Multiple Sclerosis
What is scarring, white patches?
Over time, a person’s brain undergoes irreversible, progressive degeneration that impairs his or her memory and reasoning. This is ___.
What is dementia?
Strokes cause brain damage by depriving neurons of this.
What is oxygen?
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?
The type of condition that MS is, meaning the CNS attacks itself
What is autoimmune?
The two possible biomarkers of AD
amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles
Brain tumors that originate elsewhere and spread to the brain.
What are metastatic brain tumors?
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?
The part of the neuron that MS attacks
What is the myelin sheath?
The gene that causes early-onset Alzheimer's in many children with Down Syndrome
APP (amyloid precursor protein)
Repeated TBIs can cause this condition.
What is CTE?
The sensory relay station.
What is the thalamus?
The lobe in which the olfactory cortex is located.
What is the temporal lobe?
Important symptoms of MS (name as many as you can)
What is numbness, clumsiness, blurred vision, slurred speech, weakness, pain, loss of coordination, uncontrollable tremors, loss of bladder control, memory loss, depression, and fatigue
The normal function of tau protein in neurons
Structure of cellular skeleton
The kind of stroke caused by a blockage in a blood vessel that causes lack of blood flow to affected areas.
What is ischemic stroke?
The name of the all-or-nothing electrical impulse transmitted by neurons.
The receptors that respond to pain
What are nociceptors?
The average age at which MS is diagnosed.
What is 20-40 years?
The neurotransmitter important for learning and memory that many Alzheimer's treatments try to increase the available amount of in the brain.
acetylcholine
The neurotransmitter of which toxic amounts are released by glioblastomas.
What is glutamate?
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?