brainstem
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- noun
- /ˈbreɪnˌstɛm/
- Specialized
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tronco encefálico
- Using surface electrodes placed on the skull, researchers at Northwestern University measured how accurately the brainstem processes auditory stimuli.
- auditory brainstem
- brainstem response
- brainstem compression
Well, right in here in the brainstem, the upper part is an area that makes dopamine and dopamine drives our desire for things.
- Well, right in here in the brainstem, the upper part is an area that makes dopamine and dopamine drives our desire for things.
- So the heart is stopped with brain death, which is a cessation of all brain function, both cortical and subcortical brainstem activity.
- Your nervous system is getting into the brainstem
Examples
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A significant percentage of patients with MS exhibit abnormal auditory brainstem responses.
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The patient's post-treatment course was complicated by hydrocephalus and symptoms of brainstem compression, which required urgent surgical intervention.
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"What are we going to do about this older woman with the clot in her brainstem?" she wondered.
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We observed improvement in both brainstem transmission time and language acquisition in all 81 patients.
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One of the major applications of brainstem audiometry is the determination of hearing thresholds in hard-to-test patients.
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For example, in cases of closed head injury, positional nystagmus may result from brainstem concussion, labyrinthine concussion, or both.
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Hypertrophic olivary degeneration is a sequela of a brainstem injury of various etiologies, and its clinical presentation is variable.
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We assessed the evolution of children with delayed maturation of auditory pathways by brainstem evoked response audiometry (BERA).
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Disturbances occurring in other areas of the brainstem and hypothalamus generate symptoms of nausea and vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia, and osmophobia.
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The test that we ran earlier indicates there is no brainstem activity.
Synonyms
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The part of the brain near the spinal cord that controls breathing and heart rate
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The part of the brain at the base that connects to the spinal cord and controls breathing and heart rate
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brainstem comes from the parts brain and stem, and stem is like the plant 'stem' that holds and connects parts. So the brainstem is the central 'stem' of the brain that links it to the spinal cord and controls basic life functions like breathing and heart rate.