MA 110 CH 10
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- Cerebr/o
- Brain
- Encephal/o
- Brain
- Myel/o
- Spinal Cord
- Neur/i
- Nerves
- Neur/o
- Nerves
- Sensory organs include?
- Eyes, ears, nose, skin, tongue.
- Caus/o
- To bring about a condition also caustic or harmful to tissue
- Concuss/o
- Shaken
- Contus/o
- Bruise
- -esthesia
- feeling
- Esthet/o
- feeling
- -graphy
- picture or record
- Klept/o
- to steal
- -mania
- madness
- Mening/o
- maninges - enclose 3 layers of CNS
- -phobia
- irrational fear
- Psych/o
- mind
- -tropic
- toward or affinity for
- Sensory Organs & Receptors primary functions?
- Receive external stimulation and transmit these stimuli to the sensory neurons.
- Divisions of the nervous system are?
- Central & Peripheral
- CNS contains the ?
- -Brain & Spinal Cord -Process info and regulate bodily activity
- Peripheral Nervous system contains what?
- -Voluntary (Somatic) -Involuntary (visceral)
- The CNS and PNS contain what kind of neurons?
- 1. Afferent/sensory 2. Efferent/motor
- Afferent Neurons go where, do what?
- Cary impulses toward the Brain/Spinal cord.
- Efferent Neurons go where/do what?
- Cary impulses away from the brain/spinal cord.
- Neurotransmitters
- help neurons communicate
- Neurotransmitters are ___, produced ____, and released into ___.
- 1. Chemicals 2. Neurons 3. Synapses
- Neurotransmitters attach to what, when communicating across a synapse.
- Receptors (which are proteins)
- A nerve is what?
- A bundle of neurons.
- Cerebrum - back of head
- 1. Thought 2. Memory 3. Judgment 4. Sensory processing 5. Voluntary Movement
- Cerebellum
- Coordination & movement
- Brainstem
- Primitive function necessary for homeostasis
- Thalamus
- Relays & modulates information traveling between spinal cord and brain.
- Hypothalamus
- Regulates many involuntary functions including temp, hunger, sleep
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
- Protect the CNS, nourish brain/spinal cord
- Meninges
- Tissue that covers the brain/spinal cord.
- Name 3 layers of the meninges.
- 1. Dura Mater 2. Arachnoid membrane 3. Pia Mater
- PNS nerve parts are?
- 12 Cranial 31 from Spinal cord
- Spinal cord sections are?
- C= Cervical T= Thoracic L= Lumbar S= Sacral
- The autonomic nervous system is what?
- The involuntary part of the PNS.
- Anesthesiologist:
- physician that administers
- Anesthetist:
- mid-level practitioner that administers anesthetic
- Neurologist:
- physician that treats and diagnoses diseases of the nervous system
- Neurosurgeon:
- surgeon that repairs diseases of the nervous system
- Psychiatrist:
- physician that diagnoses and treats emotional disorders
- Psychologist:
- a non-physician that diagnoses and treats emotional disorders
- Anesthetic
- drug which produces analgesia, amnesia and sedation.
- Aphasia
- Inability to speak
- Bell's Palsy
- Paralysis of face due to cranial nerve disfunction
- Carotid ultrasonography:
- assessment of carotid artery using sound waves
- Causalgia
- Burning pain
- Cephalgia
- Headache
- Cerebral contusion
- Trauma to cerebrum
- Cerebral palsy
- condition with poor muscle control
- cervical radiculopathy
- removal of cervical disc
- Coma
- Deep state of unconsciousness
- Concussion
- Trauma to brain
- Cranial hematoma
- Brain bruise/contusion
- Electroencephalography
- recording of electrical activity in brain
- Encephalitis
- inflammation of brain
- Epidural anesthesia
- Local anesthetic in CSF
- Hemorrhagic stroke
- damage to brain due to ruptured vessel
- Hydrocephalus
- Excess fluid (CSF)in brain
- Hyperesthesia
- excessively sensitive to touch and pain
- Ischemic stroke
- damage to brain due to inadequate blood flow
- Lethargy
- slow, listless movement & speech
- meningitis
- inflammation of covering of brain and spinal cord
- Migraine headache
- headache caused by vascular distention
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Degenerative condition of neurons in brain stem
- Meyelitis
- inflammation in spinal cord
- Myelography
- diagnostic examination of spinal cord.
- Cholinergic fibers
- release acetylcholine
- Acetylcholine
- A neurotransmitter influencing some muscle action
- Adrenergic
- release norepinephrin
- Norepinephrin
- A neurotransmitter that responds to hypotension and physical stress
- Paresthesia
- depresses sensitivity to touch and pain
- parkinson disease
- CNS disorder effecting movement
- Reye's Syndrome
- CNS condition in children after virus and aspirin
- Sciatica
- damage to the sciatic nerve
- Syncope
- fainting
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- pain and twitching in face
- Epidural Hematoma
- Torn blood vessels causing bleeding in epidural space
- Subdural hematoma
- Bleeding in brain
- Contralateral lesion on RT affects where
- The left side
- Acrophobia
- heights
- Claustrophobia
- enclosed spaces
- Cognition
- ability to think and reason
- Delirium
- confusion,agitation
- Delirium Tremens
- Alcohol or drug withdrawl
- Delusion
- Pt's think they are something they are not
- dementia
- decline in mental abilities
- Dyslexia
- Brain misinterprets what pt sees
- DSM is what?
- Diagnostic Statistical Manual
- Schizophrenia
- loss of contact with reality
- Trichotillomania
- Disorder in which patient pulls out hair.