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The blood vessel that sends electrical signals from the eye to the brain is not a blood vessel but rather the optic nerve. The optic nerve transmits visual information from the retina, where light is converted into electrical signals, to the brain for processing. This nerve plays a crucial role in vision, connecting the eye to the visual cortex in the brain.
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What are two ways that a Cerebrovascular Accident can occur?
A stroke can occur in two ways. In an ischemic stroke, a blood clot blocks or plugs a blood vessel or artery in the brain. About 80 percent of all strokes are ischemic. In an hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel in the brain breaks and bleeds into the brain. About 20 percent of strokes are hemorrhagic.
Is the basilar involved in blood flow to the brain?
The basilar artery is a key blood vessel in the brain that supplies blood to the brainstem and the posterior cerebral circulation. It arises from the merging of the two vertebral arteries and plays a crucial role in delivering oxygenated blood to various parts of the brain.
How does a stroke causes brain damage?
A stroke is a injury within the brain. There are two basic types; ischemic and hemorrhagic. In an ischemic stroke, a blockage in a blood vessel occurs within the brain, cutting off the flow of blood carrying oxygen and sugars to the brain tissue. In a hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel has burst within the brain, flooding an area of brain tissue. Depending on the area affected within the brain, there could be many different affects. Stroke victims frequently experience physical weakness in one or more extremity, or difficulty speaking or seeing.
How is a nerve signal transmitted from the point of sense to the brain and back?
When a stimulus is detected by a sensory nerve ending, it creates an electrical signal that travels along the nerve fiber to the spinal cord or brain. In the brain, the signal is processed, and a response is generated. The response signal then travels back along motor nerves to the muscles or organs to carry out the appropriate action.
What do you call the condition where there is an uncontrolled flow of blood within the brain?
The condition is called a hemorrhagic stroke. It occurs when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures, leading to bleeding and subsequent damage to brain tissue. Immediate medical attention is necessary to prevent further complications.
What is a swollen blood vessel in your brain?
A swollen blood vessel in the brain is called a brain aneurysm. It is a potentially life-threatening condition where a weakened area in a blood vessel in the brain balloons and fills with blood. If an aneurysm ruptures, it can cause a hemorrhagic stroke.
What is an anuerism?
A cerebral or brain aneurysm is a cerebrovascular disease in which weakness in the wall of veins causes a localized dilation or ballooning of the blood vessel. The bursting of an aneurysm in blood vessel can cause brain death.
What is a blood vessel that rhymes the brain?
vein
What is the difference between a brain bleed and an aneurysm?
Hematoma is blood pooled outside the blood vessel, aneurysm is a bulging of a blood vessel.
What blood vessel breaks open if aneurysm is present?
An Aneurysm is usually a blood vessel in the brain, that balloons, then breaks.
What's Stroke?
Burst blood vessel in the brain
What creates the electrical signal in your heart?
neural impulses from the brain
If you rupture a blood vessel can you die?
Yes. It depends on the blood vessel and where it is, but yes a rupture to a blood vessel can kill you. A blood vessel is more likely to "pop" or rupture if it has an aneurysm, which is a local weakness where the blood vessel has stretched from the pressure of the blood. This is more likely to result in death if it is in a large blood vessel or in a critical location, such as the aorta or a vessel in the brain.
A what usually invalves a rupture or a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain?
A stroke can be caused by bleeding on the brain.
Is it possible to cough a piece of your brain?
No, but you can burst a weak blood vessel.
A stroke occurs in the?
Heart, neck, or brain. It can also be a blood vessel
What are two ways that a Cerebrovascular Accident can occur?
A stroke can occur in two ways. In an ischemic stroke, a blood clot blocks or plugs a blood vessel or artery in the brain. About 80 percent of all strokes are ischemic. In an hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel in the brain breaks and bleeds into the brain. About 20 percent of strokes are hemorrhagic.
