Categories: uncategorized
Date: 16 March 2007 03:26:16
Good news everyone! The university has installed a new wireless access point somewhere near my PBL room. So I can wiblog FROM PBL!
So anyway, we are currently discussing migraines. And getting nowhere because "science" can't adequately explain everything so how on earth would we come up with anything.
Words being thrown around:
hypoperfusion
hyperperfusion
hypoxic
hyperoxic
inhibition
excitation
magic*
vasodilation
vasoconstriction
serotonin
photophobia
phonophobia
aura
pain
visual fortification scotoma
hemiplegia
disorientation
somatosensory
stretch receptors
contralateral
ipsilateral
dysdiadokinesis^
spreading depression
gah! this is a waste of time!
glutamate
depolarisation
neuro#
paradoxical
geographical agnosia
ambrosia%
* is my explanation of the topic
^ nothing to do with migraines. A good word though.
# if you add neuro- to the beginning of a word, it becomes relevant to neurology!
% also nothing to do with migraines. But sounds like agnosia - someone with phonemic dysphasia may say ambrosia instead of agnosia.