lecture 14

Question 1

What is epilepsy?

Answer 1

conditioned characterized by abnormal, recurrent discharges from neurons

Question 2

What are some causes of epilepsy?

Answer 2

heredity component, ischemic/traumatic event at birth such as anoxia (temporal lobe herniated/pinched by skull during birth), infections, trauma, stroke, tumors

Question 3

Other symptoms of epilepsy?

Answer 3

Degeneration of neurons at the site where the epileptic seizure starts

Question 4

What are tonic clonic seizures?

Answer 4

immediate contraction of the muscles and convulsions

Question 5

Absence seizures?

Answer 5

lack of cortical activity, immobility, muteness, blank stare, etc. Lasts 5-10 seconds

Question 6

Motor seizures?

Answer 6

start in one location (ex thumb), and then spreads throughout the body

Question 7

Sensory seizures?

Answer 7

occurs in any sensory system (tone of certain frequency)

Question 8

Psychic seizures?

Answer 8

aphasic (failure to comprehend speech), dymnesic (deja vu), cognitive (intrusion of a single thought), affective (sudden fear, anxiety, etc)

Question 9

What is involved in epileptic surgery?

Answer 9

removes epileptic focus

Question 10

Why do seizures get worse with time?

Answer 10

synaptic efficacies between the neurons in the epileptic focus and the surrounding neurons get strengthened

Question 11

Wernicke’s aphasia?

Answer 11

inability to understand language

Question 12

Broca’s aphasia?

Answer 12

inability to speak properly and understand syntax

Question 13

conduction aphasia?

Answer 13

has senseless speech but can understand speech and writing fine

Question 14

Stuttering?

Answer 14

dysrhythmia of speech leading to a disturbance of articulation of words, problem between 2 hemispheres, no single cause

Question 15

Dyslexia?

Answer 15

impaired ability to read

Question 16

dysphasia?

Answer 16

impaired ability to comprehend/produce speech