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Chapter 3: The Biological Person Flashcards

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Nervous system: Brain injury (BI)

Traumatic brain injury

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An insult to the brain caused by external physical force that may result in finished or altered state of consciousness.

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Nervous system: brain injury (BI)

Acquired brain injury

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Does not result for traumatic history to the head, is not hereditary, congenital, or degenerative, and occurs after birth. Included in this category are oxygen deprivation, aneurysms, infections to the brain, and stroke.

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Nervous system

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Provides the structure and process for communicating sensory perceptual and automatically generated information throughout the body.

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Nervous system: subsystem

Central nervous system

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The brain and spinal cord

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Nervous system: subsystem

Peripheral nervous system

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Spinal and cranial nerves

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Nervous system: subsystem

Automatic nervous system

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Nerves controlling cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and respiratory systems.

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Neuron

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Basic working unit of all the nervous systems and has a diversity of neuronal types.

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Axon

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Cell body with nucleus and conduction fiber.

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Synapse

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Connection between axon and dendrite.

Is the gap between the two.

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Neurotransmitters

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The chemical and electrical ways synapses communicate.

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Neurotransmitter:

Acetylcholine

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Active neurotransmitter in central and peripheral nervous system.

Critical for memory.

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Dopamine

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Plays a role in influencing emotional behavior, cognition, and motor activity.

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Norepinephrine

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Appears throughout the body and plays a role in memory and learning.

Connects brain stem to cerebral cortex.

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Serotonin

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This neurotransmitter is thought to play a role in sensory process, muscular activity, thinking, state of consciousness, mood, depression diagnosis, and anxiety diagnosis.

Lines digestive tract and in tract from the midbrain to all brain regions.

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Frontal lobe function

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Motor behavior
Expressive language
Social functioning 
Concentration and ability to attend
Reasoning and thinking
Orientation to time, place, and person.
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Temporal lobe function

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Language
Memory
Emotions

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Parietal lobe function

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Intellectual processing
Integration of sensory information
-left side: verbal processing
-right side: visual/spatial processing

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Occipital lobe function

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Vision

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Amino acids

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Plays a critical role in inhibiting the firing of impulses of functioning of central nervous system.

Helps with locomotor activity, cardiovascular reactions.

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Peptides

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Play a role in activities such as moderating pain and causing sleepiness.

Opioids are a type of peptides.

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Endocrine system

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Plays a crucial role in our growth, metabolism, development, learning, and memory.

Made up of glands that secrete hormones into the blood system.

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Diabetes mellitus

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Most common illness caused my hormonal imbalance.

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HIV

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Human immunodeficiency virus

1/250 infected

Leads to AIDS

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AIDS

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acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

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Immune system

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Made up or organs and cells that work together to defend the body against disease.

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Antigens

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Foreign substance that can trigger an immune response.

Includes bacteria, fungi, viruses.

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Autoimmune disease

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When the immune system is mistaking my directed at parts of the body it was designed to protect.

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Lymphocytes

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White blood cells.

Developed by organs in the immune system.

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Non-specific immunity

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Cells and phagocytes circulate in the blood and lymph and ingest antigens at the site of the wound.

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Specific immunity

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Lymphocytes respond to an infection by developing a memory of infection that allows the body to make rapid defense against it.

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Anti-bodies

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Protein molecules designed to attach to the surface if specific invaders.

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High blood pressure

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Blood pressure equal to or greater than 140mm Hg.

More likely to effect non-white persons due to environmental factors.

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Cardiovascular system

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Made up of heat and the blood circulatory system.

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Blood pressure

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The measure of the pressure of blood against the wall of a blood vessel.

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Postpoliomyelitis syndrome

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Progressive atrophy of muscles In those who once had polio.

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Musculoskeletal system

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Protects and supports body and provides motion.

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Assistive devices

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Products that are designed by the medical community to help a person communicate, see, hear, or maneuver.

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Uterus

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Home for the unborn child for the nine months between implantation and birth.

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How lower income effects health

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More likely to be exposed to hazards in physical environment.

Engage in riskier health behaviors and lifestyles.

Have more stressors and have fewer resources to cope with stress.

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