What are some structural abnormalities of the brain?

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I'm going to report in class and the teacher told me to report about structural abnormalities of the brain. Can you please give me what are these abnormalities? I only know AVM, brain tumor. I wonder what are the others. Thank you.

Specializes in ER/ICU/STICU.
dude, if you don't like it, deal.

leslie

Deal with what? Your ability to google things for people? There is a growing trend on this site where homework is done for everyone. So much to the point that posters who don't even bother to google something simple let alone research something from peer reviewed journals. I just hope they properly reference these posts on the reference page. I figured since all the answers ate being served up on a silver platter I could jump on that gravy train.

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Specializes in LTC.

If you look at the OP's prior posts, you will see an interesting history of asking the same kind of questions.

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If you look at the OP's prior posts, you will see an interesting history of asking the same kind of questions.

good point, brazoria.

thanks.

leslie

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
If you look at the OP's prior posts, you will see an interesting history of asking the same kind of questions.

Feb 2009. . . July 2010 . . . August 2010. . . same basic questions with enough links to last several lifetimes.

Here's one from a 2010 reply that I "borrowed" :) because it looks interesting!

The Whole Brain Atlas

http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.htm

Animations showing how hundreds of drugs affect the central nervous system (cool)

http://pharmacologycorner.com/pharmacology-animations/

An fMRI animation of a guy's brain set to the William Tell Overture (old, b&w)

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

:rolleyes:

esme, i know what you're saying, and up until today, i've always supported researching assignments yourself.

but when i sit back with echoes of remarks about members being far too hard on students, i could see where this was a valid complaint.

seriously, a sequence of posts that belittle or humiliate the poster, is not cool at all...

and can understand how we could run or scare members away.

perhaps i was too impulsive in providing that link (because it was so easily searchable), and will think twice before i post one again, allthe millions who watch this website.

the last thing i want to do is have members quit, because we were seen as unapproachable.:twocents:

leslie of us members who've been around an's, need to remind ourselves on how we appear to non-members, lurkers and

eta: esme, i see that you pretty much, linked op to lists as well.

what's the difference betw your overall link vs my singular one?

None Leslie. The comment about benefitting from homework was not you.:hug:......I was actually addressing the poster. And I think chk23 was being sarcastic and saying "Oh yeah and can you write it too....." It makes me wonder why they don't google things, they obviously have a computer.........I remember The reference librarian would point to the section and say "up there...got a problem?" but no one looked it up for me....:cool:. I don't mind presenting links and a lot of the time I use "Let me Google that for you" because it leads them to google and they have to look at the sites themselves.

But when a student posts a math question I don't give a patootie if they think I'm mean because I won't figure it out for them.....they have to learn sometime....:rolleyes:. I think this particular generation is very accustom to having things done for them with a minimal of effort with askwiki and other sites that provide the answer to the students with no attention as to the how and why they got there.:smackingf and then they don't understand when they don't do well in school. I answer sometimes according to whether or not it seems they have done any work themselves or not. I go and read their past posts to see if it is help they look for or answers and try to formulate the information accordingly.....actually I'm thinking of setting up a web based tutoring business:idea:.....interested in partnering????:lol2:

I think the students of today need to get their panties out of a twist and grow up to realize not everything is easy nor automatic...............and I'm more than willing to help those who help themselves.......:smokin:

I like you leslie......K

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.

I agree...and I don't know about you all or the OP school, but I had to take a research class.....I am really getting weary of the people who come on the board and ask to have their homework done for them and frankly, if that is the sole purpose of them posting and they have nothing of value to add, I have no problem with them being "scared away"!!!! BOO!!

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I think it is knowing how to pick the right key words. If you google with the wrong phorifice you can get wealth of unnecessary information...:bugeyes:

I also had to take a research paper writing course, english comp two was the class that is in addition to Sociology, global politics and a number of classes that required writing research papers... Learning how to get the right phrase together for my research was always the trick for me... Guess I am just slowwwww:cool: But, I did not give up, just started early:lol2:

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I think it is knowing how to pick the right key words. If you google with the wrong phorifice you can get wealth of unnecessary information...:bugeyes:

I also had to take a research paper writing course, english comp two was the class that is in addition to Sociology, global politics and a number of classes that required writing research papers... Learning how to get the right phrase together for my research was always the trick for me... Guess I am just slowwwww:cool: But, I did not give up, just started early:lol2:

Another excellent reason why the person needing the info needs to get it themselves, to weed through what isn't pertinent to their particular paper. :) Patients don't come with google buttons... gotta get the skills to look up info themselves- and PLEASE, don't go to an actual book :D LOL

I think the most help anyone here can be is to guide anyone to find the info for their homework projects on their own- they remember more, and it's actually their homework :). JMHO

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

I would have killed for the internet back in the day of the dinosaurs. Remember going through the card catalog looking for the titles? Then finding the book you wanted to retrieve from aisles and multiple shelves, then finding in the particular section itself! It probably took 10 min at least and that was just to find the book! LOL

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.
I would have killed for the internet back in the day of the dinosaurs. Remember going through the card catalog looking for the titles? Then finding the book you wanted to retrieve from aisles and multiple shelves, then finding in the particular section itself! It probably took 10 min at least and that was just to find the book! LOL

Lord yes, not to mention how outdated the material was....now we can access the latest research with the click of a mouse!!! It's really amazing how far we have come....jeez, if things were like that then...I'd have my PhD by now!!!!:lol2:

(I'm real modest as you can see);)

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I would have killed for the internet back in the day of the dinosaurs. Remember going through the card catalog looking for the titles? Then finding the book you wanted to retrieve from aisles and multiple shelves, then finding in the particular section itself! It probably took 10 min at least and that was just to find the book! LOL

Yep, been there, did that and even remember learning how to decipher the little dewey decimal number...:o

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
I would have killed for the internet back in the day of the dinosaurs. Remember going through the card catalog looking for the titles? Then finding the book you wanted to retrieve from aisles and multiple shelves, then finding in the particular section itself! It probably took 10 min at least and that was just to find the book! LOL

It is amazing what you can find now with just you and a keyboard or even (gasp!) a phone!!

In a way I miss the library treks, though. A few summers I worked as a "go-fer" for a group of gero-psych researchers (as an assistant to the assistant :)) she'd hand me a list of really weird articles to track down - if I found it I felt like eureka!! There was a thrill-of-the-hunt aspect to it, and I actually liked climbing up rickety metal stacks where one foot on the wrong ladder rung could send you plummeting to your death or at least land on the table that a group of medical students is sitting at. Basements of libraries are fun, too. Sometimes they stash the cards still in their wooden drawers in library basements looking forlorn.

I would not want to give up the instant access to info, but still . . .I've always loved the ambience of libraries.

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