Disorders And Diseases

Question 1

Acquired deficits

Answer 1

Neuropsychological syndromes seen after brain damage

Question 2

Epilepsy

Answer 2

Uncontrolled electrical discharge is brain

Rapidly spreads to all regions, though often begins lateralised

Causes:

Could be brain damage at birth
Could represent imbalance in excitatory and inhibitory pathways of brain

Question 3

Cerebro-vascular disorders

Answer 3

Leas to localized loss of brain’s blood supply

I.e. Strokes and cerebral hemorrhages

Question 4

Alexia with agraphia

Answer 4

Inability to read or write

Question 5

Global aphasia

Answer 5

Problems with both production (speech) and comprehension

Broca’s and Wernicke’s area both destroyed

Question 6

Schizophrenia

Answer 6

Biological disorder

Drugs only suppress

 - block SA receptors (DA antagonist)
 - thus, decreases DA neurotransmissions in brain 
 - thus, induces Parkinson's line symptoms 

Caused by over activity in DA pathways

Question 7

Alexia

Answer 7

Complete loss of reading

Question 8

Alexia without agraphia

Answer 8

Can write coherently, but cannot read it back

Pure word blindness

Question 9

Parkinson’s Disease

Answer 9

Degeneration of nigro-striatal pathway (a DA pathway)

Don’t know what causes it

James Parkinson