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Parkinson disease |
Patient has Slow movements Difficulty initiating voluntary muscles Basal ganglia affected |
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Delta brainwaves |
Active during sleep |
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Babinski reflex |
Abnormal dorsiflexionof the great toe up and fanning of smaller toes. Damage to reflex arc or Injury to corticospinal tract |
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Adrenergic Fibers |
Sympathetic post ganglionic fibers |
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Dermatone |
Area of skin supplied by sensory nerve fibers from a particular dorsal root |
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Somatic Nervous System |
Connects the CNS to skin and skeletal muscles |
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Autonomic Nervous System |
Connects CNS to visceral organs |
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Substantia Nigra |
Part of the brain that assigns value to memory |
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Unconscious or Coma |
Injury to reticular formation |
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Sensory nerve fibers cross over |
Right hemisphere of cerebrum recieves sensory from left side Vice versa |
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Aphasia |
Loss of ability to speak |
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CVA Stroke |
Interruption of the blood flow to the brain that can lead to cerebrum damage |
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Partial blindness |
Results from injury to the visual cortex of the right occipital lobe |
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Hypothalamus Functions |
Regulate body temp Control hunger Produce hormones Control thirst |
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Frontal lobe Functions |
Complex reasoning Critical thinking Ex. Test questions |
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Damage to Broca's area |
Loss of ability to speak from brain injury |
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ALS |
Clumsiness Muscle fasciculations Difficulty speaking coherently Increasing weakness in limbs |
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All reflexes |
Have a reflex arc |
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Cortical spinal tract controls |
Voluntary muscle movements |
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Sequence of reflex arc |
Receptor, sensory neuron, interneuron, motor neuron, effector Rsime |
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Lobes of brain |
Frontal, temporal, occipital, parietal |
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Parietal lobe |
Pain |
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Occipital Lobe |
Vision |
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Temporal Lobe |
Hearing Recognition of printed words |
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Sympathetic Nervous System |
Adrenergic Fibers Norepinephrine |
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Parasympathetic Nervous System |
Cholinergic fibers Acetylcholine |
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Nerve endings |
Krause, cold ruffini, hot pacinian, deep pressure meissner, touch and pressure Tacticle, light touch and pressure Golgi tendon organ, tension of muscle |
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Rods |
Vision in dim light General outlines |
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Cones |
Color vision Sharp images |
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General sense receptors |
Found throughout the body |
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Special senses |
Arise from receptors located in head |
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Perception |
Input from sensory receptors |
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Sensory adaption |
Sensory receptors become unresponsive or inhibition along the CNS pathway |
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Flow of sensory information |
Sensory receptors activated Impulse sent to CNS Sensation Perception |
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Olfactory receptors |
Chemo receptors |
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Sensation |
Feeling that results from sensory stimulation |
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Projection |
Brain causes a sensation to seem to come from the receptors being stimulated |
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Reflex sympathetic dystrophy |
Intense burning sensation from where a body part has been amputated Phantom pain |
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Chemo receptors |
Stimulated by Concentration of chemical substances |
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Pain receptors |
AKA - nocieptors Stimulated by Damaged tissue |
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Thermoreceptors |
Stimulated by Temperature changes |
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Baroreceptors |
Stimulated by Blood pressure changes |
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Spinotahlamic |
Transmit information to the brainstem |
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Tympanic reflex |
Less effective vibrations being transmitted to the inner ear |
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Taste receptors |
Modified epithelial cells |
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Taste sensations |
Sweet Salty Sour Umami Bitter |
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More rods than cones in retina |
Leads to visual sensation from images focused in the retina to be blurred |
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why it takes time to see things in a dark room |
Takes time for retina to rebuild it's rhododendron stores from opsin and retinene |
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Light is refracted when it passes between media of different optical density at an oblique angle |
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Anosmia |
Loss of smell |
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Torn tympanic membrane |
Differential diagnosis for someone with conductive deafness |
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Treat cataracts |
Removal of lens |
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Glaucoma |
Accumulation of aqueous humor |
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Colorblind |
Lacks a type of photopigment |
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Synesthesia |
Condition where brain interprets a stimulus to one sense as coming from another Days of week or months as a color |
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Cause of smell and taste disorders |
Allergies Head injury Infections that clog the nose Side effect of a drug |
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Astigmatism |
Visual defect due to errors in refraction caused by abnormal curvatures in the surface of the cornea or lens Some images focus, others blurred |
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Exocrine glands |
Secrete through ducts or tubes to the body's exterior Sweat glands |
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Hormones |
Regulate metabolism Aid in membrane transport Regulates water and electrolyte balance and blood pressure Functions in growth, reproduction, and development |
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Steroid Hormones |
Lipid soluble Combine with protein receptor molecules Cause mrna synthesis Consists of complex organic rings |
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Posterior pituitary hormones |
Synthesized in the hypothalamus |
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Negative feedback |
Controls hormone concentrations |
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Antidiuretic hormone |
Secrete from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland |
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Treatment of type 2 diabetes |
Drugs Exercise Maintaining desirable body weight Restricting dietary carbohydrate to those high in fiber |
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Diabetes mellitus |
Weight loss Fatty acids and ketone bodies accumulate in the blood Pancreas cannot produce insulin or the body cannot respond to it Insulin must be taken or drugs given to help body to utilize insulin |
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Human growth hormone |
Can decrease fat and increase muscle mass But Will not improve strength |
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Growth hormone |
Enlarges cells Increases the rate of fat metabolism and protein synthesis Enhances the movement of amino acids into cells |
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone |
Primarily affects the reproductive organs |
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Prolactin |
Release of hormone from the hypothalamus Inhibits by dopemine |
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Diabetes insipidus |
Caused by ADH deficiency |
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Oxytocin |
Given following childbirth to stimulate uterine contractions Squeeze broken blood vessels closed Minimizing hemorrhage |
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Growth hormone signals |
Release of IGF-1 |
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Graves disease |
Goiter Autoimmune disorder Bulging eyes Aka hyperthyroidism |
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Cretinism |
Caused by hypothyroidism |
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Hypoparathyroidism |
Drop in blood calcium concentration Increase in muscle cramps |
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PTH |
Controlled by Blood calcium |
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Calcitonin |
Stimulates calcium deposition in bone |
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Adrenal medulla secrets |
Epinephrine Norepinephrine |
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Aldosterone |
Promotes homeostasis by conversing sodium and excreting potassium |
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Cortisol |
Stimulates the production of glucose from non carbohydrates |
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Pancreas |
Has endocrine and exocrine functions |
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Melatonin |
Secreted by pineal gland |
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Patient born without thymus gland |
No WCW to protect against infection |