Alcohol & The Nervous System
One of the most commonly abused drugs in the world today that claims the lives of about 88,000 Americans each year through substance related accidents, disease and criminal behavior
What is alcohol?
Condition, characterized by pain in the lower back and the back thigh, caused by the pinching of the sciatic nerve
What is sciatica?
Disease similar to dementia but more severe and sometimes occurring much earlier in life
What is Alzheimer's disease?
The visible ear structure on the side of the head
What is the auricle?
"Do you want to know how I got these scars?"
What is Batman: The Dark Knight?
Alcohol acts like this on the nervous system, slowing the functions of the neurons that it affects
What is depressant?
Injury, caused by the body being jolted, to the spinal nerves that branch from the spinal cord in the neck
What is whiplash?
Disturbance of the brain caused by physical illness elsewhere in the body
What is acute confusion?
Nerve connecting the nose's sensory receptors to the brain
What is the olfactory nerve?
"If you are justice, please do not lie / What is the price for your blind eye?"
What is Batman (2022)?
This organ, is the only organ that is able to break down alcohol in the body
What is the Liver?
Death of brain tissue caused by internal blockage or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain
What is a stroke?
Disorder in which neurons malfunction and begin to fire together over and over, disrupting ordinary cerebral processing and causing unconciousness
What is epilepsy?
Tube that connects the throat to the middle ear
What is the eustachian tube?
"Hey Blue, I'm watching you"
What is Jurassic World?
The poison that the liver turns alcohol into which is responsible for headaches and nausea
What is acetaldehyde?
Minor brain injury that can cause headaches, disorientation, brief unconsciousness, and amnesia
What is concussion?
What is tetanus?
A coiled tube resembling a snail's shell in the inner ear that detects vibrations and sends them to the brain
What is the cochlea?
" You have a metal arm? That is AWESOME, dude!"
The degeneration and inflammation of nerves
What is neuritis?
Prolonged unconscious state that may not be reversible
What is a coma?
The disorder that results from the slow process of natural nerve cell loss
What is senile dementia?
The vibrations of the eardrum are relayed to the inner ear by these three tiny bones
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
"We are the best kept secret in the galaxy. We monitor, licence and police all alien activity on the Earth. We're your first, last, and only line of defense. We live in secret, we exist in shadow."
What is Men in Black?