Categorias: Todos - muscles - recognition - equilibrium - brain

por CAMILA BORRÁS 4 anos atrás

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BILINGUAL ACTIVITY

The text discusses various medical conditions and concepts related to the human body's self-regulation and neurological functions. Homeostatic function refers to the body's ability to maintain stable internal conditions through feedback control systems.

BILINGUAL ACTIVITY

BROWN SEQUARD

is a rare neurological condition characterized by a lesion in the spinal cord which results in weakness or paralysis (hemiparaplegia) on one side of the body and a loss of sensation (hemianesthesia) on the opposite side.

BENTON FACIAL RECOGNITION TEST

It provides an objective and standardized procedure for evaluating the ability to identify and discriminate photographs of unfamiliar human faces. Stimuli are photographs of unpopular people's faces taken from different angles.

NYSTAGMUS

uncontrollable and involuntary movement (voluntary in rare cases) of the eyes. The movement can be horizontal, vertical, rotary, oblique, or a combination of these.

HOMEOSTATIC FUNCTION

form of dynamic equilibrium that is made possible by a network of feedback control systems that constitute the self-regulation mechanisms of living beings.

SPASTIC TONE

Refers to tight and stiff muscles. It can also be called unusual tension or increased muscle tone.

BILINGUAL ACTIVITY

MIDBRAIN

area that joins the brainstem to the diencephalon and parts of the cerebral cortex. establishes direct communication with many structures of the central nervous system. Without it we could not survive.

PYRAMIDAL SYNDROME

Produced by injury to the pyramidal pathway (first neuron or corticospinal neuron). The syndrome is an evolved lesion of the pathway. pyramidal at the level of the internal capsule.

INCOMPLETE SPINAL INJURY

the ability of the spinal cord to transmit messages to and from the brain has not been completely lost.

PROSOPAGNOSIA

A specific type of visual agnosia characterized by the inability to recognize familiar faces and even in the most severe cases the patient may not recognize himself in a mirror or in a photograph.

DANDY WALKER SYNDROME

spectrum of disorders, disturbance in the development of the fourth ventricle. congenital anomaly, usually appears in childhood