Neurological Disorders
This type of disease is caused by bacterial, viral, or parasitic pathogens (e.g., encephalitis, meningitis).
What is an inflammatory disease?
A neuroimaging technique that allows SLPs to analyze seizure activity by focusing on electrical activity as opposed to structural damage of the brain.
What is an EEG?
What does the stripping of myelin from the nerve tracts lead to?
What is muscle weakness?
This anatomical plan cuts the body or a specific anatomical structure into left and right portions
What is the sagittal plane?
This imaging technique is cheap, fast, and widely available but uses x-rays and does not show soft tissue well.
What is CT?
This type of disorder is known to “come and go” and is non-chronic.
What is an episodic or paroxysmal disorder?
This neuroimaging technique takes X-rays from different angles to create images of the body that are cross-sectional.
What is a Computed Tomography (CT) scan?
Epilepsy, headaches, stroke, and sleep disorders make up the four general conditions found under what category?
What are episodic and paroxysmal disorders?
This directional term means “toward the belly."
What is anterior?
This scan gives very clear pictures of soft tissue and does not use x-rays, but it can cause claustrophobia and is unsafe with metal implants.
What is MRI?
This brain network, which includes the basal ganglia, regulates movement.
What is the extrapyramidal system?
This neuroimaging technique uses radio waves in combination with magnetic fields to create detailed, radiation-free images of tissues and organs.
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)?
Bell's palsy is an example of what category?
What is the nerve, nerve root, and plexus disorders category?
This directional term is the farthest from a limb’s attachment.
What is distal?
This test is best for seeing blood vessels but is invasive and uses radiation.
What is angiography?
This type of paralytic condition occurs due to brain injury before or at birth and causes difficulties in muscle tone and posture.
What is cerebral palsy?
This neuroimaging technique uses a contrast dye that is injected into the blood vessels in order to analyze both veins and arteries on an X-ray image.
What is angiography?
What are neurological diseases caused by bacterial, viral, or parasitic pathogens?
What are inflammatory diseases?
This anatomical plan cuts the body or a specific anatomical structure into top and bottom portions.
What is the transverse plane?
This method shows brain function over time and is low cost, but cannot show deep brain structures well.
What is EEG?
This type of disorder affects the facial nerve, causing paralysis on one side of the face.
What is Bell’s Palsy?
This neuroimaging technique analyzes metabolic activity by using a radioactive tracer.
What is Position Emission Tomography (PET)?
The progressive, hereditary disorder known as Huntington's disease is an example of a condition in this category.
What are systematic atrophies primarily affecting the central nervous system?
This anatomical plan divides the body or a specific anatomical structure into anterior and posterior portions.
What is the coronal plane?
This imaging gives both structural and functional brain data without injections or x-rays, but it is not common in clinics.
What is fMRI?