Ataxias movement problems - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

neurodegenerative disease - Answer incurable debilitating conditions caused by progressive degeneration of nerve cells ataxias - Answer movement problems Dementia - Answer impaired mental functioning Alzheimer's disease - Answer most common form of dementia Examples of Neurodegenerative diseases - Answer -Parkinson's disease -Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis -Huntington's Disease -HIV- related cognitive impairment -Multiple Sclerosis -Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -Alzheimer's Dis...

MTM Exam 4 Diseases Latest Update with Verified Solutions DMD -loss of function, recessive, haplosufficiency -symptoms present < 5 yoa -progressive symmetrical muscular weakness -wheelchair dependent by 12-13 yoa -life expectancy = teens - 30s -do not reproduce -calf pseudohypertrophy -elevated serum creatine kinase -unable to perform neck flexion -complete absence of dystrophin -mutations: deletions, frameshift, nonsense -exon length is NOT a multiple of 3 -frameshifts -> null mutations ...

central nervous system - Answer consists of the brain and spinal cord peripheral nervous system - Answer cranial and spinal nerves somatic nervous system - Answer the division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles autonomic nervous system - Answer the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs (such as the heart). Its sympathetic division arouses; its parasympathetic division calms. senso...

Circadian Rhythms are: - Answer -Physical, mental, behavioral changes that occur over each 24 hour period -Cyclical -Governed primarily by light/dark Biological Clocks: - Answer -Control these cyclic responses -Composed of proteins in almost all tissues Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SNS) - Answer -Overall master clock -Composed of ~ 20,000 nerve cells -Located in the brain & receives direct input from eyes -SCN controls production of melatonin (hormone that makes you drowsy) Disruption...

Ethical and Social Issues 1 Reducing Risk of Injury and Disease 2 Diet and Exercise 3 Adult Preventive Health Care 7 Health Advice for International Travelers 7 Quantitative Aspects of Clinical Decision Making 11 Palliative Medicine 12 Symptom Management in Palliative Medicine 15 Psychosocial Issues in Terminal Illnessc 17 Complementary and Alternative Medicine 20 1 CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE Heart Failure 1 Hypertension 7 Atrial Fibrillation 12 Supraventricular Tachycardia 14 Pacema...