Brain Damage
Gliomas develop from these types of cells.
What are glial cells?
Difficulty remembering events learned prior to a brain operation.
What is retrograde amnesia?
During human evolution, one major survival threat was the inconsistency of food supplies, making those with a preference for this type of food more likely to survive.
What are high-calorie foods? Fatty & sugary!
Mammals often use this type of system to maintain stability in bodily processes like temperature and blood glucose levels.
What is homeostasis?
The spread of disease from one organ to another.
What is Metastasis?
Explicit memories for the particular events or experiences of one’s life.
What is episodic memory?
This type of agonist has been shown to reduce hunger, eating, and body weight in human patients.
What are serotonin agonists?
This type of degeneration occurs in the segment of an axon closest to the cell body after the axon of a multipolar neuron is cut.
What is retrograde degeneration?
Parkinson’s disease is associated with degeneration of this brain structure.
What is the substantia nigra?
This memory disorder is associated with chronic alcohol consumption.
What is Korsakoff’s syndrome?
Receptors for insulin and leptin are dense in this area of the hypothalamus.
What is the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus?
50% of people carrying the gene involved in this disease will develop it.
What is Huntington's disease?
This area appears to play a special role in memory for spatial locations.
What is the hippocampus?
This is considered to be a hunger peptide.
What is Neuropeptide Y?
This disorder is associated with damage to the myelin of the central nervous system.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
This structure is thought to play a role in memory for the emotional significance of experiences.
What is the amygdala?
This area was once believed to be a satiety center in the brain.
What is the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH)?
Patients with this type of amnesia have difficulty forming explicit long-term memories, but their intellectual functioning is usually preserved.
What is medial temporal lobe amnesia?