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Neurobiology
Anatomy
Disease
Diagnostics
Disease_2
100
Endogenous chemical messengers between neurons
What are neurotransmitters?
100
Larger category made up of the brain and spinal chord
What is the Central Nervous System?
100
Dopamine precursor which is the most common parkinson's treatment
What is L-DOPA?
100
Technique to acquire cerebrospinal fluid
What is lumbar puncture?
100
neurodegenerative genetic disorder that affects muscle coordination and leads to mental decline and behavioral symptoms
What is Huntington's Disease?
200
Type of cell that performs immune functions in the brain
What are microglia?
200
Structure surrounding the brain and spinal chord
What are the meninges?
200
The term for insufficient oxygenation of areas in the brain, often due to lot or hemorrhage
What is Stroke?
200
Machine used to measure electrical activity in the brain
What is an electroencephalogram?
200
Desire to be in constant motion
What is akathisia?
300
The phase when charge of neurons initially increases
What is depolarization?
300
Lobe of the brain responsible for higher thinking
What is the frontal lobe?
300
The main disorder caused by hyper-synchronous electrical activity in the brain
What is epilepsy?
300
Imaging used for tumor diagnosis or examination of blood vessel injury, disease, and complications
What is MRI?
300
Disease causing headaches, seizures and increased inter-cranial pressure.
What is a brain tumor?
400
What proteins maintain the ratio of ions in neurons?
What is the sodium/potassium pump?
400
Lobe of the brain used for comprehending stimuli
What is the temporal lobe?
400
Caused by amyloid beta plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles
What is Alzheimer's Disease
400
Technique involving needle insertion into muscles and the use of recording electrodes.
What is electromyography?
400
Multiple Sclerosis that has spread to the spinal chord
What is Transverse Myelitis?
500
Special gaps in the schwann cells of neurons that allow for saltatory conduction
What are nodes of ranvier?
500
Lobe of the brain where the tumor was removed in the video we watched in class
What is the occipital lobe?
500
A disease associated with dementia, multiple movement disorders, visual hallucinations
What is Lewy Body Disease?
500
The seven main parts of the euro exam
What are mental status, cranial nerves, motor, reflexes, sensory, coordination, and gait
500
Region effected by Parkinson's disease
What are the substantia nigra