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7 Cards in this Set
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Objectives
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Traumatic Brain Injury (ICP)
Stroke Meningitis Epilepsy Parkinson Disease MS/ALS/MG Spinal Cord Injury |
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Neurons
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Dendrites receive stimuli
Stimuli pass down axons Schwann cells contain myelin (“white matter”) Help increase speed of impulse transmission |
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Dendrites
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receive afferent stimuli
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Axons
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are efferent
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Action potential of neuron
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Sodium is the stimulus which triggers the response by depolarizing cell.
Potassium repolarizes and slows things down |
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What can pass through the blood brain barrier
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Any lipid soluble drugs/molecules
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Paresis
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weakness
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