Ms. Rameriez Midterm

What are the symptoms of the patient?

Symptoms include muscle spasms in your legs and arms, depression, and experiencing weight loss.

What is the patient diagnosed with?

These symptoms and the fact that you are 38 years old, this would point to you having Huntington’s Disease. Huntington’s Disease is a genetic disorder that affects your nervous system.

How do you tell the patient that they’re going to die.

I’m afraid that I have some difficult news. You have at most, 25-30 years left to live. We’ve can make is so you can have the best quality of life possible in your remaining time.

What does Huntington’s disease do?

Huntington’s Disease kills your neurons and affects your frontal lobe and basal ganglia (bay-zuhl-gang-glee-uh). This causes a bulge in the frontal horns, which then leaves empty space in your brain. This is important because the frontal lobe and basal ganglia control voluntary movement, emotional processing, learning and memory, personality, and self-control.

What are treatments for Huntington’s Disease

Sadly, there is no permanent cure for Huntington's disease, but there are ways to soften it. Medicine like tetrabenazine (teh-truh-beh-nuh-zeen) can help with involuntary jerking, and olanzapine (ow-lan-zuh-peen) helps with your emotions. But if you want to go with professional therapy, then you can do activities like physiotherapy (fi-zee-uh-theh-ruh-pee) to help with your flexibility and balance.

What is the difference between the Central and Peripheral Nervous System?

The Central Nervous System (CNS) and the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) make Nervous System. The CNS regulates how you think, move, and feel. The PNS is a network of nerves that connect your spinal cord to the rest of the body.

What is the difference between the somatic and autonomic nervous system?

The somatic nervous system is a part of the PNS and is responsible for voluntary body movements in skeletal muscles, stimulates muscle contraction, controls voluntary muscular systems, and mediates instantaneous reactions. The autonomic nervous system is part of the PNS and controls involuntary functions like managing the heart, blood flow, lungs, salivation, and involuntary reactions