Health Disparities
T/F: African Americans have the highest rates of hypertension.
True
What structures make up the CNS (Central Nervous System)?
Brain and Spinal Cord
What is the name of cranial nerve V (5)?
Trigeminal
T/F: An etiology is when the Deficits or symptoms that are present are of an unknown or obscure origin
False, idiopathic etiology
T/F: a severe seizure is considered a TBI
False; TBIs occur with an external force
Persons from ________ groups are significantly less likely than the rest of the population to have health insurance.
racial and ethnic minority
Unmyelinated neurons
The Accessory nerve is cranial nerve ____ (what number?).
XI (11)
Stroke is also know as a ______.
cerebrovascular accident
In a Anoxic/hypoxic brain injury, is the damage typically acute or diffuse?
Diffuse
The combination of diabetes and hypertension significantly increases the risks for what 2 conditions?
stroke and dementia
What is the purpose of gyri and sulci?
Folded tissues allow more neural tissue to be packed into a smaller space (Increase surface area of the brain)
Which nerve innervates the fine and gross motor movements of the tongue?
CN XII (12); Hypoglossal
Name a symptom of a stroke.
Sudden weakness or numbness of the face, arm or leg, most often on one side of the body; Confusion; Difficulty speaking or understanding speech; Difficulty seeing with one or both eyes ; Difficulty walking ; Dizziness; Loss of balance or coordination ; Severe headache with no known cause ; Fainting or unconsciousness.
Encephalitis is Acute infection and inflammation of the_______.
brain or spinal cord
Which racial/ethnic group has the highest rates of risk factors for cardiovascular disease?
Native Americans
Which part of the brain moves experiences from short term memory into long-term memory?
hippocampus
What is the vagus nerve's role as it relates to vocal fold function?
innervate muscles for adduction and abduction of vocal folds
What is the primary difference between an ischemic stroke and a hemorrhagic stroke?
Ischemic: blood flow is obstructed
Hemorrhagic: bleeding in the brain
Name the 3 stage of a seizure in order.
Aura, Ictus, and Postictus
Name 2 factors for health disparities
•Long-standing national history of poverty
•Discrimination in access to health care
•Poor or nonexistent medical care early in life among ethnic subgroups
•Differences in collective wealth within neighborhoods in which affected populations live
•Poor living and working situations.
• Lack of health insurance
• And more
List two features/functions of the thalamus.
• Sits on top of brainstem, under the cerebral hemispheres
• Functions, in part, as a sensory relay station
• Receives afferent sensory information being transmitted from body and directs it to the appropriate part of the brain for processing
• Receives the motor plans the cerebellum has checked for errors and sends the refined plans for motor execution
Name this nerve:
Mixed sensory-motor nerve, motor info to the face and sensory (taste) info from anterior ⅔ of the tongue.
CN XII (7), Facial
Aneurysms typically occur where in the brain?
Circle of Willis
Describe an embolic stroke.
Occurs when: Embolus (a mass in the circulatory system) lodges within a blood vessel inside the brain and Cuts off blood circulation to a part of the brain