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These are the two main parts of the nervous system.
What are the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS)?
This occurs when the blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked or a blood vessel leaks or ruptures within the brain.
What is a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) also known as a stroke?
A progressive, incurable disease that causes a section of the brain to degenerate.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
This is a last resort drug for the treatment of neuropathic pain.
What are Opioids?
This medication class reduces nerve inflammation.
What are Corticosteroids?
The Central Nervous System (CNS) consists of these two parts of the body.
What is the Brain and Spinal Cord?
This occurs as a result of a temporary lack of blood supply to the brain.
What is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
A disease causing tangled nerve fibers and protein deposits to form in the brain, eventually causing dementia
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Fluoxetine, an SNRI is often used to treat this.
What is Anxiety?
This medication class regulates the immune system.
What are immunomodulatory agents?
The Peripheral Nervous System consist of these.
What are the nerves throughout the body?
This is a brain disorder that results from a disruption in normal electrical impulses in the brain, which causes repeated seizures. It may not have a known cause.
What is Epilepsy?
This condition may be treated with a cholinesterase inhibitor.
What is Myasthenia Gravis (MG)?
These drugs may be ordered after removal of a cataract to reduce post-surgery inflammation
What are NSAIDs?
This benzodiazepine drug is used to treat epilepsy.
What is Diazepam?
These body parts are considered part of the nervous system because they receive impulses from the environment.
What are the major sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin)?
This is a progressive disease that affects the central nervous system.
What is Multiple Sclerosis MS?
Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is caused by a breakdown in communication between these two systems.
What is the nervous and musculoskeletal systems?
The purpose of a cerumenolytic is to do this.
What is soften earwax for removal?
This class of drugs helps to ease the tremors an involuntary movements relate to Parkinson's disease.
What are Anticholinergic agents?
Slowed responses and reflexes, decreased sensitivity of nerve endings in the skin and short-term memory loss are all signs of this.
What is normal changes of aging?
Neuropathic pain is caused by either of these.
What is disease or damage to the nervous system?
FAST helps to remember the signs of this.
BONUS: What does FAST stand for
What is a stroke?
BONUS: Face, Arms, Speech & Time
An Alpha-2 adrenergic agonist drug does this for treatment of glaucoma.
What is reduce the production of eye fluid?
This boxed warning is on both first and second generation antipsychotic medications used for treating psychotic disorders.
What is "increased death risk to elderly patients with dementia,"?