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outer grey matter of cerebrum. Governs thought, memory, reasoning, sensation, and voluntary movement
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left controls right side and vice versa
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located in CNS, CVA is an example of disease here
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located in PNS, cranial and spinal nerves, spinal cord lesion, polio are examples of disease here
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| partial or incomplete paralysis |
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inability to control the distance, power, and speed of a muscular action
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| abnormal burning sensation |
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| difficulty with word understanding |
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passing out after standing up to urinate, happens only in males
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| when a problem is identified and want to keep an eye on it |
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cotton ball on eye and bilateral blink
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| balance test, tests cerebellar function |
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decreased muscle tone or hypotonia
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increased tone hypertonia. Non-constant state of resistance
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| both lower extremities are paralyzed |
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| all 4 extremities are paralyzed |
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rapid continuous twitching of muscle(involuntary).
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lower motor neuron disease; atrophy and weakness
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caused by cold or fatigue, non physiological
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rapid sudden jerk or short series of jerks at regular intervals( hiccups)
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| involuntary, rapid, regular movement |
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| hyper-synchronous discharge of neurons |
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involuntary contraction of opposing muscle groups, go away when sleeping
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| tremor when muscles relaxed, usually goes away w movement] |
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| comes on when muscles being used. Seen w cerebellar disease or multiple sclerosis |
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sudden rapid jerky movement occurs at irregular intervals when using muscles
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slow twisting, like snake, continuous, moving distal part of limb
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decreased sensation of pain
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| sensation of pain is absent |
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| increased sensation of pain |
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decreased touch sensation
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absence of touch sensation
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| increased touch sensation |
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| abnormal findings, loss of position sense |
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ability to recognize objects by feel
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| occurs w/ sensory cortex problems |
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| ability to read a number traced on the skin |
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| ability to distinguish two simultaneous pin points |
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| simultaneous touch to both sides of the body at the same point, should be able to feel both sensations |
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| touch the skin and withdraw promptly, have the person touch you where you just touched |
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| problem with upper motor neuron lesions |
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problem with lower motor neuron lesions
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| check when there are hyper reflexes. Upper motor neuron disease |
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| if toes curl up it is normal(negative) if the pull up it is abnormal(positive) |
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