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Parkinson disease

Patient has


Slow movements


Difficulty initiating voluntary muscles



Basal ganglia affected

Delta brainwaves

Active during sleep

Babinski reflex

Abnormal dorsiflexionof the great toe up and fanning of smaller toes.



Damage to reflex arc or


Injury to corticospinal tract

Adrenergic Fibers

Sympathetic post ganglionic fibers

Dermatone

Area of skin supplied by sensory nerve fibers from a particular dorsal root

Somatic Nervous System

Connects the CNS to skin and skeletal muscles

Autonomic Nervous System

Connects CNS to visceral organs

Substantia Nigra

Part of the brain that assigns value to memory

Unconscious or Coma

Injury to reticular formation

Sensory nerve fibers cross over

Right hemisphere of cerebrum recieves sensory from left side



Vice versa

Aphasia

Loss of ability to speak

CVA Stroke

Interruption of the blood flow to the brain that can lead to cerebrum damage

Partial blindness

Results from injury to the visual cortex of the right occipital lobe

Hypothalamus Functions

Regulate body temp


Control hunger


Produce hormones


Control thirst

Frontal lobe Functions

Complex reasoning


Critical thinking



Ex. Test questions

Damage to Broca's area

Loss of ability to speak from brain injury

ALS

Clumsiness


Muscle fasciculations


Difficulty speaking coherently


Increasing weakness in limbs

All reflexes

Have a reflex arc

Cortical spinal tract controls

Voluntary muscle movements

Sequence of reflex arc

Receptor, sensory neuron, interneuron, motor neuron, effector



Rsime

Lobes of brain

Frontal, temporal, occipital, parietal

Parietal lobe

Pain

Occipital Lobe

Vision

Temporal Lobe

Hearing


Recognition of printed words

Sympathetic Nervous System

Adrenergic Fibers


Norepinephrine

Parasympathetic Nervous System

Cholinergic fibers


Acetylcholine

Nerve endings

Krause, cold


ruffini, hot


pacinian, deep pressure


meissner, touch and pressure


Tacticle, light touch and pressure


Golgi tendon organ, tension of muscle

Rods

Vision in dim light


General outlines

Cones

Color vision


Sharp images

General sense receptors

Found throughout the body

Special senses

Arise from receptors located in head

Perception

Input from sensory receptors

Sensory adaption

Sensory receptors become unresponsive or inhibition along the CNS pathway

Flow of sensory information

Sensory receptors activated


Impulse sent to CNS


Sensation


Perception

Olfactory receptors

Chemo receptors

Sensation

Feeling that results from sensory stimulation

Projection

Brain causes a sensation to seem to come from the receptors being stimulated

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Intense burning sensation from where a body part has been amputated



Phantom pain

Chemo receptors

Stimulated by


Concentration of chemical substances

Pain receptors

AKA - nocieptors


Stimulated by


Damaged tissue

Thermoreceptors

Stimulated by


Temperature changes

Baroreceptors

Stimulated by


Blood pressure changes

Spinotahlamic

Transmit information to the brainstem

Tympanic reflex

Less effective vibrations being transmitted to the inner ear

Taste receptors

Modified epithelial cells

Taste sensations

Sweet


Salty


Sour


Umami


Bitter

More rods than cones in retina

Leads to visual sensation from images focused in the retina to be blurred

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

Light is refracted when it passes between media of different optical density at an oblique angle

L

Anosmia

Loss of smell

Torn tympanic membrane

Differential diagnosis for someone with conductive deafness

Treat cataracts

Removal of lens

Glaucoma

Accumulation of aqueous humor

Colorblind

Lacks a type of photopigment

Synesthesia

Condition where brain interprets a stimulus to one sense as coming from another



Days of week or months as a color

Cause of smell and taste disorders

Allergies


Head injury


Infections that clog the nose


Side effect of a drug

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

Exocrine glands

Secrete through ducts or tubes to the body's exterior



Sweat glands

Hormones

Regulate metabolism



Aid in membrane transport



Regulates water and electrolyte balance and blood pressure



Functions in growth, reproduction, and development

Steroid Hormones

Lipid soluble



Combine with protein receptor molecules



Cause mrna synthesis



Consists of complex organic rings

Posterior pituitary hormones

Synthesized in the hypothalamus

Negative feedback

Controls hormone concentrations

Antidiuretic hormone

Secrete from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland

Treatment of type 2 diabetes

Drugs


Exercise


Maintaining desirable body weight


Restricting dietary carbohydrate to those high in fiber

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

Human growth hormone

Can decrease fat and increase muscle mass


But


Will not improve strength

Growth hormone

Enlarges cells



Increases the rate of fat metabolism and protein synthesis



Enhances the movement of amino acids into cells

Follicle Stimulating Hormone

Primarily affects the reproductive organs

Prolactin

Release of hormone from the hypothalamus



Inhibits by dopemine


Diabetes insipidus

Caused by ADH deficiency

Oxytocin

Given following childbirth to stimulate uterine contractions



Squeeze broken blood vessels closed


Minimizing hemorrhage

Growth hormone signals

Release of IGF-1

Graves disease

Goiter


Autoimmune disorder


Bulging eyes



Aka hyperthyroidism

Cretinism

Caused by hypothyroidism

Hypoparathyroidism

Drop in blood calcium concentration



Increase in muscle cramps

PTH

Controlled by Blood calcium

Calcitonin

Stimulates calcium deposition in bone

Adrenal medulla secrets

Epinephrine



Norepinephrine

Aldosterone

Promotes homeostasis by conversing sodium and excreting potassium

Cortisol

Stimulates the production of glucose from non carbohydrates

Pancreas

Has endocrine and exocrine functions

Melatonin

Secreted by pineal gland

Patient born without thymus gland

No WCW to protect against infection