Nuero Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Loss of comprehension
  2. 3. Inability to recognize an object by sight, touch, or hearing
  3. 7. Occurs from injury to a blood vessel wall and formation of a blood clot
  4. 10. Disturbance in the muscular control of speech; impairment may involve pronunciation, articulation, and phonation
  5. 11. Uncontrolled electrical discharge of neurons in the brain that interrupts normal function. May accompany a variety of disorders, or may occur spontaneously without any apparent cause.
  6. 12. The middle meningeal artery lying under the temporal bone is often torn
  7. 14. Specialized macrophage capable of phagocytosi, protect the neurons
  8. 15. Produced in neurons of CNS and neurosecretory cells of adrenal medulla. Critical component of the fight-or-flight response of SNS
  9. 17. Occurs from bleeding between the dura mater and the arachnoid layer of the meninges
  10. 19. Protects the brain from external trauma
  11. 20. Involves a sudden onset of maintained increased tone in the extensor muscles
  12. 25. An nvolntary response to stimuli,play an important role in mainaing tonne, which is essential forbody posture
  13. 28. A condition in which a person has spontaneous recurring seizures caused by a chronic underlying condition
  14. 31. Line the brain ventricles and aid in the secretion of cerebral fluid
  15. 32. Contains the cell bodies of voluntary motor neurons, preganglionic autonomic motor neurons, and association neurons (interneurons)
  16. 36. procedure to cut and temporarily remove a piece of skull bone (bone flap) to access the brain
  17. 37. Composed of the right and left cerebral hemispheres Divided into four lobes: frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital
  18. 39. An abnormal posture that can include rigidity, arms and legs held straight out, toes pointed downward, head and neck arched backward
  19. 41. 12 paired nerves composed of cell bodies with fibers that exit from the cranial cavity
  20. 42. A ring of vessel conneing the anteior and posterior circulations of the brain
  21. 43. The structural and functional junction between two neurons. Point at which the nerve impulse is transmitted from one neuron to another
  22. 44. Makes up the outer layer of the cerebral hemispheres
  23. 47. Sudden transient mechanical head injury with disruption of neural activity and a change in the LOC
  24. 48. Chemicals that affect the transmission of impulses across the synaptic cleft
  25. 49. Major relay center for afferent inputs to the cerebral cortex
  26. 50. Chemicals that affect the transmission of impulses across the synaptic cleft
Down
  1. 2. Occurs when an embolus lodges in and occludes a cerebral artery, resulting in infarction and edema of the area supplied by the involved vessel
  2. 4. An injury to the brain caused by an external force
  3. 5. Concerned with emotion, aggression, feeding behavior, and sexual response.
  4. 6. excessive builupof CSF
  5. 8. one-sided musle paralysis or weakness
  6. 9. inability to prodce language
  7. 13. Produced in several areas of brain. Involved in emotions and moods and regulating motor control
  8. 16. Results from inadequate blood flow to the brain from partial or complete occlusion of an artery
  9. 18. Found primrily in gray matter and provide structiral support to neurons
  10. 21. Bleeding int h subthalamic areas of the brin (problem with vision an eye movement)
  11. 22. Account for approximately 15% of all strokes. Result from bleeding into the brain tissue itself
  12. 23. occurs when a mass lesion in the cerebrum forces the brain to herniate downward through the opening created by the brainstem
  13. 24. Usually occurs within the frontal and temporal lobes, possibly from rupture of intracerebral vessels at the time of injury
  14. 26. Carrie nerve impulses to other neurons or to end organs
  15. 27. The inability to carry out learned sequential movements on command
  16. 29. Thin wall of dura that folds down between the cortex, separating the two cerebral hemispheres
  17. 30. Provide support, noursihment, and protection to neurons
  18. 33. A type of nonfluent aphasia. Frequently speak in short phrases tht make snense but produced with great effort.
  19. 34. Occurs when there is either an ischemia (inadequate blood flow) to a part of the brain or hemorrhage into the brain that results in death of brain cells
  20. 35. The most common cause of Hemorrhagic Stroke
  21. 38. Distorted representation of the human body, based on a neurological "map" of the areas and proportions of the human brain dedicated to processing motor functions, or sensory functions, for different parts of the body.
  22. 40. Specialized cells that produces the myelin sheath of nerve fiber in the CNS
  23. 45. Area of skin innervated by the sensory fibers of a single dorsal root of a spinal nerve Give a general picture of somatic sensory innervation by spinal segments
  24. 46. Consist of three protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord: dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater