NUR 106 (Pharmacology, Chapters 18-19) Questions with Correct
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Seizures
Answer: A brief period of abnormal electrical activity and is a symptom of an abnormality in the nerve cells
of the brain.
Question 2: What changes may you experience during a seizure?
Answer: 1. Person's consciousness 2. Sensory and motor systems 3. Subjective well-being 4. Objective
behavior
Question 3: What are some things that seizures can be a result of?
Answer: 1. Fever 2. Head injury 3. Brain tumor 4. Meningitis 5. Hypoglycemia 6. Drug overdose or
withdrawal 7. Poisoning
Question 4: Epilepsy
Answer: Chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizure activity
Question 5: What are some reasons for someone to have epilepsy?
Answer: 1. Head injury 2. Brain tumor 3. Meningitis 4. Stroke
Question 6: Generalized seizures
Answer: Seizures that affect both hemispheres of the brain and are accompanied by a loss of consciousness
(two types: convulsive or nonconvulsive)
Question 7: Partial seizures
Answer: Begin in a localized area in one hemisphere of the brain (two types: simple and complex;
complex=change in consciousness)
Question 8: Secondary genralization
Answer: The process that involves the evolvement of simple and complex partial seizures into generalized
seizures
Question 9: How is epilepsy treated?
Answer: Anticonvulsants drugs (AKA: Antiepileptic drugs)
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Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Seizures
Answer: A brief period of abnormal electrical activity and is a symptom of an abnormality in the nerve cells
of the brain.
Question 2: What changes may you experience during a seizure?
Answer: 1. Person's consciousness 2. Sensory and motor systems 3. Subjective well-being 4. Objective
behavior
Question 3: What are some things that seizures can be a result of?
Answer: 1. Fever 2. Head injury 3. Brain tumor 4. Meningitis 5. Hypoglycemia 6. Drug overdose or
withdrawal 7. Poisoning
Question 4: Epilepsy
Answer: Chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizure activity
Question 5: What are some reasons for someone to have epilepsy?
Answer: 1. Head injury 2. Brain tumor 3. Meningitis 4. Stroke
Question 6: Generalized seizures
Answer: Seizures that affect both hemispheres of the brain and are accompanied by a loss of consciousness
(two types: convulsive or nonconvulsive)
Question 7: Partial seizures
Answer: Begin in a localized area in one hemisphere of the brain (two types: simple and complex;
complex=change in consciousness)
Question 8: Secondary genralization
Answer: The process that involves the evolvement of simple and complex partial seizures into generalized
seizures
Question 9: How is epilepsy treated?
Answer: Anticonvulsants drugs (AKA: Antiepileptic drugs)
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