Neural Development
Cell death produced by activation of a cell's genetic program for suicide is called _________
What is apoptosis?
The brain grows this much between birth and age 6
What is 4x (it quadruples in size)?
The symptoms of fever, headache, vomiting, and a stiff neck may indicate you have _________
What is meningitis?
Symptoms such as memory loss, confusion, irritability, headaches, impulse control problems, and depression after years of mild traumatic brain injuries may be a sign of this
What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy?
Tremor at rest, muscular rigidity, and slowness of voluntary movements are symptoms of ________
What is Parkinson's Disease?
The early stages of Alzheimer's Disease are characterized by this
What is memory decline?
The last part of the brain to achieve full myelination is the _______ cortex
What is the frontal cortex?
This is the process in which immature neurons travel to their destination
What is migration?
When there is a loss of consciousness after a blow to the head and there is no evidence of damage on a brain scan, the diagnosis is a ________
What is a concussion?
There are two kinds of strokes: _______ is when an artery is obstructed, and _______ is when an artery is ruptured.
What is ischemia and hemorrhage?
What percentage of people carrying the Huntington gene develop the disorder?
What is 100%?
This is a premonition or warning sign that a person with epilepsy may experience before a seizure
What is an aura?
In most mammals, neurogenesis occurs in the ________ and the ___________
What are the hippocampus and olfactory bulbs?
Rats raised in enriched environments have these changes in their brains
What are thicker cortex, more synapses, and more dendrites?
Much of the brain damage caused by a stroke takes 1 to 2 _____ to develop
What is 1 to 2 days?
These things from the environment can accumulate in your brain over time, and cause damage to neurons and capillaries?
What are neurotoxins (like lead)
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
These features are seen in the brains of people with Alzheimer's.
What are amyloid plaques and tau tangles?
Which two processes take approximately 2 decades after birth to complete?
What are myelination and synaptogenesis?
The process in which immature neurons grow their axon and dendrites that are characteristic of the kind of neuron they need to become is called
What is differentiation?
A tumor that is encapsulated is likely to be _______
What is benign?
Administering tPA, cooling the brain, and using cannabis are treatments that are currently used or have shown promising results in clinical trials for this diagnosis
What is a stroke?
Simple and Complex are the two major categories of __________
What are focal seizures?
Motor symptoms (trouble walking), sensory symptoms (pain), and cognitive symptoms (trouble with attention) are typical of this disorder
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Most of the brain growth between birth and age 6 comes from these two processes
What are synaptogenesis and myelination?
The majority of neurons that will form the adult brain have been created and are in their proper place by this month in prenatal development
What is the 7th month?
This is a result of repeated mild traumatic brain injuries, and is characterized by tau pathology and brain atrophy
What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy?
Brain damage following stroke is predominantly caused by excessive _______ release
What is glutamate?
Parkinson's disease is a degeneration of neurons in the __________ that make __________
What are "substantia nigra" and "dopamine"?
_______ seizures involve part of the brain in an area of cortex that serves functions like speech or memory, whereas _______ seizures involve the whole brain and loss of consciousness
What are complex and tonic-clonic?