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12 Cards in this Set
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Alzheimer's Disease |
-progressive neurodegenerative disorder -results in deterioration and irreversible damage w/in the cerebral cortex and subcortical areas of the brain -neurons involved with ACh transmission deteriorate w/in cerebral cortex |
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
-chronic degenerative disease that produces both UMN/LMN impairments -weakness and muscle atrophy secondary to significant loss of anterior horn cells in the spinal cord and the motor cranial nerve nuclei in the lower brainstem |
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Bell's Palsy |
-temporary unilateral facial paralysis secondary to trauma w/ demyelination and/or axonal degeneration of the facial nerve |
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
-peripheral nerve entrapment injury that occurs as a result of compression of the median nerve |
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Diabetic Neuropathy |
-complication and direct effect of diabetes mellitus -many forms: cranial neuropathies, radiculopathies, and mononeuropathies |
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Epilepsy |
-chronic condition where there is temporary dysfunction of the brain that results in hypersynchronous electrical discharge of cortical neurons and seizure activity that is typically unprovoked and unpredictable |
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Guillan-Barre Syndrome |
-aka acute polyneuropathy -temporary inflammation and demyelination of the peripheral nerves' myelin sheaths potentially resulting in axonal degeneration` |
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Huntington's Disease |
-neurologic disorder of the CNS -characterized by degeneration and atrophy of the BG and cerebral cortex w/in the brain -NT's become deficient and are unable to modulate movement |
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Multiple Sclerosis |
-produces patches of demyelination of the myelin sheaths that surround nerves w/in the brain and SC -subsequent plaque development and eventual failure of impulse transmission |
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Myasthenia Gravis |
-autoimmune disease resulting in NMJ pathology -defect in transmission of nerve impulses to muscles at the NMJ |
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Parkinson's Disease |
-primary degenerative disorder -characterized by a decrease in production of dopamine w/in the corpus striatum of the BG |
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Post-polio Syndrome |
-LMN that affects the anterior horn cells of those previously affected w/ polio |
