A 38-year-old woman is taken to the physician because of uncontrolled movements of the arms, legs, head, face, and upper body. These symptoms have increased progressively over the past 12 months. She is also depressed and irritable, and she repeats the same question 6 times during the 30-minute office visit. Gene analyses show expansion of a CAG triplet repeat on chromosome 4. The MOST likely diagnosis is:

A muscle spindle is most likely to sense:

The fiber that is responsible for the dynamic response in a muscle spindle receptor is the:

Which of the following structures in the vestibular apparatus is responsible for the detection of angular acceleration?

Decerebrate rigidity can be explained, at least in part, by:

What is most likely to increase the sensitivity of the stretch reflex?

The neurological disease associated with the globus pallidus produces symptoms of:

“Rogerian counseling” is also known as

The person responsible for the tasks of mourning is:

A family comes in with you because the death of their loved one is impending. During the time in which you are working with them and pre-planning, they receive a phone call that their loved one has passed away. They let you know this and then leave to go be with the loved one who has just passed and other family members that are there.  In this situation, even though they notify while they are there that their loved one has passed away, it is still considered pre-need counseling until you go to the actual place you are making the removal and meet with them there.