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67 Cards in this Set
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What is the PNS and what does it consist of?
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peripheral nervous system
nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. |
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Two branches of the PNS
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Skeletal and autonomic
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What kind of system is the skeletal branch of the PNS?
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Motor and voluntary
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What kind of system is the autonomic brancy of the PNS?
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motor AND sensory and NOT voluntary
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Two branches of the autonomic system
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Sympathetic and the parasympathetic
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What does the sympathetic branch of the autonomic system do?
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Prepares the body for "fight or flight."
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What does the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic system do?
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Takes care of the vegetative functions of the body.This branch is in effect ALL the time.
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Two kinds of peripheral nerves:
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Spinal and cranial
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Spinal nerves: How many pairs and where do they exit?
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31 pairs
Exit @ the thoracic and lumbar levels |
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Cranial nerves: How many pairs and where do they exit?
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12 pairs
Exit under the brain |
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Name the cranial nerves and what they pertain to
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Refer to notes. I don't feel like typing them on this damn study guide.
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Name four plexuses
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brachial, solar, lumbar, sacral
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Where is the brachial plexus located?
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Mass of nerves around the shoulder area
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Four important nerves of the brachial plexus:
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Axillary, median, ulnar, radial
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Injury to the radial nerve
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"Wrist drop"
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What nerve is injured in carpal tunnel?
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median nerve
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What nerve wraps around the humorus?
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axillary nerve
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What nerve is hurt when you hit your "funny bone"?
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ulnar nerve
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another name for the solar plexus
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celiac plexus
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Where is the lumbar plexus?
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in the L1-L3 area. Nerves go down the leg.
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Where is the sacral plexus?
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Sacrum
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What is the largest nerve in the body?
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Sciatic nerve
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What kind of saw is used in a craniatomy?
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gigli saw
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What is the process of cutting into the skull called?
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trephining
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Structure around the medulla oblangata and its function
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pons; relay station for nerves coming down from the brain.
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Two divisions of mental dysfunction
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psychoses and neuroses
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Definition of psychosis and some kinds of psychoses
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The person experiences a severe break with reality. Schizophrenics, cleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs.
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Definition of nerosis and some kinds of neuroses
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No break with reality, but something impairs their ability to live a good life. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Psychesthenia
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the inability of a person to control their thoughts
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Two types of manias:
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Obsessive and compulsive
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Monomania
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Obsession with a single idea
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Megalomania
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delusions of grandeur; think they are important
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Acrophobia, agoraphobia, hydrophobia, brontophobia, ailurophobia, nyctophobia, claustrophobia, scotoophobia--- define
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fear of: heights, open places, water, thunder, cats, night, closed spaces, darkness
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sleepwalking
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somnambulism
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Kind of conversion. Person cannot deal with the situation anymore.
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shell shock
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hostile thoughts and emotions towards an innocent target.
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displacement
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Person who has numerous surgeries without a real reason for them
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munchausen
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forbidden thoughts or desires are converted into their opposite
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reaction formation/sublimation
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process by which one offers a reason which is not the true reason.
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Rationalization
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Freud invented:
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psychoanalysis
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Three types of psychoanalysis
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id, ego, super ego
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Define the three elements of the psychanalyzation technique
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Id - primitive urges and drives
Ego - Wants to satisfy what the id wants Super ego - The conscience |
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If id was too strong and ego was too weak, the person would experience anxiety. This is called:
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Ego weakness
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Keeps threatening thoughts from entering consciousness.
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Repression
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Medical term for sleep walking. Disregard earlier spelling.
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somnambulism
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Aspects of schizophrenia and an "AKA" for one of them.
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Visual/auditory hallucinations - instruct the person to hurt themselves or others.
Speech disorders - "lalias" |
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Three kinds of "lalias"
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glossolalia, xenolalia, and echolalia
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What is glossolalia?
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Speaking in tongues
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What is xenolalia?
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Speaking in a language one has never spoken before.
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What is echolalia?
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Repeating whatever is said to the person.
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Schizophrenics may become this
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catatonic (noun is catatonia). They experience mutism while in this state.
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Old term for schizophrenia
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dementia praecox
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The ability to bend a person's body and have them stay in that position.
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Cereaflexibilitas aka "cerea" aka "wavy flexibility"
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A schizophrenic who engages in speech but there is no sense to what they’re saying.
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Word salads
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An abnormal sensation of the skin in the absence of any stimulus. Most common described as a sensation of insects walking on one’s skin.
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Parasthenia
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Originates in the brain
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Psychogenic
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Psychoses which result from brain trauma:
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hypoxia, alcohol psychosis, dementia, delirium
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What is hypoxia?
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A reduction of oxygen to the brain
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What is dementia?
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A permenant loss of brain function. Happens in old age.
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What is delirium?
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A loss of intellectual functioning that is temporary
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a person who exhibits tremors among other things. A manifestation of extreme drunkenness
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delirium tremens, aka "The DT's"
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Feelings of persecution
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paranoia (noun is paranoiac)
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Another name for bipolar disorder
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manic-depressive psychosis
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A disorder involving amnesia
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Fugue disorder. The person assumes a new identity and starts a new life.
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A person has trouble remembering events BEFORE the trauma.
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Retrograde
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A person has trouble remembering events AFTER the trauma.
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Anterograde
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Person can remember things you wouldn't normally remember and yet remembers minute details of other things
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Selective memory
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