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Brain Damage
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the types of tumors? | encapsulated and infiltrating |
| What is one kind of encapsulated tumor? | benign (less harmful) |
| What is one kind of infiltrating tumor? | malignant (cancerous) |
| What kind of tumor does a gliomas originate from glial cells fall under? | infiltrating and malignant |
| What kind of tumor does a meningiomas grown in the meninges fall under? | encapsulated and benign |
| What are the two types of strokes? | Cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral ischemia |
| What happen during a cerebral hemorrhage? | when bleeding in the brain, an aneurysm bursts |
| What happens during a cerebral ischemia? | there is a disruption of blood supply causes by the thrombosis, embolism, or arteriosclerosis |
| What causes a contusion? | caused by brain hitting skull, sometimes countercoup |
| What causes a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)? | blow to the head that disrupts consciousness |
| What are the effects of mTBI on the brain? | effects cognition, motor movements, and neurological functions can last for many years |
| How doe chronic traumatic encephalopathy occur? | in people who had many mTBIs over time at least 20% are never diagnosed with a concussion |
| What is an encephalitis? | the inflammation associated with brain infection |
| What are the two types of infections that can happen in our brain? | bacterial and viral |
| What can treat a bacterial infection and what can it cause? | treated by antibiotics, it can cause meningitis |
| What happens in a viral infection? | some viral infections can attack the CNS (rabies). It can play a role in ethology of many disorders. The viral infection can be dominant. |
| What are the two major neuron toxins? | lead and mercury |
| Epilepsy symptoms | uncontrollable shakes, loose of awareness, stiff, collapsing |
| Epilepsy biological basis | cause biological defects on the neuron and glia that includes genetic, vascular, metabolic, autoimmune, neoplastic, and traumatic brain injuries |
| An epilepsy treatment option | a surgery to remove a small part of the brain that cause the seizure |
| PNS regeneration | begins from proximal stump, regrowth to intact myelin sheath, if not there regrowth is difficult |
| What is critical for PNS regeneration? | Schwann cells |
| CNS regeneration | collateral sprouting may occur and nonexistence |
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