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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:

Decerebrate rigidity caused by simultaneous contraction of both flexor and extensor muscles in a limb can be alleviated by:

Neurological disease associated with the cerebellum produces symptoms that include:

The body part that has the greatest area of representation in the primary motor cortex is the:

Hemiballismus is associated with damage or dysfunction of the:

These structures are all part of the basal ganglia, EXCEPT:

The main function of Broca’s area of the cortex is to:

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The motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease result from a lack of which of the following neurotransmitters in the substantia nigra?

The rubrospinal tract originates from the: