Author: Glossary

The use of ultrasound to obtain diagnostic images of the brain, cranial bones, intracranial and extracranial vascular structures, ventricles, and spinal cord.  

Operation for the relief of neuralgia by resection of a wall of the osseous canal carrying a nerve and transplanting the nerve to soft tissues.  

Radiography of the structures of the nervous system.  

The study of the effects of drugs on mental illness.  

Embryonic opening from the neural canal to the exterior.  

The expanded tips of the axon terminals at a synapse.  

The ability of the nervous system to adapt to trauma or disease; the ability of nerve cells to grow and form new connections to other neurons.  

In occupational and physical therapy, various techniques used in sensorimotor rehabilitation that rely on voluntary and involuntary activation, facilitation, and inhibition of muscle action through the reflex arc.  

Proteins secreted by the hypothalamus that are involved in the transport of oxytocin and antidiuretic hormone (vasopressin).  

A tic or spasm of the muscles of speech resulting in an involuntary cry or sound.