Alcohol
What is the Liver?
A disease characterized by the formation of scar tissue in the white matter of the CNS.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
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A part of the eye consisting of the retina, optic disc, macula, fovea, and posterior pole.
What is the Fundus?
The main root of the neuron that can be meters long.
What is the axon?
A patient who suffers from this disease experiences difficulty forming complete sentences but understands spoken and written language well.
What is Broca's Aphasia?
This neurotransmitter decreases action potentials by hyperpolarizing neurons in the brain.
What is GABA?
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A type of white blood cell that is invaded by HIV.
What are Macrophages?
This assessment is completed by asking the patient to stick their tongue out.
What is the assessment for the Hypoglossal Nerve?
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The system that will not regrow or regenerate after damage.
What is the Central Nervous System?
A chronic user of this substance experiences signs of dysphoria including apathy, fatigue, and sadness.
What are opioids?
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A set of symptoms that occur when a person stops or reduces their use of a
substance to which they have developed a dependence, can include headaches, tremours and even seizures.
What is withdrawal?
The grade of tumour characterized as malignant, fast growing, and high likelihood of recurrence.
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A set of symptoms including disequilibrium, hearing impairment, disorientation in space, and possible deafness.
What symptoms will a patient with damage to their vestibulocochlear nerve experience?
The brain matter that consists of axons and their fatty myelin.
What is white matter?
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Damage in this area of the brain causes a patient to experience seizures, difficulty with delayed recall, and weakness in the left side of the body.
What is the right central area of the cortex?
This enzyme is responsible for the initial metabolism of alcohol in the body.
What is Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH)?
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An inability to make sequences of movements resulting from the disconnection of motor areas from sensory area.
What is Apraxia?
An assessment that is done by placing a catheter into the groin area in the femoral artery to examine blood vessels in the head and the neck.
What is a Cerebral Angiogram?
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The nervous system division comprised of cranial nerves and the brain which transmits incoming sensory information.
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
A patient in a coma after a brain injury likely has damage to this structure responsible for wakefulness.
What is the reticular formation?
This newer imaging technique reveals microstructural abnormalities and myelin degradation in white matter due to chronic alcohol use.
What is Diffusion Tensor Imaging?
The glial cells that form myelin on CNS axons and are damaged by multiple sclerosis.
What are oligodendrocytes?
This disease causes the inability to shrug the shoulders and rotate the head.
What is 11th Nerve Palsy?
The neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord which project to facial and body muscles to produce movement.
What are motor neurons?
The type of stroke resultant of deficient blood flow to the brain which kills brain cells due to functional constriction of a vessel by a clot.
What is Ischemia?