Tumors
Brain tumors that originate in the brain
What are primary brain tumors?
The expansion for TBI
An interruption in blood flow to the brain due to a ruptured blood vessel or a blood clot.
What is a stroke?
The names for the ridges and grooves in the cerebral cortex.
The lobe in which the primary visual cortex is located.
What is the occipital lobe?
Brain tumors that originate elsewhere and spread to the brain.
What are metastatic brain tumors?
The expansion for SCI
What is Spinal Cord Injury?
Strokes cause brain damage by depriving neurons of this.
What is oxygen?
The part of the brain that controls memory
What is the hippocampus?
The name of one of the cranial nerves that transmits taste information.
What is facial, glossopharyngeal, or vagus?
If a tumor can be accessed without injuring more brain tissue, this is the first step in treatment.
What is surgery?
A mild TBI.
What is a concussion?
This kind of medication is the standard stroke treatment
The sensory relay station.
What is the thalamus?
The lobe in which the olfactory cortex is located.
What is the temporal lobe?
The most common form of brain cancer
What is glioblastoma?
Repeated TBIs can cause this condition.
The general term for a blockage in a blood vessel that causes lack of blood flow to affected areas.
What is ischemia?
The name of the all-or-nothing electrical impulse transmitted by neurons.
The receptors that respond to pain
What are nociceptors?
What is glutamate?
What is methylprednisolone?
This kind of stroke is caused by a ruptured blood vessel.
What is hemorrhagic stroke?
The neurotransmitter that is used in the mesolimbic pathway of the brain (this pathway controls reward systems)
Another name for the eardrum
What is the tympanic membrane?