The Brain + Spinal Cord
Procedures + Specialties
Neurology
Mental Health
Miscellaneous
100
a combining form for the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord
What is MENING/O?
100
the process of recording electrical brain activity
What is an ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY?
100
a disorder characterized by tremors and shuffing with the inability to control muscle movements
What is PARKINSON'S DISEASE?
100
the inability to develop normal social relationships
What is AUSTISM?
100
burning pain to a nerve
What is CAUSALGIA?
200
inflammation of the spinal cord
What is MYELITIS?
200
a medication used to create the absence of sensation or feeling
What is an ANESTHETIC?
200
a condition of the deterioration of the brain structure that affects memory
What is ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE?
200
a sense perception without external stimuli (ie: hearing voices)
What is a HALLUCINATION?
200
the general decline of mental abilities
What is DEMENTIA?
300
inflammation of the brain
What is a ENCEPHALITIS?
300
DAILY DOUBLE! specialist of the mind who can prescribe medications
What is a PSYCHIATRIST?
300
the tingling/prickling/burning feeling
What is PARESTHESIA?
300
DAILY DOUBLE! the fear of heights
What is a ACROPHOBIA?
300
head pain with nausea, vomiting and light sensitivity
What is a MIGRAINE HEADACHE?
400
bruising of the brain
What is a CONTUSION?
400
a condition the occurs from a leak/rupture of a blood vessel in the brain; not detected by Carotid Ultrasonography
What is a HEMORRHAGIC STROKE?
400
an autoimmune disorder where the myelin sheath of nerve fibers are damaged
What is a MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS?
400
an anxiety disorder that compels individuals to perform rituals in order to ease their obsessions
What is OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER?
400
an autoimmune disorder that causes temporary paralysis when the myelin sheath is inflamed
What is GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME?
500
condition of excessive cerebrospinal fluid in the brain
What is HYDROCEPHALUS?
500
uses sound waves to create a 3d picture to detect build-up of plaque in the arteries that feed the brain
What is a CAROTID ULTRASONOGRAPHY?
500
fainting
What is SYNCOPE?
500
madness related to hair-pulling
What is TRICHOTILLOMANIA?
500
sudden/brief pain attacks to one side of the face
What is TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA?
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