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When moving head strikes stationary surface or stationary head is struck by moving object in a waythat causes head ot move quickly from its resting position
-linear: caused by forces that propel head on linear path
-angular: caused by forces that propel head at an angle from the path of the impact and cause it to rotate |
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Progressive neurological disease characterized by increasing dementia (Brookshire)
Most common type of dementia; progressive deterioration of cognitive funtions language disturbace is major symptom (Webb) |
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lack of sensory recognition; result of a lesion in sensory association areas or association pathways of brain.
types: auditory, tactile, visual, or mixed |
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| Sensory nerve fibers; toward center |
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Balloonlike bulges in an artery caused by weakness in its wall (Brookshire)
Susceptible to hemorrhage
Sac formed by dialation of wall of an artery, vein, or the heart (Webb) |
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axonal endings associated with pathological deposits
Found in brain of patients with DAT
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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progressive, fatal motor neuron (upper and lower) disease
(Webb) |
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| connection between two vessels |
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Convolution of left parietal lobe; critical for language processing (Webb)
Near temporoparietal-occipital junction, at posterior end of Sylvian fissure; damage causes reading and arithmetic problems (Brookshire) |
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| inability to retreive and produce words; cannot name objects or recognize/recall their names |
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| Absense of oxygen to supply to organs or tissue |
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| Denial of illness; often a symptom of RHD |
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Disruption of volitional movement sequences; premotor cortex damage (Brookshire)
Disturbed motor planning; distinct from paralysis, weakness, or incoordination (Webb) |
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| meningy of brain and spinal cord between dura and pia mater |
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| CSF is resorbed into venous blood |
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| Association fiber in both hemispheres connecting temporal to frontal lobes, posterior and anterior speech-language areas in left |
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| Loss of ability to recognize objects through touch alone; cause by brain damage; tactile angosia; although sense of touch is still intact |
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| nerve fibers connection adjacent regions of cortex, between and within association areas |
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Arteriovenous Malformation
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Congenital morphologic defect resulting in an abnormal cluster of arteries directly connecting to veins; enlarges over time; at risk of rupture (Webb)
Convoluted collections of weak, thin-walled veins and arteries on brain's surface or within (Brookshire) |
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| Clumsiness and incoordination of movements caused by cerebellar damage |
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| Subcortical structure; part of extrapyramidal system; motor control of tone and posture |
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| Connects two vertebral arteries to posterior part of COW; supplies blood to pons |
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| Ipsilateral paralysis of lower facial muscles caused by compression of facial nerve CN 7 |
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| rare disease; caused by multiple infarcts in subcortical white matter |
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| relating to brainstem, especially the pons |
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external (2): blood to face
internal (2): blood to COW |
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Disorder characterized by irregular, spasmodic, involuntary movements of limbs or facial muscles. (Webb)
A disease causing quick, forceful involuntary movements. (Brookshire) |
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| Auditory comprehension is good but exact repetition is poor; fluent speech; site of lesion is in debate but may affect arcuate fasciculus |
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| going between cortex and brainstem |
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| part of pyramidal system; descends from cerebral cortex to spinal cord facilitates motor control |
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| brain injury at the site of impact |
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| Brain injury on opposite side of brain from impact |
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| Cross midline; crossing of pyramidal tracts from one side of CNS to other at medulla |
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| group of speech production disorders caused by oral-motor weakness, paralysis, or incoordination; affects movement or sensation within body parts involved in speech |
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| motor; outward, away from neuron |
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| exaggerated emotion responses to stimuli |
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| Fragment that travels through blood vessel and may occlude an artery |
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| the part of the motor system not composed of corticobulbar or corticospinal tracts; includes basal ganglia and related structures |
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| involuntary contractions in group of muscle fibers |
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