NEUR 1203 Lecture 1: Introduction to neurological disease

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 1203
• Professor: Ashley Thompson

Document Summary

Is the language we use important: absolutely, why, e. g. Incidence: the number of new cases of a disorder in a given time period (usually a year) Approximately 6,200 new cases of parkinson"s disease are diagnosed each year in. Canada (or 20 new diagnoses per 100,000 people: prevalence: percentage of the population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period. Over 100,000 canadians are currently living with parkinson"s: lifetime prevalence: percentage of people who have been diagnosed with a specific disorder at any time in their lives. In addition to a complete medical history and physical exam, there are a multitude of diagnostic procedures that may be used to investigate nervous system disorders: e. g. Mri, eeg, lumbar puncture, evoked potentials: the brain: major lobes, how did we find out which brain areas are responsible for certain functions (e. g. language, memory, decision-making), by accident a lot of the time (head trauma/resulting functional impairments).