CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS

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CENTRAL NERVOUSSYSTEM DISORDERS

• Week 7. LECTURE OUTLINE

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BRAIN INJURY

• Types of brain injury
• Results of raised intracranial pressure
• Loss of consciousness
• Brain death

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CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE

• Normal brain protection
• Hypoxic damage to the CNS
• CVA TIA
• Stroke - occlusion
• Intracerebral hemorrhage
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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TRAUMA, TUMOURS, SEIZURES

• Trauma- concussion, contusion, hematoma
• Types of tumours
• Types of seizures and their treatment

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DEMENTIAS AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE

• Dementias
• Parkinson's Disease

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ALTERED MOTOR FUNCTION

• Normal motor control
• Disorders of the neuromuscular unit
• Peripheral nerve injury and repair
• Guillain-Barre syndrome
• Spinal cord injury

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ALTERATIONS IN SPECIAL SENSES SIGHT

• Eye
• Conjunctivitis
• Trachoma
• Glaucoma closed angle / open angle
• Cataract
• Retinopathy

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ALTERATIONS IN SPECIAL SENSES HEARING AND BALANCE

• Ear
• External ear obstruction, otitis externa
• Middle ear otitis media Inner ear
• Hearing - sensorineural hearing loss
• Cochlear implants
• Balance - vestibular dysfunction motion sickness
• Meniere's syndrome