Defining Neurology
How a neuron functions
What is neurophysiology?
This splits a structure into front and back.
What is frontal or coronal?
This system is ”rest and digest”, calms and relaxes the body by slowing the heart and lowering blood pressure
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
These cranial nerves are important to speech/language/hearing.
What are cranial nerves V Trigeminal, VII Facial, VIII Auditory, IX Glossopharyngeal, X Vagus, XII Hypoglossal
These are discoordinated, clumsy movements
What is ataxia?
The study of nervous system diseases.
what is neuropathology
This splits the structure into upper and lower
What is transverse or horizontal?
This makes up the central nervous system.
What is the brain and spinal cord?
These cranial nerves originate from the midbrain.
What are oculomotor and trochlear?
Slurred or scanning speech due to cerebellar damage
What is ataxic dysarthria
an infection of the membranes that surround the brain
and spinal cord
What is meningitis?
This splits a structure into left and right
What is sagittal or lateral?
This makes up the peripheral nervous system
What are the cranial nerves and spinal nerves?
These cranial nerves originate from the pons.
What are Trigeminal, Abducens, and Facial?
The inability to perform rapid, alternating movements of the hand or mouth
What is dysdiadochokinesia?
A neurological disorder that occurs when the body attacks the neuromuscular junction inhibiting the chemical needed for the muscles to contract.
What is myasthenia gravis?
Provides communication and structural link between the brain and spinal cord.
What is the brain stem?
The terminology that means you are looking at the patient as if you are looking at the patient from the top of the person’s head
What is anatomical orientation?
These cranial nerves originate from the pons/medulla.
What are the Auditory VIII and glossopharyngeal IX
Another name for the cerebellum.
What is "little brain"?
the number of new cases per year in a
given population AND the total number of current cases in a given population at a point in a time
What is incidence and prevalence?
This is the fight or flight system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system
The terminology that means you are looking at the
person as if you are looking at them from their feet
What is clinical orientation?
These cranial nerves originate from the medulla
What are the X Vagus, XI Accessory, and XII Hypoglossal?
These are linguistic functions of the cerebellum
What is the perception of speech/language, verbal working memory, verbal fluency, grammar processing, writing, and reading?