Exam 12: Nervous System and Mental Health

Difficulty in controlling use of a drug is

What is the term for an exaggerated sense of physical and emotional well-being not based on reality, disproportionate to the cause, and inappropriate to the situation?

Recurrent, unpredictable attacks of severe anxiety not restricted to any particular situation are

Inflammation of many nerves is

Dizziness is

Inability or difficulty with reading and/or writing is

A radiograph of the spinal canal after the introduction of a radiopaque substance is

What motor function disorder is a result of permanent, nonprogressive brain defect or lesion caused perinatally?

What is the term for the state in which the body becomes accustomed to the substances ingested, requiring greater amounts to create the desired effect?

The term for the skin surface supplied by a single afferent nerve is

Fear of scrutiny by other people is

What is a degenerative, fatal disease of the motor neurons in which patients exhibit progressive muscle weakness and atrophy?

Incision of the spinal cord to relieve pain is

Resection of the dorsal root of a spinal nerve to relieve pain is

A malignant tumor of star-shaped glial cells is called a(n)

Disorders characterized by fundamental distortions of thinking and perception coupled with affects that are inappropriate or blunted are

Slight paralysis of the arms, legs, and trunk is

Displacement of a disk in the spine, causing nerve pain, is

Mild, chronic depression of mood that lasts for years but is not severe enough to justify a diagnosis of depression is

A localized collection of blood, usually clotted, in an organ, tissue, or space, caused by a break in the wall of a blood vessel is a(n)