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Brain, CN, memory, sleep

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What are the two layers of dura matter   1. Periosteal layer 2. Meningeal layer  
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What is a venous sinus   Select areas where there is a space between periosteal and meningeal layer. Drains blood from the brain into internal jugular veins  
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What are the three dural folds   1. Falx cerebri 2. Tentorium cerebelli 3. Falx cerebelli  
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What is the falx cerebri   Separates the two cerebral hemispheres in longitudinal fissure  
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What does the falx cerebri contain   Superior sagittal sinus and inferior sagittal sinus  
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What is the tentorium cerebelli   Separates the cerebellar hemisphere from cerebrum  
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What does the tentorium cerebelli contain   Transverse sinus  
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What is the falx cerebelli   Divides cerebellar hemispheres  
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What anchors the pia matter to the brain   Astrocytes  
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What separates the two lateral ventricles   Septum pellucidum  
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What is the interventicular foramen   Allows flow of CSF from lateral ventricles to 3rd ventricle  
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How much blood supply goes to the brain ALWAYS   20%  
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What does the cerebral aqueduct run through   The midbrain  
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Function of the choroid plexus   Produces CSF  
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Function of arachnoid villi   Reabsorbs CSF to venous blood  
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Name 3 functions of the Medulla   1. Relay nerve signals to brain and spinal cord 2. Control autonomic function (heart beat & breathing) 3. Coordination of body movements  
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What nuclei of 4 cranial nerves does the medulla contain?   IX, X, XI, XII  
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What are the pyramids   Large motor tracts  
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What is the decussation of the pyramids   Crossover point, left cortex controls motor activity of right side of body  
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What are the olives and where are they located   Gives precision to movements, proprioceptive signals, and ventral surface of medulla  
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Name 2 functions of the Pons   1. Modify respiratory rythmicity center in Medulla 2. Process and relay info to/from Cerebellum  
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What nuclei of 4 cranial nerves does the Pons contain   V, VI, VII, VIII  
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What and where is the corpora quadrigemina   The superior colliculi and the inferior colliculi on the posterior side of the midbrain  
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What does the superior colliculi control   Visually tracking moving objects  
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What does the inferior colliculi control   Reflex turning of head to sounds  
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Name 2 functions of the Thalamus   1. Receives nearly all sensory info on its way to the cortex 2. Interconnected with limbic system  
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What does the hypothalamus contain   Dozens of nuclei  
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What are the mammillary bodies   Relay station for limbic system olfactory reflexes  
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What is the infundibulum   Structure that suspends pituitary gland  
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What is the pituitary gland   "Master" endocrine gland  
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Name a function of the Hypothalamus   1. Major regulator for homeostasis of autonomic and endocrine 2. Regulates aggression, rage, pain, pleasure, and arousal 3. Sleep, body temp, food, and thirst  
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What is the epithalamus   Small nuclei just outside of thalamus and hypothalamus  
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What is the pineal gland and what does it secrete   Endocrine gland that secretes melatonin during darkness on the epithalamus  
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What is the center of the two cerebellar hemispheres called   The vermis  
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What is the grey matter in the Cerebellum   Folia  
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What is the white matter in the Cerebellum   Arbor Vitae  
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What is the fissure that separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum   Transverse fissure  
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Name 3 functions of the Cerebellum   1. Coordination of movements 2. Adjustment of postural muscles 3. Sense of equilibrium  
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What is the brain blood brain barrier   Tight junctions that seal epithelial cells, continuous basement membrane, and astrocytes covering capillaries  
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What band of white matter separates the two cerebral hemispheres   Corpus Callosum  
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What are basal nuclei   Islands of grey matter within white matter  
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What is the basal nuclei function   Subconscious control of skeletal muscle tone and coordination of learned movements  
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What does the lateral fissure separate   The parietal lobe from the temporal lobe  
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What does the frontal lobe control   Motor, speech (usually left side), personality, mood, social judgement  
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What does the parietal lobe control   Sensation (except smell), language  
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What does the occipital lobe control   Vision  
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What does the temporal lobe control   Smell, HEARING, memory, language, emotional behavior  
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What does the precentral gyrus contain   Primary motor area  
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What does the postcentral gyrus contain   Primary somatosensory area  
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How are the cranial nerves formed   Bundles of axons  
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Blood brain barrier function and what cannot pass   Protects cells from some toxins and pathogens. (Proteins and antibiotics)  
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What does the SNS consist of   Consists of all voluntary motor pathways outside of the CNS and all Skeletal muscle  
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What is the blood brain barrier permeable to   Lipid soluble materials (alcohol, O2, CO2, nicotine, and anesthetics)  
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What does the ANS consist of   All smooth and cardiac muscle, and gland cells  
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What are 2 components of the ANS   Sympathetic division and parasympathetic  
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What is the Sympathetic division and what does it go through   Fight or flight. The spinal cord  
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What is the Parasympathetic division and what does it go through   Rest and digest. Cranial nerves and sacral spinal cord  
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Blood-CSF barrier   At choroid plexus, is ependymal cells joined by tight junctions  
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What is the phrenic nerve   Part of the cervical plexus that keeps the diaphragm alive (C3)  
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CSF concentration compared to plasma (interstitial fluid)   More Na+ and Cl- but less K+ and Ca2  
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What is the ventricles lined with   Ependymal cells  
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What is the rate of reabsorption/production of CSF   The rate of reabsorption is always the same as production  
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What is hydrocephalus   Blockage of drainage of CSF  
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The neurons of the ______________ send input to cerebellum   Olives  
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What are nucleus gracilis and nucleus cuneatus and what is their function   They are sensory neurons and they relay info to thalamus  
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Hoarseness of the voice is a sign of damage to what cranial nerve   Vagus X  
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Posterior 1/3 of tongue taste and BP control and respiration is what cranial nerve   Glossalpharyngeal IX  
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What and where are the Pneumotaxic and Apneustic centers   Help control breathing and in the pons  
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Function and location of the middle cerebellar peduncles   Carry sensory info to the cerebellum (pons)  
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Posterior 2/3 of tongue, tears and saliva production, and facial expressions are what cranial nerve   Facial VII  
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What is the primary sensory nerve for your face and controls mastication   Trigeminal V  
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What happens when you have had no O2 to the brain for 4 minutes   Coronal cell death due to lysosomes breaking open and cells starting to auto-digest  
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Where are the nucleus of CN III and IV   The midbrain  
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What holds the corticospinal tract   The cerebral peduncles in the midbrain  
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What and where is the Tegmentum   Connects to cerebellum and helps control fine movements through red nucleus. Located in the midbrain  
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What and where is the substantia nigra   Sends inhibitory signals to basal ganglia and thalamus. Located in the midbrain  
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What structure, if degrades, will lead to parkinson's disease and tremors   Substantia nigra  
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What is the tectum in the midbrain   Corpora quadrigemina  
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What is the reticular formation   Clusters of grey matter scattered throughout pons, midbrain, and medulla  
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What does the motor arm of the reticular formation control   Balance and posture, relay info from eyes/ears to cerebellum, track moving objects  
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What is the origin of descending analgesic pathways (pain)   Motor arm of reticular formation  
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What is the reticular activating system (RAS)   Alerts cerebral cortex to sensory signals to awaken from sleep , maintains consciousness, regulates sleep, injury leads to irreversible coma  
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What is the function of the inferior cerebellar colliculi   Carries sensory info from spinal cord  
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What is the function of the superior cerebellar colliculi   Carries motor fibers that extend to motor control areas  
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What is the habenular nuclei and where is it located   Emotional responses to odor and in the epithalamus  
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What and where is the subthalamus   Works with basal ganglia, cerebrum, and cerebellum to control body movements. It is inferior to the thalamus  
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What and where are the circumventicular ograns (CVO)   Monitor changes in blood chemistry due to lack of blood brain barrier. In walls of 3rd and 4th ventricles  
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What are sites of entry for HIV virus/dementia into brain   Circumventicular organs (CVO)  
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What is the cerebral cortex   Grey matter overlying white matter  
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What are the two types of cells in the cerebral cortex   Stellate cells and Pyramidal cells  
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Stellate Cells   Have dendrites projecting in all directions  
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Pyramidal cells   Have an axon that passes out of the area  
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What is part of the cerebral white matter   Commissural fibers, association fibers, and projection fibers  
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What takes up most of the volume of the cerebrum   White matter  
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Projection tracts   Extend vertically from brain to spinal cord forming internal capsule and ascending and descending tracts  
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Association tracts   Connect lobes and gyri of each hemisphere to each other  
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Commissural tracts   Cross from one hemisphere to another (corpus callosum)  
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Where is the main area for equilibrium   The cerebellum  
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Name 3 functions of the CSF   1. Buoyancy 2. Cushions brain from hitting skull 3. Chemical stability (rinses away waste)  
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Where is the primary gustatory area   Bottom of postcentral gyrus  
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What is the broca's area   Motor speech area, right under precentral gyrus. Transmits to primary motor cortex for action  
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What is the Wernicke's area   Auditory association center, right under post central gyrus. How you turn words to speech  
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Cerebral palsy   Loss of motor control and coordination. Damage to motor areas. Not a progressive disease, but irreversible  
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Cognition   Awareness, perception, thinking, knowledge, memory  
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What would happen if a brain lesion occurred in the temporal lobe   Agnosia (can't recognize objects) of prosopagnosia (can't recognize faces)  
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What would happen if a brain lesion occurred in the pariteal lobe   Contralateral neglect syndrome (can't recognize one half of body)  
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What does the prefrontal cortex control   How emotions are expressed (judgement)  
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Where do emotions form   Hypothalamus and amygdala  
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Parkinson's disease   Neurons from the substantia nigra do not release enough dopamine onto basal ganglia  
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What is the limbic system   Loop of corticol structures surrounding deep brain. Intense emotional brain  
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Name a function of the amygdala   Emotions  
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Name a function of the hippocampus   Organizing sensory and cognitive info and turning it into a memory  
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What structures are part of the limbic system   (amygdala, hippocampus, fornix, and cingulate gyrus  
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Are are some possible triggers for sleep   1. Adenosine levels increase with brain activity 2. Adenosine levels inhibit activity in RAS  
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How does caffeine make you stay awake   It prevents adenosine from inhibiting RAS  
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What are the 4 stages of brain waves   Alpha, beta, theta, delta  
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What happens in the first 90 minutes of sleep   Go from 1 to 4 of NREM, go up to stage 2 of NREM, go to REM. Cycle repeats until REM totals 90 to 120 minutes  
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REM sleep   Where most dreams occur. Neuronal activity and oxygen is at its highest. Total sleeping/dreaming time decreases with age. Occurs about 5 times a night EEG resembles awake person. Help store and strengthen info from memory  
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What is immediate memory   Ability to hold something in your thoughts for just a few seconds.  
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What is reverberating circuits   The immediate memory of what just happened "echoes" in our minds for a few seconds  
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What happens with facilitation and short term memory   Makes it last longer with tetanic stimulation (rapid, repetitive signals) causing Ca2 to accumulate and cell becomes more likely to fire  
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What is posttetanic potentiation   To jog a memory. Ca2 level in synaptic knob has stayed elevated long after tetanic stimulation, so little stimulation will be able to recover that memory  
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What is declarative long term memory   Retention of facts as texts or words  
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What is procedural long term memory   Retention of motor skills  
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What is long term memory   Physical remodeling of synapses with new branching of axons or dendrites  
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What is long term potentiation   Tetanic stimulation causes ionic changes (Ca2 entry) Neuron produces more neurotransmitter receptors, synthesizes more protein, releases nitric oxide, signals more neurotransmitter release  
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What is anterograde amnesia   Can not store new data  
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What is retrograde amnesia   Can not remember old data  
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In what order does fact memory go in   Sensory receptor --> Sensory cortex --> Sensory association center --> Amygdala / Hippocampus --> Hypothalamus/basal forebrain --> Thalamus --> Ventral median prefrontal cortex --> Basal forebrain --> Sensory association area  
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In what order does skill memory go in   Sensory association area --> Hippocampus --> Cerebellum --> Caudate and lentiform nuclei --> Premotor cortex/motor control  
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What is aprosodia   A lesion in the broca's area where an individual cannot recognize certain letters  
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What is the angular gyrus and where is it located   Processes text into a form we can speak, right behind wernicke's  
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Where are language centers located in most people   Left cerebral hemisphere  
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What is aphasia   Inability to use or comprehend words due to deficit in broca or wernicke's areas  
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Lesion to Broca's area   Nonfluent aphasia - know what they want to say but can't speak, entire vocab around 2-3 words  
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Lesion to wernicke's   Fluent aphasia - Speech normal and excessive but makes little sense  
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Damage to common auditory association area or integrative area   Anomic aphasia - Speech and understanding are normal but text/pictures make no sense  
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What is CN 0   First found in humans in 1913. The reaction to pheromones. Begin in olfactory epithelium but terminate in lateral/medial septal nuclei and preoptic areas (hot button sex regions)  
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What is cerebrovascular accident CVA and types   Third leading cause of death (stroke.) Ischemic and hemmorhagic  
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What is the purpose of Tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA)   If used within 3 hours of a stroke it can decrease the risk of permanent disability  
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Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)   Episode of temporary cerebral dysfunction because of impaired blood flow to the brain. Dizziness, slurred speech, numbness, paralysis on one side, double vision  
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Alzheimer disease   Dementia= loss of reasoning, ability to read/write, talk, eat, walk. Loss of neurons that release ACh, plaque of abnormal proteins on neurons, tangled protein filaments on neurons,  
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What can be beneficial for Alzheimer's   Estrogen, Vitamin E, ibuprofen, and ginko biloba  
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What is a contusion   Bruising of brain, always lose consciousness, blood in CSF  
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When does alpha occur   When awake and resting with eyes closed  
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When does beta occur   With eyes open performing mental tasks  
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What does theta occur   During sleep or emotional stress  
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When does delta occur   During deep sleep  
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