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Welcome back, it's Doctor Smith again.
I'm going introduce week number three to you,
in week number three we're going to talk about abnormality
in the level of consciousness of the patient,
a term that we use as altered mental status.
And I'm also going to talk about what
happens when a person actually dies, how do
you define death from a heart stoppage to the brain ceasing all of it's functions.
And in the second lecture this
week, Dr. Maulik Shah, one of our
neurohospitalists here at UCSF and a specialist in
brain infections, is going to talk about encephalitis,
meningitis, and other infections of the nervous system.
Now this is all starting to fit into place.
You remember, in the first few weeks, we talked
about the anatomy of the nervous system and then
I talked about stroke, which gave you a nice
way to take structure and function, put them together.
Dr. Lowenstein, week two,
talked about epilepsy, followed then by
the neurodegenerative status by Dr. Josephson.
This week we'll focus, again now, on changes in level of
consciousness, like when is a person in stupor or coma, for example.
What happens when a person progresses to a state
of death because all of their brain functions have disappeared?
Otherwise known as brain death.
And then we'll talk about some of the disorders
that can actually lead to that, for example, infections of
nerves system. Dr. Shah is, will be giving that talk.
He is a specialist in in infections of the nervous system.
He is also a neurohospitalist here at UCSF
and I am sure you will enjoy both lectures.