PSYB65H3 Chapter 16: Clinical and Expt Foundations
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contrary to what is believed the normal adult brain does produce new neurons and neural death is a normal part of brain development. autopsy- provides specific information about the life and health of an individual and why the individual die but also provides important insights about how various diseases/conditions affect the body and possible treatments that could be used. most neurological diseases occur because neurons or glia cells and few people suffer brain damage due to accidents important to look at acute and long term effects to provide proper treatment regimes. frequent causes of brain damage stroke, tumours, and infection (kill cells and produce a lesion) cells such as neurons die in one of two ways: (1) necrosis (homicide) failure to maintain homeostasis within the neuron causes death of the neuron, always an abnormal event can be due to inability to produce atp, changes in [ion], and damage to organelles.
