Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology 1st Edition by Veronique Tran,Mark Saltzman

Exercise 12

Describe each of the following diseases. What components of the ner- vous system are affected? How do these abnormalities result in impaired function?
a. Epilepsy
b. Schizophrenia
c. Alzheimer's disease
d. Parkinson's disease
e. Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
f. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease)
g. Huntington's disease
h. Myasthenia Gravis
i. Stroke