot.
Q. 5Children suffering from epilepsy are sometimes treated with a ketogenic diet, which provides:
a. 70-90 of their total caloric intake from carbohydrates.
b. 3 grams of fat for 1 gram of protein.
c. 10-20 of their total caloric intake from carbohydrate.
d. 4 grams of fat for 1 gram of protein and carbohydrate.
Q. 6Phenytoin, a common drug used to treat epilepsy, interacts with which of the following nutrients?
a. vitamin B12
b. biotin
c. folate
d. thiamin
Q. 7Epilepsy is characterized by:
a. loss of memory.
b. vision loss.
c. recurrent seizures.
d. progressive paralysis.
Q. 8Damage to the occipital lobe results in _____.
a. partial or complete deafness
b. compromise of analytic capabilities
c. partial or complete blindness
d. loss of short-term memory
Q. 9A patient is reporting symptoms of a loss of sensation of pain, touch, and taste. One possible explanation is that there has been to damage to the:
a. parietal lobe.
b. limbic lobe.
c. frontal lobe.
d. cerebellum.
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