Study Guide (neurological disorders)

Question 1

progressive, decrease in neurotransmitters in the brain, decline in motor function, tremors, medications can slow it down. Gait: Lean forward to start, can’t stop or turn well, shuffle to start

associated with degeneration of the basal ganglia of the brain and a deficiency of the neurotransmitter dopamine

Answer 1

parkinson’s disease

Question 2

Involved - speech, understanding speech, movement, sometimes paralysis in face or arms. PT’s will help them go back to as normal as possible

damage to the brain from interruption of its blood supply

Answer 2

Cerebral vascular accident (CVA)

Question 3

Progressive, no cure, Myelin sheath degrades, involves exacerbations and downhill remissions (downs and ups), effects motor function

progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, whose symptoms may include numbness, impairment of speech and of muscular coordination, blurred vision, and severe fatigue

Answer 3

multiple sclerosis (MS)

Question 4

Progressive, loss of muscle mass, genetic, common in males, usually shows at ages 4 to 5, five varieties, shorter life expectancy, at ages 9 to 10 they’re usually in a wheelchair, respiratory muscle weakness is what kills them

Answer 4

muscular dystrophy

Question 5

concussions are mild versions of these, symptoms depend on area of rain, typically doesn’t heal because it is the brain

Answer 5

traumatic brain injury TBI

Question 6

symptoms depend on the part of the brain, congenital, not progressive

marked by impaired muscle coordination (spastic paralysis) and/or other disabilities, typically caused by damage to the brain before or at birth

Answer 6

cerebral palsy (CP)

Question 7

heart and respiratory conditions, complete or incomplete (complete means it is completely severed, nothing below it works, incomplete means it is not completely severed)

Answer 7

spinal cord injury (SCI)