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Nervous System Flashcards

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USMLE® Step 1 flashcards
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Frontal Lobe

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emotions and personality

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Parietal Lobe

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math and logic

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Temporal Lobe

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processing spoken word

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Occipital Lobe

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processing visual information

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Meningitis

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Description: inflammation of meninges, membranes covering brain and spinal cord

Symptoms: nuchal rigidity, fever, headache, vomiting

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Hemiplegia

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Description: result of stroke

Symptoms: paralysis on one side of body

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Paraplegia

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Description: result of severing of spinal cord in lower back or sacrum

Symptoms: inability to move legs, may have bowel and bladder dysfunction

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Quadriplegia

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Description: result of severing of spinal cord in the upper thoracic or cervical area

Symptoms: inability to move arms and legs, may have respiratory dysfunction

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Encephalitis

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Description: inflammation of brain

Symptoms: headache, fever, confusion

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Cerebral Vascular Accident (Stroke)

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Description: blockage of a vessel or bleeding into brain prevents oxygen getting to brain tissue

Symptoms: malfunction in the portion of the brain that is deprived of circulation

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Herniated Disc

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Description: protrusion of nucleus pulposis against spinal cord

Symptoms: pain that radiates down leg

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

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deterioration of motor neurons

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Poliomyelitis

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viral infection that leads to weakened muscles

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Transient Ischemic Attack

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brief interludes of confusion that often precede CVA

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Hydrocephalus

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enlargement of head due to accumulated fluid in ventricles of brain

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Expressive Aphasia

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inability to form words

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Receptive Aphasia

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inability to understand what is being said

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Epilepsy

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abnormal electrical activity of brain

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Cerebral Palsy

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damage to brain that causes motor or balance problems

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Intracerebral Hematoma

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accumulation of blood within the brain tissue due to trauma to head or spontaneous rupture of blood vessel

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Concussion

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headache, vomiting, damage to brain tissue due to closed head trauma

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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progressive degeneration thought to be due to plaque and tangles of brain tissue leading to regression of ability to think

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Parkinson’s Disease

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progressive neurological disease with resulting tremors, shuffling gait, and rigidity

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Multi-infarct Dementia

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brain damage from chronic ischemia

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Bell’s Palsy

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temporary facial paralysis caused by virus damaging the VII cranial nerve (facial)

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Trigeminal Neuralgia

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severe spasm of V cranial nerve (trigeminal)

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Olfactory Nerve

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Name: I

Function: carries impulses for smell

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Optic Nerve

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Name: II

Function: carries impulses for sight

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Oculomotor Nerve

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Name: III

Function: controls eye movement

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Trochlear Nerve

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Name: IV

Function: controls eye movement

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Trigeminal Nerve

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Name: V

Function: carries sensation from eye, upper and lower jaw; movement of jaw

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Abducens Nerve

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Name: VI

Function: controls facial expression, controls salivary and tear glands, carries taste

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Facial Nerve

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Name: VII

Function: carries taste, controls facial expression

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Vestibulocochlear Nerve

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Name: VIII

Function: carries hearing and controls equilibrium

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Glossopharyngeal Nerve

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Name: IX

Function: carries taste, controls swallowing and gag

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Vagus Nerve

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Name: X

Function: controls voice box, throat, and digestive juices; longest nerve; goes to abdominal cavity

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Spinal Accessory Nerve

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Name: XI

Function: controls muscles in neck and larynx

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Hypoglossal Nerve

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Name: XII

Function: controls muscles of tongue

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