Huntington/parkinson Disease Chapt.8

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What is Huntington disease?

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a progressive, denegerative disease that causes certain nerve cells in your brain to waste away. As a result, you may experience uncontrolled movements, emotional disturbances and mental deterioration.

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What is Parkinson disease?

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a dengenerrative disorder that affects nerve cells or neurons in a part of the brain that controls muscle movement.

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Basal Ganglia

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a region consisting of 3 clusters of neurons (calledcandate nucleus, putamen, and the globus pallidus) located at the base of the brain that are responsible for involuntary movements such as tremors, athetosis and chorea.

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Bradykinesia

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slowed ability to start and continue movements and impaired ability to adjust the body's position.

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Cognitive functions

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an intellectual process by which on becomes aware of, perceives or comprehends ideas.

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Neurodegenerative disease

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a disease in which the nervous system progressive and irreversibly deteriorates.

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Nigrostriatal pathways

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a neural pathway that connects the substantia nigra with the striatum. it is one of the for major dopamine pathways in the brain, and is particulary involved in the production of movement, as part of a system called the basal ganglia motor loop.

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Psuedoparkinsonism

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drug-induces condition that resembles Parkinson's Disease.

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Substantia nigra

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part of the basal ganglia containing clusters of dopaminergic neurons and causing impaired muscle movement.