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WorksheetsNervous System Disorders
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which nervous disorder is due to failure of the brain to develop normally from a young age?
Mental illness
Neurosis
Mental Handicap
Epilepsy
If anxiety or depression becomes so excessive that it interferes with normal living, a person may be suffering from _______________?
Neurosis
Psychosis
Dementia
Schizophrenia
An extreme fear of enclosed spaces is known as:
arachnophobia
agoraphobia
claustrophobia
acrophobia
A Grand mal seizure (epilepsy) is when unconsciousness is accompanied by:
Headache
Migraine
Convulsions
Mania
In which group of mental illness does the person be out of touch with reality and are unaware that their behavior is considered abnormal?
Neurosis
Psychosis
What is the name given for a severe one sided headache lasting a few hours to a whole day?
(a)
This disease of the nervous system is caused by a loss of brain cells resulting in absent mindedness, confusion, loss of the ability to think, and loss of personality:
(a)
In which form of psychosis does the person be emotionally distant and cool and withdraw into an unreal world with delusions and hallucinations?
Schizophrenia
Manic Depression
You would restrain the limbs of a patient having an attack of epilepsy in order to prevent him from hurting himself.
True
False
German measles infection during early pregnancy may cause mental handicap in the baby born?
True
False
Multiple sclerosis (MS) usually affects people in these categories:
Females ages
20-30
Males ages
40-50
Both sexes ages
20-50
Both sexes ages 30-60
_________ ____________, caused by head injury , meningitis and poisoning (eg. by lead) may have similar effects to mental handicap.
(a)
This neurosis can be the cause of fainting, dizziness, headaches, tremor, sweating, poor concentration, diarrhea, breathlessness and sexual difficulties:
Mania
Depression
Anxiety
Schizophrenia
