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Hippocampus

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Is a limbic structure involved in memory and emotion. Damage to the hippocampus can result in memory problem. It help go from Short term to long term memory

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Circadian click

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Is the superchiasmic nucleus

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Dopamine Is the causative agent for

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Schizophrenia

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Nor epinephrine and serotonin are implicated in

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Depression and eating disorders. They are significantly involved in regulating appetite mood and sleep.

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Low levels of gaba are linked to

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Anxiety and display

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Large amounts of Dopamine implicated im

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Drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine

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Idiopathic

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A disease of unknown origin

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Iatrogenic

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Refers to illness or complications

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Idiosyncratic

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Eccentric

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Nocebo

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Something that should be ineffective but causes symptoms of bad health.. a bad effect cause by suggestion Oort belief that something is harmful

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Gaba

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Low levels of gaba have been found in purple with anxiety disorders

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Parkinson’s disease

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Due to loss of cells in the substantia negra

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Basal ganglia

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Include the substantia negra and the caudate nucleus. It is associated with the initiation of movement
In tourretes disorder the caudate nucleus appears anxiety and means more tics.

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Akinesia

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Difficulty initiating movement

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Huntington disease

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Results from de generation of the castrate nucleus

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Part of the brain not developed at birth

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Cortex

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How to manage children’s tantrum

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Through extinction

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Partial complex seizures occur in which party of the brain

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The temporal lobes

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A state of wakefulness is prodominated by

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Alpha waves

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Withdrawal from this can cause hallucinations

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Phenobarbital

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Cerebral palsy

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Caused by abnormal brain development that affects a child’s ability to control his or her muscles. It occurs before birth. At birth or after birth

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Neurotransmitter associated with voluntary movement

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Acetylcholine

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Vision is to hearing as

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Occipital lobe is to temporal lobe

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Wernickes brocas and conduction aphasia all have

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Impaired repetition of verbal tasks

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For chronic pain
You can treat it with an antidepressant
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Retroactive interference
When newly learned information interferes with the recall of previously learned information.
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Proactive interference
Occurrs when previously learned material interferes with reveal of new material
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Retrograde amnesia
Forgetting events prior to the accident
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Antregrade amnesia
Refers to amnesia for memories after an accident
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The prefrontal cortex
Is the foremost section of the frontal lobes and is known as the executive center of the brain
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The temporal lobes
House the auditory cortex
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The amygdala
Is the part of the limbic system involved in emotion. Particularly aggression
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A traditional neuroleptic would treat
Poverty of speech
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Thalamus
Sensory relay system except sme
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Hypothalamus
Regulates sleep
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Hippocampus
Memory
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Amygdala
Emotions
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Acute dysthonia
Larynx closure and tightening
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Medication induced Parkinson's
Does not progress
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Acute akasthisia
Medically induced tremors and restlessness
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Parietal lobe
Touch . Pain. Temperature...... In processing sensory information regarding the location of parts of the body as well as interpreting visual information and processing language and mathematics.
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Occipital lobe
Visual cortex
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Brain waves ... Beta waves
Beta emited when we are consciously alert, or we feel agitated, tense, afraid, with frequencies ranging from 13 to 60 pulses per second in the Hertz scale.
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Alpha brain waves
Alpha when we are in a state of physical and mental relaxation, although aware of what is happening around us, its frequency are around 7 to 13 pulses per second.
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Theta
Theta more or less 4 to 7 pulses, it is a state of somnolence with reduced consciousness.
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Temporal lobe
Auditory cortex
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Bradychardia
Slow heart beat
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Tachycardia
Rapid heart beat
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Hypnogogic hallucinations
Occurs as a person falls asleep
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Iatrogenically produced symptoms
Caused by medical or psychological treatment
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A lesion to this results in disturbances of sleep
Hypothalamus because it regulates many homeostatic functions like temperature hunger and aggression
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Seizures that involve only half of the body
Simple partial
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Wernickes aphasia
Incoherent fluent speech
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Bro as aphasia
Difficulty talking
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Korsakoff's syndrome
A disorder secondary to alcohol.. Memory issues. They fill in memory gaps will made up scenarios . Can remember for thirty seconds. Can't remember prior to disorder. Can't remember faces... No long term memory
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Frontal lobes
Critical to complex thinking. Personality.higher level thinking. Critical task shifting
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Post concussion
Headache sleepiness dizziness fatigue
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Damage to this can cause coma or death
Medulla
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Brain difference of schizophrenic
Enlarged ventricle and lateral
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In terms of sleep as we get order we have more
Awakenings
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Subcortical dementia
Huntington or parkinsons Deficit in executive function Slow motor speed Personality change
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Basal ganglia damage causes
Kinesia rigidity and tremor....
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Primary function of the myelin sheath
Increase the speed of neuronal firing
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Acute intra cranial hemorrhage will appear what color on a ct scan
White and it's hyper dense
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To determine whether someone is having seizures use a
Eeg
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Brocas aphasia
broken speech
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Primary site of Alzheimer's dementia
Media temporal lobe
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Stages of Alzheimer's
Devices in memory Apraxia aphasia Impaired intellectual functioning
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Picks disease
Personality changes and behavioral Disinhibition
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Huntington's disease affects which part of the brain
Caudate nucleus. Which is part of the basal ganglia
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Schenoid
A sinus
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Impulses travel through
Axons
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Decussation
The process by which incoming stimuli cross over and are transmitted to the contralateral hemisphere
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Mirror neurons
Associated with empathy and imitation
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Multiple sensory modalities are integrated in the cortical reina know as
Hetero moral cortex
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Benzodiazepines
Depressants and dose dependent effects. Used for anxiety sleep disturbance seizures cerebral palsy and alcohol withdrawal.. Van produce paradoxical anxiety confusion and sleep disturbance
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Parkinson
Tremor dementia temporarily fixed by l dopa. Substation negra
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Papez circuit
Meditates experience of emotion. Included hippocampus mamillary bodies anterior nuclei of the thalamus aND cingulated gurus
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Amygdala and kluverbucy
Involved in control of emotions. Kluver.. No fear docile mouth searching
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Gaba
Anxiety and other Huntington's things
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Huntington's
Depression apathy fidgeting facial grimaces
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Multiple sclerosis
Motor impairments sensory abnormalities fatigue tremors speech problems cognitive impairments
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Beta blockers
Used took treat cardio vascular disorders. Glaucoma migraine headaches anxiety
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Temporal love wernickes area
Contains the primary auditory cortex. Damage caused auditory agnosia impairments in long term memory receptive aphasia
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Pparietal lobe getmann syndrome
Finger agnosia right left confusion dual agraphia acalculia
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Cerebral m and ataxia
Control of motor activities. Damage can cause slurred speech severe tremors and a loss of balance
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Anticholinerhic effects
Caused my medication. Dry mouth bleed vision tachycardia urinary retention constipation memory impairment and confusion
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Wernickes area
Language dominant hemisphere and region that processes comprehension of language
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part of brain not dveloped at birth
cortex
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tx for ocd
exposure with response prevention

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