SENSORY-NEUROLOGIC SYSTEM ASSESSMENT

• Cerebral function

• Cranial nerves (CNs)

• Sensation

• Reflexes

• genito-urinary assessment

• musculo- skeletal assessment

• Sensory-Neurological Assessment

• abdominal assesment

functions of neurologic system

• Sensation, perception, and the integration of sensory perceptual experience.

• Cognition, emotion, and memory

• absorb oxygen, cleans waste gases,

• Regulation of homeostasis, consciousness, vital signs.

produce action potentials or impulses (excitability or irritability) and to transmit impulses (conductivity).

• cell body

• dendrites

• axons

• neurons

contains the nucleus

• myelin sheath

• cell body

• dendrites

• neurons

short, branchlike structures that receive and carry impulses to the cell body.

• dendrites

• axon

• synapse

• neurotransmitters

long fibers that carry the electrical impulses generated by the cell bodies.

• neurotransmitters

• myelin sheath

• axons

• dendrites

covers the axon that allows rapid impulse transmission.

• synapse

• dendrites

• myelin sheath

• axons

a space that convey its impulse from one dendrite of the next neuron.

• synapse

• neurotransmitters

• axons

• dendrites

chemicals released by the axon that carry the impulse to the receiving dendrite.

• neurotransmitters

• axons

• dendrites

• synapse

Incidence of stroke ______ with age

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

• stagnates