What You Should Know About Cerebral AneurysmsFrom the Cerebrovascular Imaging and Intervention Committee of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular CouncilRandall T. Higashida, M.D., ChairWhat is a cerebral aneurysm?An aneurysm is a weak area in a blood vessel that usually enlarges. It's ...
Thrombosis is a very scary thing. It can be fatal, and it isn’t always apparent that a blood clot is present. A few years ago, my brother in law was in a serious motorcycle accident without a helmet on. He did have blood clots on the brain, but after he was stabilized doctors wer...
Cerebral blood flow, or CBF, is the circulation of blood through the brain. Blood flows into the brain from the vertebral and carotid arteries in the neck, and leaves mainly through the internal jugular veins, which are also situated in the neck. Inside the brain, cerebral circulation takes ...
The cerebellum, Latin for "little brain", is a plum-sized portion of the brain located below the cerebral hemispheres and behind the brain stem. It's main claim to fame is that it contains half the neurons of the brain despite being only 10% of its size. This is because its main cons...
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The dorsal column is a part of the spinal cord that transports sensory input from the body to the cerebral cortex. Damage to the...
A woman is admitted to the hospital with Bell's palsy caused by an inflamed facial nerve. What symptoms will you, as the attending physician, observe, and how would you test her facial nerve? ___ is a condition resulting from an inflammation of a facial nerve. A) Cerebral pals...
A few minutes after our first ancestor scampered down from a tree and felt the dirt between their hairy crooked, toes, they were jolted upright by a random, cerebral spark that trigged our first ever thought: What the hell are we doing here? For more than two millennia thinkers have been...
What is end-diastolic volume and stroke volume, and what is the difference between them? How does cerebral palsy affect speech? How does a stroke affect the endocrine/lymphatic system? How does a stroke disrupt homeostasis? What is a cerebrovascular accident (stroke)? Explain what happens to br...
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