Strokes and Effect on Brain Functioning and Behavior
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The brain is the center of human activity and there are processes that may come along to derail the brain's normal functioning. Some of these disruptive processes are known as neurological disorders. Neurological disorders may affect different areas like movement, perception, and language. Cerebrovascular accidents or strokes are a form of neurological disorder.
Where exactly does the impairment occur in the nervous system? What are the neural mechanisms affected this Neurological disorders? How do they translate into behavior changes?
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Cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) are basically when blood stops getting to a specific part of the brain and there is a rapidly developing loss of brain function. The fancy word for this type of damage is "ischemia."
There are a number of ways that this can happen but the most common types are an aneurysm, which is a rupture or a hemorrhage of a blood vessel, and a stroke, which is a blockage of a blood vessel. Blood is very important to the brain because it carries oxygen and glucose (a fancy word for sugar) to all of the neurons in the brain. Without oxygen and glucose, the neurons cannot make energy and they will ...
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