SLPA 3704 Chapter Notes - Chapter Notes: Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis, Syphilis

• School: UWG, West Georgia
• Department: Speech Language Pathology
• Course: SLPA 3704
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Inflammation and damage to midbrain, basal ganglia, and substantia nigra. Initiating/ controlling volitional movement, inhibiting non volitional movement. Unilateral tremor in an extremity contralateral to affected hemisphere. Removal of portions of or entire cerebral hemisphere. Hiv/aids: neurological symptoms, inability to learn new information, slowed processing, disfluent speech, impaired recall, reduced attention, language is often unaffected, mild to severe language deficits have been reported. Creutzfeldt-jacob disease: degenerative and fatal brain disease caused by a prion, affects the cns, symptoms include, dementia with rapid onset and involuntary movements. Seizures: mild-moderate seizures can produce a slowly accumulating level of brain damage to the affected areas over time, severe seizure is capable of creating immediate brain damage or and even death. Partial seizures: pathological electrical overstimulation confined to a limited region of the brain, can create any motor, sensory, or emotional symptom, simple partial seizure, consciousness maintained during seizure, complex partial seizure, causes an altered state of consciousness.