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NELIROLOGICAL EXAMINATION LusnLINVOLVEMENT
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level of involvement
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neuron
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cerebral hemisphere -
axan
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pyramidal tracts -

synaptic cleft



ORP NELROLOGICAL CONDITIONS higher function centers neurotransmitter
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pasterior fassa neural
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pool
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carebellum -
neural circuit /afferent 3
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infective/inflammatory (subacute onset) >
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extrapyramidal tracts efferent)
diensephalon brain stem
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bleeding Strauma) non traumatis/ >
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,
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SNS Structure
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seizuresStypes) >
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cranial nerve -
links between CNS structures
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myopathy >
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autonomic NS
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tumars(weeks to months) >
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spinal said
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degenerative process >
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spinal neove roots
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metabolic/ toxicity >
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peripheral nerva

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TBI >
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UMN vs . LMN lesions




NERVOUS SYSTEM ANATOMY PHYSIOLOGY
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- motor
> cognition
FLINCTIONAL AREAS OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX BASAL NUCLE) emotional




= sensory BRAIN STEM
DIENGEPHALON higher functions
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STHAJAMUS) of the brain

Reticular Formation
V

autonomic NS higher
functions
AKA
↑ pyrimidal
tracts
Long Tracts
V

motor function
V

somatosensary




endocring system
higher functions Cranial Nerves
of the brain V
motor automatic
coordinates movement sensory
> motor plan
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position sensein
. . .

, NERVOUS SYSTEM ANATOMY PHYSIOLOGY CONTINUED ...




SPINAL CORD Spinacerebellar Tracts SYNAPSES SYNAPTIC CLEFT :
INFORMATION TRANSFER

UPPER MOTOR NEURONS
of weakness/dysfunction
signs
, :



hyperreflexia
↳ ↑ muscle stretch reflexors
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slonus
↳ rhythmic sontrastian of
antagonist muscles

hypertonia
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↳> i tone of skeletal muscles

pain extensor plantar response
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< temperature ( Babinski sign)
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gross touch
Somatosensary Tracts


position sense vibration fine touch
sense

L


injury to one side of the brain will
show ↓ somatosensory on the
other side of the body



TYPES OF CIRCUITS IN NEURONAL
ALTONOMIC NERVOLS SYSTEM
efferent
POOLS
neuvans




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divergent -
one incoming fiber stimulates ever increasing number of
fibers ,
often amplifying circuits




"fight or flight" "best digest"

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