Neurological Disorders

Question 1

Seizure disorder show evidence to damage of what?

Answer 1

Hippocampus

Question 2

Seizure is too much what?

Answer 2

Excitement, glutamate

Question 3

How to treat seizures?

Answer 3

GABA agonists

Question 4

What happens when alcoholics stop drinking?

Answer 4

sudden release from the inhibiting effects of the alcohol leaves the brain in a hyperexcitable condition and can be fatal.

Question 5

GABA

Answer 5

inhibitory

Question 6

Glutamate

Answer 6

Excitement

Question 7

Example of closed head injury:

Answer 7

concussion

Question 8

Example of focal brain injury:

Answer 8

phinneas gage injury

Question 9

Example of diffuse hypoxic brain injury:

Answer 9

loss of oxygen to brain

Question 10

Parkinson’s disease is caused by what?

Answer 10

degeneration of the dopamine-secreting neurons of the substantia nigra that send axons to the basal ganglia.

Question 11

Symptoms of parkinson’s disease:

Answer 11

muscular rigidity, slowness of movement, a resting tremor, and postural instability

Question 12

Treatment of parkinson’s:

Answer 12

1. The precursor to dopamine, L-Dopa

2. Deep Brain Stimulation

Question 13

An autoimmune disease where a person’s immune system destroys the ______________ around axons.

Answer 13

Myelin

Question 14

Symptoms of MS:

Answer 14

Any neurological problem

Question 15

A mass of cells whose growth is uncontrolled and serves no useful function.

Answer 15

Tumor

Question 16

a tumor with no distinct border and can metastasize.

Answer 16

Malignant

Question 17

a tumor with a distinct border that cannot metastasize.

Answer 17

Benign

Question 18

shedding cells that can travel through the blood and cause tumor growth in other parts of the body.

Answer 18

Metastasize