Biological Psychology Chapter 14

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violent sequence of uncontrollable muscular movements caused by a seizure

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Convulsions

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A seizure that begins at a FOCUS and remains localized, not generalizing to the rest of the brain

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PARTIAL seizure

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Type of seizure disorder characterized by periods of inattention which are not subsequently remembered; also called a PETIT MAL seizure

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Absence

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A cerebrovascular accident caused by the rupture of a cerebral blood vessel

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Hemorrhagic stroke

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A generalized tonic-chlonic seizure that results in a convulsion

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Grand mal

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A cerebrovascular accident caused by occlusion of a blood vessel

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Obstructive Stroke

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Seizure that involves most of the brain as opposed to a localized area

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GENERALIZED seizure

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the interruption of the blood supply to a region of the body

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Ischemia

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A condition in which a patient undergoes a series of seizures without regaining consciousness

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STATUS EPILEPTICUS

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Seizure that starts from a focus, remains localized, but does not produce loss of consciousness

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Simple partial seizure

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Blood clot that forms within a blood vessel, which may occlude it

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Thrombus

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The phase of a grand mal seizure in which the patient shows rhythmic jerking movements

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CLONIC phase

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a peice of matter such as a blood clot, fat, or bacterial debris that dislodges from its site of origin and occludes an artery;

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Embolus

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seizure that starts from a focus and remains localized and produces a loss of consciousness

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Complex Partial Seizure

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hereditary disorder caused by the absence of an enzyme that converts phenylalanine to tyrosine

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Phenyketonuria

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found in the nigrostriatal neurons in people with Parkinsons disease

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Lewy Body

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the first phase of a grand mal seizure in which all of the patients skeletal muscles are contracted

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The TONIC phase

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heritable fatal METABOLIC STORAGE disorder; lack of enzymes in lysosomes causes accumulation of waste and produces swelling of cells of the brain

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Tay-Sachs Disease

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Said of a genetic disorder caused by a dominant mutation that involves a faulty gene that produces a protein with toxic effects

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Toxic Gain of Function

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disorder caused by the presence of an extra twenty first chromosome

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Down syndrome

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Contagious brain disease whose degenerative process gives the brain a SPONGELIKE appearance; caused by accumulation of misfolded PRION protein

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Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathy

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protein that plays a role in ferrying defective or misfolded proteins to the proteasomes. mutated, it is a cause of familial Parkinsons disease

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Parkin

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lack of enzymes in lysosomes causes accumulation of waste and produces swelling of cells of the brain

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Tay-Sachs Disease

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Protein normally found in the PRESYNAPTIC membrane, where it is apparently involved in synaptic plasticity.

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Alpha-Synuclein

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a protein that can consist in TWO FORMS that differ only in their three dimensional shape;

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PRION

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abnormal accumulations of ________ are apparently the cause of neural degeneration in Parkinsons disease

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Alpha Synuclein

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Killer enzyme that plays a role in apoptosis

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Caspase

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Said of a genetic disorder caused by a recessive gene that fails to produce a protein that is necessary for good health

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Loss of Function

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protein that attaches itself to faulty or misfolded proteins and thus targets them for destruction by roteasomes

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Ubiquitin

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Organelle responsible for destroying defective or degraded proteins within the cell

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Proteasome

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abnormal circular structures with a dense core consisting of alpha-synuclein protein; found in the nigrostriatal neurons in people with Parkinsons disease

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Lewy Body

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inherited disorder that causes degeneration of the basal ganglia

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Huntingtons disease

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protein that may serve to facilitate the production and transport of brain derived neurotrophic factor.

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Huntingtin (htt)

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disorder characterized by progressively more severely uncontrollable jerking movements, writhing movements, dementia, and finally death

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Huntingtons disease