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Building Blocks of the NS Jan 16 Flashcards

1
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Damage to the visual cortex can lead to?

A

Cortical Blindness

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2
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Cortical Blindness

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Partial loss of vision caused by damage to occipital cortex

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3
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Parietal Lobe is responsible for?

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BAS: Body awareness, attentions, spatial navigation,

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4
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Damage to parietal lobe leads to

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Attentional/ Hemispatial Neglect, not blindness but you neglect the left side of your visual field

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5
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What is one of the most evolved parts of the brain?

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Frontal lobe

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6
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Frontal Lobe

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Motor Functions, Speech, attention, EF, impulse control

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7
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What part of the brain distinct us from other animals?

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Frontal Lobe

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8
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Temporal Lobe

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HAL: Higher level visual processing, Auditory Cortex, Language Comprehension

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9
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Disruption of visual areas can lead to

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Agnosia

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10
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Disruption of language areas can lead to

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Aphasia

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11
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Agnosia

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Form of blindness to specific domains

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12
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Aphasia

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Loss of ability to understand or express speech

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13
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Broca’s area

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Speech production

Broken speech

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14
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Wernicke’s area

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Understanding words

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15
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Your ___ system is composted of what two system?

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Nervous system; CNS & PNS

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16
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CNS

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Everything enclosed in the bones of the cranium & vertebae

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17
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What are the 3 layers of the meninges?

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Dura: outermost & thickest
Arachnoid: spider-like web & in between
Pia: innermost & thinnest

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18
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What tissue covers the skull & brain?

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Meninges

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19
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Meningitis

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Viral or bacterial infection of the meninges & results in inflammation

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20
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Meningioma

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An uncontrolled growth of cells in the meninges produces a surface tumor

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21
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Cells in the brain are evenly divided between ____ & ____

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neurons & glia

22
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All mammalian neurons have ____ & _____

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1 cell body & 1 axon but have many dendrites

23
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dendritic spines

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  • the more the better
  • snypases are made on the spines
  • they are the site at which excitatory synapses are formed
24
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Phospolipids

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Makes up the plasma membrane

25
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Phospholipids are made up of what four things?

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1) Two fatty acid tails
2) Love fat (lipophilic)
3) Tails gate water (hydropholic)
4) head loves water (hydropohillic)

26
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What are made at dendritic spines?

A

Synpases

27
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What are pumps?

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They are special class of membrane proteins that require energy AGAINST the concentration gradient; maintains balance

28
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Receptors that form ion channels are called

A

Inonotropic receptors

29
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What happens when nuerotransmitters bind?

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It changes in the shape of the proteins that make up the channel- this is called conformational change

30
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Iontropic ON EXAM

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Rapid action
Short term
Signaling

31
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Metabotropic

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Slow
Longer effect
Modulating

32
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What are the 3 elements that make up the neuronal cytoskeleton?

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Microtobulues, neurofilaments, actin microfilament

33
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What are the 2 major structural elements of a neuron? What do they do?

A

neurofilaments & actin microfilament- they maintain & establish a neuron’s complex shape

34
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What do nuerons use microtubles for?

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As highways to transport vesicles & other organelles

35
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Name one class of glial cells

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Ogliodendrocyte

36
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Why can the schwann cells respond quickly to injury?

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Can phagocytose damaged meylin & produce new myelin in a short amount of time

37
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Signaling

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Sends messages that need action; talking, moving, sensation/perception

38
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Astrocytes

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Helps the blood vessels pump nutrients from the cell

39
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What are the immune cells of the brain

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Microglia

40
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How can activation of microglia be problematic?

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If there is not threat/infection & they activate

41
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What does microglia do?

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It surveys for damage, infection, engulfing dead cells & debris

42
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What do ependymal cells make?

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Epithelial cells produce, secrete, & circulate CSF in the ventricles

43
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Ionotropic receptors are _____ and _____ in their action than metabotropic receptors and are more likely to be involved in ___ than ___

A

Faster and shorter; signaling and modulating

44
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Dendritic spines

A
  • synapses are made on the spine
  • the more spines, the better
  • if you add more synpases= more spines
45
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In the CNS, where do majority of the excitatory synapses form?

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On dendritic spines

46
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Phospholipid

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Makes up the plasma membrane

47
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Phospholipids are composed of what three things?

A

1) Two fatty acid tails
2) Love fat ( Lipophilic)
3) Polar head that loves water (Hydrophilic)

48
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What is a pump

A

special class of membrane proteins that requires energy to operate AGAINST the concentration gradient

49
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Modulating

A

Happnes at a much slower pace; memory, emotion,

50
Q

_____ is important for transporting waste out of the cell

A

Microtobulues

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