Key Terms
WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?
SEIZURES
CRANIAL NERVES
POTPOURRI
100
TRANSMIT NERVE IMPULSES FORM ONE PART OF THE BODY TO THE OTHER
What ARE NEURONS?
100
MUSCLE WEAKNESS AND FATIGUE FOLLOWED BY FASCICULATIONS, FATIGUE, DYSPNEA, MUSCLE WASTING, AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE.
What is AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS)?
100
JERKING, FOLLOWED BY UNCONSCIOUSNESS, TONGUE BITING, INCONTINENCE
What is TONIC-CLONIC
100
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SENSE OF SMELL
What is OLFACTORY NERVE (CRANIAL NERVE I)?
100
PRESSURE NORMALLY EXERTED BY THE CSF THAT CIRCULATES AROUND THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD WITHIN THE CEREBRAL VENTRICLES
What is INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE?
200
ACTIVATES THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE
What is THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
200
PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF COGNITIVE AND INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONS WITHOUT IMPAIRMENT OF PERCEPTION OR CONSCIOUSNESS
What is DEMENTIA?
200
PROLONGED PARTIAL OR GENERALIZED SEIZURE WITHOUT RECOVERY BETWEEN ATTACKS OR A SINGLE SEIZURE LASTING MORE THAN 30 MINUTES
What is STATUS EPILEPTICUS
200
RESPONSIBLE FOR JAW MOVEMENT AND FACIAL SENSATION
What is TRIGEMINAL (CRANIAL NERVE V)
200
USUALLY FOUND ON THE TOP OR THE SIDES OF THE HEAD AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTUSIONS AND INTRACEREBRAL HEMATOMAS
What is SUBDURAL HEMATOMA?
300
CALMS AND RESTORES THE BODY HELPING TO BRING IT BACK TO NORMAL BALANCE
What is THE PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
300
PROGRESSIVE AND SELECTIVE DEGENERATION OF NEURONS IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX AND CERTAIN SUBCORTICAL STRUCTURES. NEUFOBRILLARY TANGLES AND CORTICAL ATROPHY CAN BE EXAMINED DURING AN AUTOPSY
What is ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
300
INVOLVING ONE PART OF THE BRAIN, UNILATERALLY WITHOUT LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
What is SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE?
300
RESPONSIBLE FOR SMOOTH MUSCLES OF THE ABDOMINAL ORGANS
What is VAGUS (CRANIAL NERVE X)?
300
AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER THAT AFFECTS THE TRANSMISSION OF NERVE IMPULSES TO MUSCLES CAUSING UNILATERAL WEAKNESS OF THE FACIAL MUSCLES
What is MYASTHENIA GRAVIS?
400
FORMS A WATERY CUSHION IN AND AROUND THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD, PROTECTING THEM FROM TRAUMA
What is CEREBROSPINAL FLUID (CSF)?
400
BRIEF EPISODE OF REVERSIBLE NEURO DEFECITS DUE TO A TEMPORARY LOSS OF BLOOD SUPPLY TO AN AREA OF THE BRAIN
What is TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK (TIA)
400
UNILATERAL SEIZURE WITH IMPAIRED CONSCIOUSNESS, MAYHAVE AUTOMATISMS
What is PARTIAL COMPLEX SEIZURE?
400
RESPONSIBLE FOR PHARYNX AND LARYNX AND SOUR TASTE
What is GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL (CRANIAL NERVE IX)?
400
ACUTE PARALYSIS OF THE FACIAL CRANIAL NERVE VII
What is BELL'S PALSY?
500
REGULATES VOLUNTARY CONTROL OF SKELETAL MUSCLES
What is THE SOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
500
INFLAMMATION RESULTING IN HEADACHE, FEVER, NUCHAL RIGIDITY, ALTERED MENTAL STATUS
What is MENINGITIS?
500
A PERIOD OF DEEP SLEEP AFTER SEIZURE ACTIVITY
What is POSTICTAL PHASE?
500
RESPONSIBLE FOR STERNOCLEOMASTOID AND UPPER TRAPEZIUS MUSCLES
What is SPINAL ACCESSORY (CRANIAL NERVE XI)?
500
PRESENTED BY MUSCLE STIFFNESS, VIBRATING OR TWITCHING OF MUSCLES, MUSCLE PAIN, INCREASED SWEATING, AND DELAYED MUSCLE RELAXATION
What is ISAAC'S SYNDROME?