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| A sudden cerebrovascular event that causes brain damage | What is a stroke |
| Bleeding in the brain | Cerebral hemorrhage |
| Disruption of blood supply | Cerebral ischemia |
| Wall of blood vessels thicken, usually due to fat deposits | Arteriosclerosis |
| Blood leaks into the brain tissue | Hemorrhagic stroke |
| Clot stops blood supply to an area of the brain | Ischemic stroke |
| Brain injury due to a blow that does not penetrate the skull - the brains collides with the skull | Closed head injury |
| Contusions are often on the side of the brain opposite of the blow | Countercoup injury |
| Disturbance on consciousness following a blow to the head and no evidence of structural damge | Concussion |
| Muscular weakness - can occurs 3-30 years after getting syphilis - people with this infection can have personality or mood changes | General paresis |
| Chronic insanity produced by a neurotoxin | Toxic psychosis |
| Lead poisoning | Crack pots |
| Mercury poisoning | Mad hatter |
| Most neuropsychological diseases of genetic origin are associated with recessive genes | Genetic factor |
| Simplex and complex | Two types of partial epilepsies |
| Petit mal and grand mal | Two types of generalized epilepsies |
| Seizures | Primary symptoms of epilepsy |
| Their own brain dysfunction | Cause of epileptics to have seizures |
| Motor seizures | Convulsion seizures |
| Genes, spiked temperature, and brain damage | 3 causes of convulsion seizures |
| Does not involve the whole brain | Partial epilepsy |
| Involves the whole brain | Generalized epilepsy |
| Motor and sensory | Symptoms of partial-simplex seizure |
| Temporal lobe | Location of complex seizures |
| Loss of consciousness and equilibrium | Symptoms of a grand mal seizure |
| Tonus | Rigidity |
| Clonus | Temors |
| Associated with degeneration of the substantia nigra; these neurons release dopamine to the striatum of the basal ganglia | Parkinson's disease |
| Deep brain stimulation of sub-thalamic nucleus | Reduce symptoms of parkinson's |
| Effective for tremor, slowness, rigidity, dystonia, and dyskinesia. commonly used for parkinson's | Sub-thalamic nucleus stimulation |
| Effective for tremor. often used to treat essential tremor | Thalamus stimulation (VIM) |
| Effective for tremor, slowness, rigidity, dystonia, and dyskinesia. used to treat dystonia and parkinson's | Globus pallidus stimulation (GPi) |
| A progressive disease that involves damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, leaving areas of the hared scar tissue | Multiple sclerosis |
| Visual disturbances, muscle weakness, numbness, tremors, loss of motor coordination | Symptoms of multiple sclerosis |
| Nerofibrility tangles and amyloid plaques | Must see this to diagnose alzheimer's |
| Decline in acetylcholine levels | Earliest sign of AD |
| Experimentally induced seizure activity | Kindling model of epilepsy |
| Mice producing human amyloid | Transgenic mouse model of alzheimer's |
| Drug-induced damage comparable to that seen in PD | MPTP model of parkinson's |