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Physiological Psych Final
Development and Neurological Disorders
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/09/2009

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tic
Definition
sudden spasm (of small grp of muscles)
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tremor
Definition
rhythmic movement of muscles
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chorea
Definition
flailing, non rhythmic, spreads across muscle groups, dance-like
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dystonia
Definition
sustained contraction and torsion
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ataxia
Definition
lack of motor coordination. ie cerebellar damage
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paralysis
Definition
inability to move a muscle or muscle grp
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akinesia
Definition
no control over movement
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Myasthenia gravis
Definition
WBC attack the post-synaptic ACh receptors
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ALS
Definition
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Lou Gehrig's Disease
Definition
muscle weakness, motor neurons in CNS just start dying
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Optic neuritis
Definition
inflamation of the optic nerve
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Multiple Sclerosis
Definition
immune attack schwann cells, numbness tingling
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Guillain-Barre
Definition
attacks schwann cells, begins in feet, patient recovers
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PANDAS
Definition
permanent, after staph infection, tics, ocd, autoimmune
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Sydenham's Chorea
Definition
in very young children, basal ganglia attack
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Tourette's
Definition
verbal tics, vulgarity. basal ganglia, frontal cortex, thalamus
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fasciculation
Definition
axons follow a blazed trail
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anencephaly
Definition
no brain
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encephalocele
Definition
opening in skull that protrudes out of baby's head like a bubble
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spina bifida
Definition
spine doesn't close up right, at birth
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