Potpourri
A tumor affecting the meninges
What is a Meningioma
Encephal/o, example: anencephaly
What is the Brain
What is Sleep
A form of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. Approximately 200,000 American under the age of 65 are living with this disease.
What is Alzheimers
CVA
What is a Cerebrovascular Accident
Carries impulses toward the cell body
What is a Dendrite
Gli/o, example: Glial
What is Neuroglia
-Mania, example; megalomania
What is an excited state, obsession
A brief, uncontrollable episode of sleep throughout the day
What is Narcolepsy
ALS
What is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
The outermost and toughest of the three maters
What is the Dura mater
Myel/o, example: hematomyelia
What is the Spinal Cord (also bone marrow)
-Phobia, example; photophobia
What is an irrational fear
A neurological tumor composed of Astrocytes
What is an Astrocytoma
TIA
What is a Transient Ischemic Attack
Surgical removal of the ganglions
What is Ganglionectomy
Somn/o, somn/i, example: somnolence
What is Sleep
-Lalia, example: echolalia
What is speech
Inflammation of the brain
What is Encephalitis
NPH
What is Normal PRessure Hydrocephalus
The part of the ANS that reverses the response to stress and restores homeostasis.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Cortic/o
What is the Cerebral cortex, outer portion
-phasia, example; dysphagia
What is speech
A tumor of the neurological cells
What is a Glioma
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
GFD
What is Greutzfeldt-Jakob Disease