Quiz: Brain & Nervous System Disorders

It is a neurological condition that causes sudden paralysis or weakness on one side of the face. 

• Bell's palsy

• Huntington disease

• Parkinson's disease

• Alzheimer's disease

It is best known as an intense headache that is being held for long periods of time or over multiple days.

• Epilepsy

• Neuralgia

• Migraine

• Meningitis

Which of the following is NOT a degenerative (getting worse over time) disorder involving the nervous system?

• Migraine

• Huntington

• Parkinson

• Alzheimer

It is a is a rare, inherited, and progressive neurological disorder caused by a mutation in a specific gene.

• Alzheimer

• Huntington

• Bell's palsy

• Parkinson

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Which of the following is an infection?

• Transient ischemic attack

• Meningitis

• Alzheimer's disease

• Bell's palsy

A group of brain disorders characterized by repeated seizures over time

• epilepsy

• dementia

• meningitis

• cerebral palsy

A group of nervous system disorders resulting

from brain damage before or during birth, or in

early infancy

• cerebral palsy

• epilepsy

• multiple sclerosis

• dementia

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A condition involving a progressive loss of brain

function with major consequences for memory,

thinking, and behavior

• epilepsy

• multiple sclerosis

• dementia

• Alzheimer's disease

A chronic, slowly progressive disease of the

central nervous system that destroys the myelin

sheath of nerve cell axons

• multiple sclerosis

• epilepsy

• Parkinson's disease

• Alzheimer's disease

Spina Bifida

• Spinal Cord is exposed at birth

• Mylein Sheath of nerve cells begins to die

• is inherited

• Caused from an infection

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