PSY 260-L15 Q5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Myasthenia Gravis | "Severe Muscle Weakness" -autoimmune disorder that attacks cholinergic receptors in muscle -treat with drugs that block AChE |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | -aka LouGehrig's Disease -Loss of all motor control -only effects motor neurons |
| Prefrontal Cortex | involved in memory, making decisions and plans, discovering consequences |
| Movement Selection | Premotor and supplementary motor areas |
| Movement Initiation | Primary motor cortex (precentral gyrus) -somatotopic organization, mapping of body |
| Cerebellum | -basic movements, once it goes it goes -sequences of movements -timing of movements |
| Basal Ganglia | -connections to motor cortex -controls motor function -can excite of inhibit motor cortex, controlling movement |
| Basal Ganglia Disorders | -Huntington's disease -Parkinson's disease |
| Huntington's Disease | -symptoms evident in 30's-40's -chorea, parachinesia -eventual slowness of movement and death -dementia, depression, anxiety, OCD |
| Chorea | Excessive "dance-like" movements |
| Parachinesia | When you try and disguise the involuntary movements |
| Parkinson's Disease | 1817 James Parkinson "shaking palsy" -refer to slide |
| Neuropathology of Parkinson's Disease | loss of dopaminergic cells in the substantia nigra, contained within a midbrain. This leads to reduction and slowness of movement |
| Treatments | -L-dopa -fetal tissue transplant |
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