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Nervous System Flashcards

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Central Nervous System

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Brain
Spinal cord

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Peripheral Nervous Systen

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Cranial nerves
Spinal nerves

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Sensory nerves

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Messages toward brain; afferent

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Motor Nerves

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From the brain; efferent

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Automatic Nervous System

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Nervous system to organs; sympathetic and parasympathetic

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Sympathetic

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Fight or flight

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Parasympathetic

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Nerve balance

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Neuron

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Electrical impulse

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Parts of a Neuron

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  1. Dendrites- tree/branching
  2. Cell body
  3. Nucleus
  4. Axon- cord-like
  5. Myelin sheath (wraps around axon)
  6. Terminal end fibers
  7. Synapse (neurotransmitters: dopamine, epinephrine, serotonin)
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Glia Cells

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Maintain health of nervous system; 4 types of

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Astrocytes

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BBB; protect brain from harmful substances

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Microglia

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Protect neurons when’s there’s inflammation

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Oligdendroglia

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Protect dendrites and sheath

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Ependymal

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Ependym/o- wrapping

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Frontal lobe

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Thought process, behavior, personality, and emotion

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Parietal

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Sensations, vision, spatial perception

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Occipital

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Vision

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Temporal

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Hearing, understanding, speech/language

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Gyri

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Folds in the brain

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Sulci

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Deep grooves

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Corpus callosum

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Holds hemispheres together

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CSF

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Cerebral spinal fluid

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Meninges

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Viral, bacterial, fungal (meningitis)

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Cerebellum

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Voluntary movement and balance

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Thalamus

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Consciousness, learning, and memory. Information station.

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Hypothalamus

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Below thalamus
Body temp., sleep, appetite, sex, and emotion
Regulates hormones
Monitors sympathetic and parasympathetic

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27
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Pons (bridge)

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Houses nerves for face and eyes

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Midbrain

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Top

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Medulla oblongata

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Connects spinal cord to brain, regulates blood vessels, heart, respiratory, and emesis

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Myelin

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Fatty insulation for nerve cells

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Ganglion

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Collection of nerve cells

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Para/plegic

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Waist down

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Quadr/o/plegic

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Neck down

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Hemi/plegia

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Half paralyzed

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Meninges

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Membranes

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Dura mater

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Hard mother, first membrane

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Subdural Space

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Underneath dura

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Arachnoid membrane

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Webbing

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Subarachnoid space

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Pia mater

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Soft mother

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Parenchyma

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Distinguishing tissue of any organ or system

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Lept/o

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Thin/slender

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Pont/o

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Pons

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Thec/o

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Sheath/meninges

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Alges/o

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Algesia; sensitivity to pain

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Caus/o

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Burning

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Comat/o

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Coma

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-esthenia

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Feeling

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Kines/o

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Movement

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-lepsy

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Seizure

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-paresis ~ plagia

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Paralysis

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-phasia

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Speech

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-sthenia

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Strength

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Syncop/o

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Cut off

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Radical/o

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Nerve root

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Hydrocephalus

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Water on the brain

57
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Spina bifida

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Mening/o/cele- herniation of the membrane; occulta- hidden

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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ALS; loss of mobility and communication

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Myasthenia gravis

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Weakness of muscles and rapid fatigue

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Palsy

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Paralysis

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Edema

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Swelling

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Thrombotic

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Blood clot in the arteries leaving the brain

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Embolic

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Dislodge blood clot, that travels to cerebral arteries

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Hemorrhagic

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Blood vessel, breaks, and bleeding occurs

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Aneurysm

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Weakened area in an artery

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FAST

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Face, arm, smile, time

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Angiogram

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Visualization of the vessel in the brain (stoke)

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EEG

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Electroencephalograph; recording of the electrical impulses of the brain (seizure)

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CT

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Computed tomography

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ALS

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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BBB

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Blood brain barrier

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CVA

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Cerebrovascular accident

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LP

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Lumbar puncture, spinal tap

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TBI

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Traumatic brain injury

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TIA

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Transient ischemic attack

ALH-140 (7 decks)

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