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Flashcards in Lec 7-3 - Neuro Disorders Adult Onset Deck (9)
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1
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Most common type of ms

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Relapsing remitting

2
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Impaired blood supply to brain can cause this dementia

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Vascular dementia

3
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Build up of blank in the brain can lead to dementia

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Lewy bodies

4
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In alzheimers disease, microscopic changes in cortex lead to blank of neurons

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Death

5
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This is a subcortical cholinergic nucleus that supplies ach to the cortex

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Nucleus basalis

6
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Nucleus basalis is involved in blank

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Alzheimers

7
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Blank functions of progressing alzheimers disease last a lot longer than blank

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Motor, cognitive/memory

8
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Average life expectancy for alzheimers

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8 years

9
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Autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and destruction of myelin

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Multiple sclerosis

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