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12 Instructor Resource Material for 12 Nervous System HANDOUT 7 Fill in the Blanks. 1. A patient reports having difficulty remembering: this symptom is termed 2. Ms. Roberts reports that she has problems staying asleep at night. She has - 3. What form of syncope is associated with abrupt emotional stress? Cara experiences a "warning" before an epileptic seizure. What is this called? 5. Ms. Murphy's speech is slurred after her brain attack. She is exhibiting A patient who walks very slowly in an uncoordinated manner, or shuffles, has an abnormal Samantha has lost her sense of taste. She is exhibiting 8. Zack was bom with an abnormal accumulation of CSF in the ventricles of the brain. He has A patient who faints is described as having 10. Patients with infections of the covering of the CNS have Currently, the most common cause of dementia is 12. What is the eponym for ALS? A patient with a paralysis of the body from the neck down has In what disorder is there an abnormal opening of the spine from which the meninges and/or the spinal cord protrudes? A patient who has a blockage or a hemorrhage in the brain with neural deficits that last longer than a day has had a/an 16. A hemorrhage above the outer covering of the meninges is a/an hemorrhage. 17. Inability or difficulty with reading and writing is _ 18. A patient who has lost his/her sense of smell has 19. Sudden seizures of sleep are 20. An inherited disorder resulting in dementia and a progressive loss of neural control beginning in adulthood 11. 13. 14. 15. 21. A progressive neurodegenerative disease in which patients exhibit an impairment of cognitive functioning is 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. A slight paralysis of the left or right side of the body is A headache of vascular origin is A malignant tumor of star-shaped glial cells is a/an_ A group of disorders characterized by recurrent seizures, sensory disturbances, abnormal behavior, and/or loss of consciousness is The process of recording the spinal canal is

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1. Amnesia
2. Insomnia
3. Vasovagal syncope
4. Aura
5. Dysarthria
6. Ataxia
7. Hypogeusia
8. Hydrocephalus
9. Syncope
10. Meningitis
11. Alzheimer's disease
12. Lou Gehrig's disease called Amiothoplic lateral sclerosis
13. Quadriplegia
14. Meningomyelocele
15. Cerebrovascular accident or stroke
16. Subdural hematoma
17. Alexia with agraphia(inability to read is alexia and agraphi is inability to write)
18. Anosmia
19. Nocturnal seizure
20. Huntington's disease
21. Parkinson's disease
22. No question
23. Hemiparesis
24. Migraine
25. Glioblastoma multiforme
26. Epilepsy
27. No question
28. Myelography