| A | B |
|---|
| Acrophobia | fear of heights |
| Agoraphobia | fear of crowds, public places |
| Amnesia | loss of memory |
| Anesthetist | Med specialist administers anesthetics |
| Aphasia | loss of ability to understand or use speech |
| Catatonic | immobile or unresponsive stupor |
| Cerebral vascular accident | med term for stroke |
| Claustrophobia | fear of small places |
| Cognition | aquiring knowledge, understanding |
| Concussion | confusion or incapacity from blow to head |
| Dyslexia | reading disorders based on inability to interpret spatial relationships |
| Dissociative disorders | breakdown in memory, awareness or perception |
| Ganglion | Group of nerves |
| Glial cells | Cells provide support to nerve cells |
| Hematoma | Blood clot within tissues |
| Hyperesthesia | excessive physical sensitivity |
| Insomnia | Inability to sleep |
| Innervation | supply of nerves to a part |
| Kleptomania | recurrent urge to steal |
| Meningitis | Inflammation of meninges by viral or bact |
| Migraine | recurrent throbbing headache |
| Narcolepsy | tendency to fall asleep |
| Neurons | specialized cell tranmitting nerve impulses |
| Paresthesia | tingling sensation caused by damage |
| Phobia | Fear of something |
| Phobia headache | Headache caused by anxiety |
| Plexus | Network of nerves or vessels |
| Psychiatrist | Medical doctor specializes in Psyche |
| Pyromania | Desire to set things on fire |
| Radiculitis | Pain radiated along nerve from inflammation |
| Receptors | Specialized cell responding to light, heat |
| Reflex | Action performed w/o consciousness |
| Restless legs syndrome | Twitching sensation in legs |
| Syncope | Loss of consciousness due to fall in BP |
| Somnambulism | Sleep walking |
| Stimulus | event that triggers a response |
| Synapse | gap between nerve cells |
| Tract | Large bundle of nerves |
