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| when stress/depressed, symptoms are exacerbated |
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| can't feel it, no pain receptors in brain |
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| reported episodic confusion, memory loss |
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2% of autopsies have unknown tumors
mass of cells/tissues w/o a function
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| all 3 paraphasias impaired in |
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repetition
naming
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| when person doesn't realize their speech production doesn't make sense (wernicke's) |
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| infiltrating worst, 45% prevalance, surgery ineffective, highly malignant, tend to stay on one side of brain. |
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| encapsulated, in meninges, slow growth easy to remove if found early, causes intracranial pressure, usually benign, women twice as likely to get. |
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| encapsulated, fast, origin of tumor from cancer elsewhere on body and has spread to brain, surgery usually unsuccessful, found in white/gray matter junctions, multiple tumors, 40% of elderly tumors. |
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| bruising/microscopic hemorrhage in the brain |
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| onnects and allows communication between Broca’s and Wernicke’s area |
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| Production of unintended syllables, words or phrases during the effort to speak, and words that don’t exist (neologisms) |
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| speech production problems, speech is nonfluent and agrammatic, comprehension intact, paraphasias rare |
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| problems understanding language; speech is fluent but nonsensical, comprehension is impaired, paraphasias common |
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| damage to arcuate fasciculus; speech fluent, comprehension intact, common/literal paraphasias |
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| optic disk swelling caused by intracranial pressure |
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| has clearly defined borders, don't really branch out. Edema due to pressure/swelling caused by this type of tumor. Intracranial pressure as well. |
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| take over brain tissue (Gliomas-45-50% of all brain tumors)--fast growing! |
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| not cancerous & when removed, do not grow back; however can be a threat to life if not removed. Untreatable in certain areas. |
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| cancerous & life threatening. May grow back once removed. |
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| voice problem; speech; occurs in about 25% |
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| Chewing and swallowing problems |
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| weak spot in the blood vessel that balloons out |
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| swelling of fluids in brain (excess CSF/blood) |
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