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STUVIA 2024/2025Chapter 13
loss of ability to interpret sensory information - ✔✔agnosia
among some individuals over the age of 40, the brain undergoes gradual deterioration
resulting in confusion, short-term memory loss, and restlessness - ✔✔Alzheimer Disease
(AD)
a disease characterized by the progressive atrophy of muscle caused by hardening of nervous
tissue on the lateral columns of the spinal cord - also known as Lou Gehrig Disease -
✔✔Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
form of pain management - aspirin, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen - ✔✔analgesic
loss of sensation. given during surgery to go unconscious. - ✔✔anesthesia
physician who manages anesthesia - ✔✔anesthesiologist
occurs when the mental state of apprehension of danger and fear dominates a person's
behavior - usually an acute response that includes restlessness, psychological tension,
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tachycardia, and shortness of breath - ✔✔anxiety disorder
inability to speak - ✔✔aphasia
attention deficit with the additional symptom of hyperactivity - ✔✔attention deficit disorder
a developmental disorder that varies in its severity with the patient, characterized by
withdrawal from outward realty and impaired development in social conduct and
communication - ✔✔autism
patient suffers from paralysis of the face muscles on one side due to damage to the seventh
cranial nerve - ✔✔bell palsy
mental disorder that affects the cognitive functions of the cerebrum, causing alternating
periods of high energy and mental confusion (mania) with low energy and mental depression -
✔✔bipolar disease
head pain (headache) - ✔✔cephalagia
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an inflammation of the cerebellum - symptoms include loss of muscle coordination and
equilibrium - ✔✔cerebellitis
an aneurysm that affects the arteries channeling blood to the brain, placing the brain at great
rick of the damage that would result from a burst aneurysm - burst brain aneurysm is a major
cause of a stroke - ✔✔cerebral aneurysm
a diagnostic procedure that reveals blood flow to the brain by X-ray photography -
✔✔cerebral angiography
disease that affects the arteries supplying the brain - vessels gradually close due to the
accumulation of fatty plaques, reducing blood flow to the brain - ✔✔cerebral athersclerosis
a moving blood clot in an artery of the brain - ✔✔cerebral embolism
the condition of bleeding form blood vessels associated with the cerebrum - ✔✔cerebral
hemorrhage
a condition that appears at birth or shortly afterwards - partial muscular paralysis that persists
throughout life and is caused by a brain lesion present at birth or a brain defect that arose
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during development - no treatment or cure - ✔✔cerebral palsy
clinical term for a stroke - occurs when the blood supply to the brain is reduced or cut off,
resulting in the irreversible death of brain cells followed by the losses of mental function of
death - can be caused by emboli (moving blood clots), thrombus (stationary blood clot), or a
hemorrhage (bleeding resulting from injured blood vessels or a burst aneurysm) -
✔✔cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
a general term describing several levels of abnormally decreased consciousness - ✔✔coma
a procedure involving the use of a computed to interpret a series of X-ray images and
construct from them a 3D view of the brain - ✔✔computed tomography (CT scan)
an injury to soft tissue resulting from a blow or violent shaking - a minor injury resulting in
head pain, dizziness, and sometimes nausea - ✔✔concussion
series of involuntary muscular spasms caused by an uncoordinated excitation of motor
neurons that triggers muscle contraction - also known as a seizure - ✔✔convulsion
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