Brain & CNS Structures
This structure slows the passage or prevents some drugs and disease-causing organisms from entering the CNS.
What is the blood-brain barrier (BBB)?
– A condition of abnormal accumulation of fluid in the ventricles of the brain.
What is hydrocephalus?
The spinal cord extends from the medulla oblongata to about the ____ vertebra.
What is the second lumbar?
A procedure to aspirate cerebrospinal fluid from the lumbar subarachnoid space.
What is a lumbar puncture (LP)?
___ have the ability to hunt for microorganisms if brain tissue is inflamed or damaged.
What are microglia?
The valleys of the folds in the cerebrum are called this.
What are sulci?
This inherited disorder manifests in adulthood as a progressive loss of neural control, uncontrollable jerking movements, and dementia.
What is Huntington chorea?
This structure is a bundle of nerve roots extending below the spinal cord.
What is the cauda equina?
X-ray of the cerebral arteries is called this.
What is cerebral angiography?
What carries impulses to the cell body.
What are dendrites
This structure is composed of the thalamus and hypothalamus.
What is the diencephalon?
A degenerative, fatal disease of the motor neurons causing progressive muscle weakness and atrophy
What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?
How many spinal nerves are in the human body?
What is 31?
A brain scan that can detect functional activity is known as this.
What is a PET scan?
he sympathetic nervous system is sometimes called this.
What is the “fight or flight” system?
he hemispheres of the cerebrum are connected by this.
What is the corpus callosum?
A neurodegenerative disease characterized by destruction of myelin sheaths in the CNS.
What is multiple sclerosis (MS)?
Which part of the nervous system contains dermatomes?
What is the PNS?
he acronym ACE, used in neurology assessments, stands for this.
What is Acute Concussion Evaluation?
Which lobe of the cerebrum processes visual information?
What is the occipital lobe?
How many protective membrane layers surround the brain and spinal cord?
What is 4?
Temporary paralysis of the facial nerve is known as this.
What is Bell’s palsy?
Part of the nervous system responsible for voluntary movement.
What is the SNS (somatic nervous system)?
Cerebrospinal fluid can be found between the dura mater and arachnoid mater.
What is Arachnoid mater and Pia mater.
Which lobe of the cerebrum is responsible for voluntary movement and decision making?
What is the frontal lobe?