Your Friend Has a Paralyzed Arm

question 12

Multiple Choice

Your friend has a paralyzed arm. What physical events might have caused this?

• A)Any of these events could have caused the paralysis: damage to the part of the brain that controls that arm, damage to the part of the spinal cord that controls that arm, or drug- induced failure at the neuromuscular junction.
• B)damage to the part of the brain that controls that arm
• C)damage to the part of the spinal cord that controls that arm
• D)drug- induced failure at the neuromuscular junction

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