<Event: NeuroMinute> #3!

Each question answered will earn you one prize from the normal category (any color!).

#1: What nucleotide is repeating in huntington's disease?

#2: L-dopa, a common drug for the treatment of parkinsons (a dopamine precursor), may cause what side effect over time? (Negative side effect, and prominent. I'm not looking for an answer like "sleepieh" "good taste in (Justin) Biebar".)

#3: What is Brown-Sequard syndrome (this one is so cool to me x33333!!!!!!)?

#4: What is the WADA test? (In specifics as a guide line: (1) What is injected (2) Where is it injected (3) What are its effects (and are these effects localized?) and (4) What is it attempting to test (What function).)

 

Brown-Séquard syndrome is characterized by loss of motor function, loss of vibration sense and fine touch, loss of proprioception, loss of two-point discrimination, and signs of weakness, on the ipsilateral of the spinal injury.

 

And if we speak of the contralateral side :3?

 

i think i can answer the 1st question from watching a spesific episode of Scrubs.. if im not mistaken..
i'll try to get the answer

 

I'll give you a hint

Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thiamine, or you could go out on a limb and guess Uracil...

 

Wut?

 

It's one of the distinguishing features of it

XD

"Brown-Séquard syndrome is characterized by loss of motor function, loss of vibration sense and fine touch, loss of proprioception, loss of two-point discrimination, and signs of weakness, on the ipsilateral of the spinal injury"

Those are what I call the "boring" parts, because they are what you'd expect.

But Brown-Sequard applies interesting parts of the actual anatomy of how the various nerves across the spinal cord, specifically where and when, and this syndrome produces a very cool effect!

 

It's also soo ridiculously obvious he wouldn't give a shit about the accent grave on the 'e' in Sequard if he wasn't copy-pasting.

 

I am aware D: :<

But... here I can't be too picky. Let's face it, if people could pick these facts out of their ass like me; I may have difficulties in my career xD

 

Hmmm... I have a question too. WTF IS THIS?

 

i take every subject of every question, read about it on wiki and try to understand what im reading ( excessive google translate usage)
buttttttt i think i can get all of your questions if i spend enough time

 

Me spreading my neuro-love around. And people winning prizes !!!!

Excellent :33333!

You can win multiple times ya kno

 

dude i know so much more about parkinson's disease now, more than i ever thought i would know

 

YAY MY EVENT IS WORKING :3333 :d

 

#1 was rather easy, the repeating nucleotides are CAG - cytosine-adenine-guanine
#2 i read soo much but i am still not sure.. im guessing the side effect over time is hypotension

and now i need a break ><

 

#1: Yes CAG repeats :3 !

#2: I can give you the answer if you want

 

Bump bump, we need more winners!

 

Too easy.


1. Canadians.
2. Canucks.
3. Bacon.
4. Buff Canuck.

 

Buff Canuk can infact paraluze peopels hemisphere

 

#1: The gene is made up of a series of three nucleotides which form the structure of DNA in the gene. Each gene has its own unique sequence of base pairs. In Huntington disease, the DNA sequence, CAG(cytosine-adenine-guanine), is part of this sequence. This sequence may be duplicated many times in individuals, up to 26 times in the general population. The duplication of this segment is called a "trinucleotide repeat" in which these three nucleotides (CAG pattern) are repeated over and over again. Individuals with Huntington disease may have from 40 to over 100 repeated CAG segments.

#2: Possible serotonin depletion, Possible dopamine dysregulation or Dopamine dysregulation syndrome

#3: is a loss of sensation and motor function, paralysis and ataxia that is caused by the lateral hemisection (cutting) of the spinal cord.

#4: The Wada test, known as the "intracarotid sodium amobarbital procedure" (ISAP), is used to establish cerebral language and memory representation of each hemisphere.


The test is conducted with the patient awake.
Essentially, a barbiturate (which is usually sodium amobarbital) is introduced into one of the internal carotid arteries via a cannula or intra-arterial catheter from the femoral artery.
The drug is injected into one hemisphere at a time.
The effect is to shut down any language and/or memory function in that hemisphere in order to evaluate the other hemisphere ("half of the brain").
Then the patient is engaged in a series of language and memory related tests.
The memory is evaluated by showing a series of items or pictures to the patient so that within a few minutes as soon as the effect of the medication is dissipated, the ability to recall can be tested.
There is currently great variability in the processes used to administer the test, and so it is difficult to compare results from one patient to the other.