Exam 13: Diseases of the Nervous System and the Special Senses

Because a stroke is a vascular disease, stroke and heart disease share many risk factors.

_____ may be focal, affecting one part of the brain, or generalized, affecting many areas of the brain.

Bell's palsy is a paralysis of facial muscles caused by _____ of the facial nerve.

One of the risk factors for botulism includes eating honey.

If a person is unimmunized against tetanus, _____ injections are necessary to neutralize the toxin.

The cause of trigeminal neuralgia remains unknown, although it may be related to _____ of trigeminal neurons.

Following entry into human tissue, the rabies virus moves to the _____ nervous system.

Falls are the leading cause of traumatic brain injury.

The inner part of the cerebrum contains basal _____ that control muscle coordination and steady movement.

The _____ lobes interpret the meaning of incoming sensory signals that arrives from the opposite side of the body.

There is no evidence to link brain tumors to electromagnetic radiation from cell phones.

Multiple sclerosis is an _____ disease.

The word chorea refers to involuntary and ceaseless, rapid, jerky movements.

_____ is the typical onset for ALS, MS, Huntington's, and some cases of Parkinson's.

The tetanus bacteria live in animal and human intestines.

The layers of the meninges affected by meningitis are the _____.

_____ lateral sclerosis is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

The botulism bacteria thrive in anaerobic conditions.

One type of neuron is the _____, which conveys messages from the CNS to muscles.

_____ chorea is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain that affects motor and cognitive function.