Rewrite: Jeffery

Question 1

Jeffery’s Condition?

Answer 1

aphasia

Question 2

lost the ability to comprehend or express speech

Answer 2

aphasia

Question 3

What areas are damaged for Jeffery?

Answer 3

Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area

Question 4

deals w/ the forming of language

Answer 4

Broca’s Area

Question 5

deals with understanding language

Answer 5

Wernicke’s Area

Question 6

Reasons for his aphasia? (@)

Answer 6

1. Lesions specific to Broca’s and Wernicke’s area

2. inheritance of malformed or malfunctioning structures

Question 7

damages to the brain

Answer 7

lesions

Question 8

environmental factors for Jeffery’s aphasia?

Answer 8

epigenetics

Question 9

where genes get activated or deactivated due to environmental factors such as stress and diet

Answer 9

epigenetics

Question 10

what 2 components are possible reasons for Jeffery to feel pain?

Answer 10

nociceptors and the gate-control theory

Question 11

a sensory receptor for pain

Answer 11

nociceptors

Question 12

what can Jeffery use to treat his chronic pain? (2)

Answer 12

drugs (painkillers) and massage

Question 13

what can drugs (painkillers) do for Jeffery’s pain?

Answer 13

it will mimic endorphins to his brain and thus his brain will send signals to the nociceptors to calm down

Question 14

a chemical that relates to feeling good

Answer 14

endorphins

Question 15

what type of painkillers can Jeffery take?

Answer 15

Advil, which are synthetic endorphins

Question 16

release endorphins from the endocrine system

Answer 16

massage

Question 17

controls our hormones

Answer 17

endocrine system

Question 18

we have small and large nociceptors were the small nociceptors always send pain signals but is stopped by the large nociceptors. When the large nociceptors activate it sends pain signals to the brain

Answer 18

gate-control theory