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what are the two main sources of blood into the circle of willis

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  • internal carotid
  • vertebral artery
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ACA- anterior cerebral artery

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  • branches from internal carotid
  • had many superficial and deep branches and anastomosis
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MCA - middle cerebral artery

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  • branches from internal carotid
  • 4 main branches
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PCA - posterior cerebral artery

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  • branch from the basilar artery near the pituitary stalk at the ponotmesencephalic junction

supplies

  • occipital lobe,
  • inferomedial temporal lobe,
  • a large portion of the thalamus
  • upper brain stem,
  • midbrain,
  • lateral geniculate body
  • hippocampus
  • parahyippocampal gryus
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CNS cells:

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  • neurons
  • macroglia:
  • microglia
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What are macroglia and describe

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derived from nerve cell linage

  • astrocytes: provide structure
  • oligodendrocytes: myleinate
  • Schwann: mylinate in PNS
  • ependymal cells: help produce CSF
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Microglia

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  • derived from monocyte cell lineage
  • immune cell of brain
  • 10% of CNS cells
  • clean foreign bodies
  • are times where microglia stay active and cause damage
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Cellular dysfunction: neural cell death

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  • apoptosis: programmed but can cause damage if it outside normal range of occurring
  • necrosis: unplanned usually caused by an external factor, cell membrane gets disrupted and the insides affect other cells when they leak out
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Cellular dysfunction: excitotoxicity

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  • free radicals: can be dangerous or harmful
  • released during exercise but that helps the body understand how to deal with them
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What regulates the extracellular environment of the CNS

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  • blood brain barrier: tightly joined endothelial cells; block diffusion
  • ependymal cells: line ventricles and spinal canal and regulate metabolism
  • regulate the extracellular environment and protect the nervous system structures
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Amino acid Neurotransmitters

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  • glutamate: excitation
  • GABA & Glycine: inhibitory
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Amines Neurotransmitters

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  • cholinergic = acetylcholine
  • biogenic: catecholamines, serotonin
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  • neuopeptides Neurotransmitters
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  • enkephalins
  • b-endorphins
  • substance P
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gaseous Neurotransmitters

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  • nitrous oxide NO
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Sympathetic NS neurotransmitters and what they cause as well as receptor types

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  • adrenergic stimulate sympathetic NS
  • can have a positive effect meaning it increases sympathetic response or a negative effect meaning that it decreases sympathetic response
  • receptor types: alpha and beta
  • nicotinic receptor at preganglioic neuron
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parasympathetic Neurotransmitters

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  • cholinergics for both pre and post ganglionic
  • only positive effects
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  1. adrenergics
  2. cholinergincs
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  • stimulate sympathetic NS
  • stimulate parasympatheic NS
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beta blockers
vs
alpha blockers

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  • inhibit sympathetic (beta receptors mostly)
  • inhibit sympathetic (alpha receptors mostly)
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anticholinergics

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inhibit parasympathetic NS

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what are side effects of increase in parasympathetic function

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  • GI distress: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,
  • abdominal cramping,
  • bronchoconstriction,
  • increase salivation
  • bradycardia
  • pupils constricted
  • impacts vision
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Biogenic amines

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  • norepinephrine
  • Dopamine
  • serotonin
  • work together to regulate attention and alertness
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Norepinephrine effects with Mental health regulation

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  • attention
  • motivation
  • pleasure
  • reward
  • mood
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Dopamine

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  • alertness
  • energy
  • Anxiety
  • involved in movement quality
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Serotonin

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  • obsession
  • compulsions
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CNS disorders

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Infections
neoplasm
vascular
trauma
degenerative

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Infectious disorders of the CNS

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  • Meningitis (viral, tuberculous, bacterial)
  • encephalitis
  • brain abscess
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Neoplasms

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  • tumor
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Vascular- CNS disorder

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TIA
stroke

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Trauma- CNS disorder

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TBI

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Degenerative disorders - CNS disorders

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  • get progressively worse
  • ALS
  • Alzheimer’s
  • huntington disease
  • MS
  • Parkinson
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Examples of the variety of clinical manifestations of CNS disorders

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  • Sensory disturbances
  • Movement disorders
  • disorders of coordination movement
  • deficits of higher brain function
  • altered states of consciousness
  • emotional instability
  • memory problems
  • brainstem dysfunction
  • autonomic system dysfunction
  • aging and the CNS
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Sensory disturbances: spinal cord lesion

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  • decreased pain on CL side and decreased touch on ipsilateral side
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Lesion above medulla

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  • decreased pain and touch on contralateral side
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Spinal cord lesions DCML

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  • sensations ipsilateral deficits
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Anterolateral spinal cord lesions

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  • contralateral deficits
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Motor system pathways

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  • Anterior corticospinal tract
  • lateral cortiocospinal
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Hypotonicity vs hypertonicity

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describing resting tone

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Spasticity

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  • type of hypertonia that is velocity dependent
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Dysmetria

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  • dysfunction with moving certain distance
  • proximation
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Dysdiadochokinesia

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-Inability to preform rapid reciprocal movement
- coordination

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Ataxia vs apraxia

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  • (1). Difficulty controlling movement
  • (2). difficulty initiating movement
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Gaze-evoked nystagmus

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  • eyes don’t stop after rapid head movement don’t stop once head stops
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  1. Aphasia
  2. Agnosia
  3. dysarthria
  4. anarthria
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  1. trouble with expression and reception of language
  2. unable to recognize objects/people
  3. trouble generating speech
  4. without speech
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Higher brain function deficits in CNS disorders

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  • language vs speech
  • perception
  • abstract thinking
  • movement
  • adaptive response
  • frontal lobe damage
  • right hemisphere syndrome
  • Alexia: difficulty with reading
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Disorders of consciousness and emotion

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  • Reticular activating system: arousal and attention
  • orbital prefrontal region: selective attention to facial expression
  • limbic system: orbitofrontal cortex, hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, cingulate gyrus, cingulate gyrus,hippocampus
  • amygdala: integrates emotion and context in stress response
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Diagnosis of CNS disorders

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  • clinical localization
  • computed tomography
  • MRI: typical first done
  • fMRI
  • PET
  • DaTSCAN
  • Diffusion Tensor imaging
  • EEG
  • Brainstem auditory evoked potentials
  • transcranial doppler ultrasound
  • near-infrared spectroscopy
  • transcranial magnetic stimulate
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Treatment for CNS disorders

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Pharmacologic:

  • modulate neurotransmitter synthesis, release, reuptake or degradation (can be used to enhanced movement not just mental health)
  • antioxidant therapies to prevent free radicals from penetrating membrane
  • pharmacology for movement disorders
  • antipsychotic and antidepressants
  • opioid analgesics

Stem cells

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Meningitis

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  • inflammation
  • viral aseptic infection vs bacterial infection
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Meningitis: risk factors

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  • immunodeficiency
  • crowded living spaces
  • spleen dysfunction
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Pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis

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  • depends on insulting agent
  • typicall gets into the blood stream and can go throug BBB by way of a WBC
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Clinical manifestations: meningitis

Also what is the only way to diangosis

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  • cardinal signs: headache
  • stiff neck
  • non-balancing rash
  • septicemia
  • red flags signs: cold hands/feet, limb pain; pale mottled skin
  • nausea and vomiting
  • lumbar puncture= spinal tap for diagnosis
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Treatment: meningitis

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  • bacterial Meningitis: antimicrobials and steroids
  • viral meningitis
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Encephalitis:

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  • acute inflammatory disease of the parenchyma or tissue of the brain
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causes of encephalitis

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  • direct viral invasion or hypersensitivity initiated by a virus herpes simplex virus
  • autoimmune
  • bacterial
  • insects bites
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Pathogenesis of encephalitis

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  • destruction of cell membrane
  • gliosis and scarring
  • white matter destruction
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Clinical manifestations: encephalitis

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  • headahce, weakness, UMN signs
  • can combine with meningitis and become meningoencephalitis
  • altered mental status
  • movement disorders
  • ataxia
  • cranial nerve defects
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Medical management: encephalitis

Diagnosis, treament,

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  • Dx: IgM antibodies in serum or CSF
  • Treatment: varies with the infectious agent; antiviral if causes by herpes simplex virus
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Brain abscess

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  • uncommon
  • focal infection
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brain abscess: risk factors

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  • compromised immune system receiving steroid
  • immunosuppressants or cytotoxic chemotherapy
  • systemic illness such as HIV infections
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Clinical manifestations; brain abscess

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  • headache, disturbed consciousness, and fever
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Zika

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  • RNA virus transmitted by specific mosquito bite
  • usually asymptomatic
  • fever, rash, jt pain, conjunctivitis
  • affects fetus
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  • Prions disease
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  • genetic or acquired
  • creutzfeld-joakob disease
  • 50-80 years old
  • cognitive impairment/confusion/movement disorders
  • fatal
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Degenerative CNS disorders

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  • ALS - amyotrophic lateral scleosis
  • dementia
  • huntington disease
  • MS
  • parkinson
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ALS: classifications

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  • pseudobulbar
  • progressive bulbar palsy
  • primary lateral sclerosis
  • progressive spinal muscular atrophy

*bulbar = cranial nerve

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ALS symtpoms

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  • depend on whether it is UMN or LMN
  • typically musucle weakness and atrophy
  • extremities affected first with progression to respiratory muscles
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Types of dementia

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  • alzheimers disease
  • lewy body dementia
  • vascular dementia
  • Frontotemportal disorder
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Dementia

Alzheimers disease

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  • memory loss
  • language problems
  • unpredictable behavior
  • amyloid plaques
  • tau tangles
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Dementia

Lewy Body Dementia

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  • difficulty with thinkng, movement, behavior, mood
  • abnormal deposits of a protein (alpha-synuclein)
  • affects acetylcholine and dopamine in the brain
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Dementia

  • Vascular dementia
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  • disruption in blood flow
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Dementia

Frontotemporal disorder

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  • when nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain are lost
  • behaviors
  • emotions
  • communication
  • walking
  • rare and affects younger people (45-64)
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Huntington disease

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  • progressive genetic disorder
  • usually beginning in 30s-40s
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huntington’s disease

signs and symtoms

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  • movement: choreic movement (ataxic) and rigid/difficulty moving
  • cognition: may be detected before motor deficits
  • psychiatric disorders
  • atrophy of caudate nucleus and putamen of basal ganglia
  • white matter deterioation in frontal lobe
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Multiple sclerosis

-what causes it, what occurs, when is it dx, and risk facotrs

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  • scleotic plaques throught the brain and spinal cord
  • inflammation, demyleination, axon loss and gliosis
  • typically dx between 20-50 years
  • infection from epstein-barr, herpes, immune response, environment, genetics
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Symptoms of MS`

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  • sensory
  • motor
  • bowel
  • bladder
  • affect
  • coordintion
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Treatment of MS

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  • disease modifying agents
  • immunomodulating/immunosupressives
  • monoclonal antibodies
  • steriods
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Parkinson disease

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  • degeneration of basal ganglia neurons
  • stop producing dopamine (symptoms occur when it is down 70-80%)
  • disrupts communication with cortex
  • chronic, progresisve disease
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hallmark traits of parkinsons

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  • rigidity
  • tremor
  • bradykinesia
  • postural instability
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risk factors for parkinsons

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  • genetic
  • toxic or infectious exposures

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