Serious car crashes can trigger a case of dissociative amnesia. Brian Stablyk/Getty Images People involved in a serious car crash or victims of violent crimes sometimes cannot remember the incident. When amnesia follows an external traumatic event like this, doctors call it dissociative, or psyc...
Which vertebral curvature abnormality is the most serious and why? Explain how the process of atrophy could be accomplished. What is the cause (etiology) of hydrocephalus? A) How is the plasticity of the brain throughout life evident in recovery from brain damage? B) What are some factors th...
A brain tumor is found in a CT scan of Mr. Child's head. The physician is assuming that it is not a secondary tumor (i.e. it did not spread from another part of the body) because an exhaustive workup has revealed no ...
The inflammation in my lymph node and occasional flare-ups were most likely associated with the swelling in my left frontal lobe due to the tumor pushing into the brain. There were more tests to come once the tumors were discovered. I was scheduled for a field of vision test and an EEG....
Diffusion MRI can also be used for monitoring treatment efficacy, giving information on whether therapy is effective or not at an early stage, before actual changes to the tumor size can be detected, saving several weeks or months if a switch to another treatment has to be made, as has ...
is currently in; the organ of equilibrium behind the ears informs us about our current position, while our eyes provide us with a visual orientation of the entire room. In the CNS, it is first the somatosensory cortex in the parietal lobe that processes the input from, e.g., Merkel ...