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All sorts of neurology questions and buzz words from Neuro block

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Loss of consciousness, longer duration of 1 to 2 minutes and the presence of automatisms usually signifies what type of seizure?   Complex Partial Seizure  
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What is the most common form of epilepsy in children?   Partial Seizures  
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What type of seizure begins in both hemispheres?   Generalized Seizures  
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Petit Mal, brief lapses of consciousness, disruption in speech or motor is what type of seizure?   Absence Seizure  
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What type of seizure shows a long myotonic period where the child usually ends up falling or dropping due to loss of muscle tone?   Atonic Seizures  
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MOst common convulsive disorder of childhood.   Febrile Seizures  
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Grand Mal   Tonic-clonic Seizure  
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Fifth Day Fits   Benign Idiopathic Neonatal Seizures  
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Mental Retardation with mixed seizure disorder, most common in patients with infantile spasms.   Lennow-Gastaut Syndrome  
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Juvenile Myoclonic Seizure Triad   Generalized, Myotonic, Absence  
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First line treatment for Juvenile Myoclonic Seizures?   Valproic Acid  
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Fixed, midsize pupils of 4 - 5 mmm signifies a problem where in the brain?   Midbrain  
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Pinpoint pupils signifies a problem where in the brain?   Pontine/ Pons  
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Unilateral, fixed and dilated pupil signifies a problem where?   Is most likely compression of CN III.  
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Cheyne-Stokes Respiration Pattern (crescendo -> decrescendo)   Hemisphere dysfunction  
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Central Neurogenic Hyperventilation (sustained deep breaths)   midbrain to upper pons  
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Kussmaul (deep slow breaths)   diabetic ketoacidosis  
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Apnea is a sign of what kind of problem?   medulla  
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How to respond to an unconscious patient…   STONED: Sugar, Thiamine, O2, Narcan, Evaluate, Differential Dx  
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Asymmetry in a coma patient, think…   structural  
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Likely cause of intracerebral hemorrhage   hypertension  
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Caused by occlusion of smaller, penetrating arteries, presence of fibrinoid   Lacunar Infarctions  
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Most common cause of cardioembolic stroke   atrial fibrillation  
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Beading of vessels within the brain is characteristic of what condition?   CNS Vasculitis  
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A core of forever-lost brain cells surrounded by damaged brain cells that could still be repaired   Penumbra  
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A resting tremor is associated with what condition?   Parkinson’s Disease  
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An intention tremor is assoc. with a problem where?   cerebellum  
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Drugs that help relieve the tremor of Parkinson’s Disease   Anticholinergic  
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Main side-effect of anticholinergics that could make them countraindicated in the elderly population   memory loss  
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3 anticholinergic drugs used for Parkinson’s   Trihexiphenidyl, Benztropine mesylate, Diphenhydramine  
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What 2 NT can increase GABA to Globus Pallidus?   Ach and Glutamate  
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DOPA is converted to Dopamine via…   DOPA-decarboxylase  
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2 components that can prolong DOPA in the synapse   Mono-oxidase B (MAO-B) inhibitors & Cartechol-ortho methyl transferase (COMT) inhibitors  
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MAO-B inhibitors for Parkinson’s   Selegeline and Rasagaline  
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COMT inhibitors for Parkinson’s   Entacapone and Tolcapone  
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NMDA receptor for what?   glutamate  
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What Parkison’s drug has a slight effect on NMDA receptors?   Amantadine ( weak NMDA antagonist)  
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An acquired persistent, confusional state   dementia  
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The clinical traid of confusion, gait disturbance and extra-ocular dysmotility point to which disease?   Wernicke’s Encephalopathy (usually assoc. with alcohol & thiamine deficiency)  
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Infarcts or hemorrhages within mamillary bodies of hypothalamus   Wernicke’s Encephalopathy  
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Extra-ocular dysfunction in Wernicke’s   Ophthalmoplegia  
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Water is white on this imaging and it is best for showing pathology   T2 Weighted MRI  
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Lacunar infarctions are due to what size vessels?   small vessels  
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Decreased glucose metabolism esp. in the posterior cerebrum on PET scan   Alzheimer’s Disease  
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On microscopic analysis, a patient is found to have neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques. What is the most likely cause of these findings?   Alzheimer’s Disease  
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What material are senile plaques made of?   Amyloid (Amyloid Beta proteins or fragments of APP)  
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Anticholinesterase Inhibitors for Alzheimer’s Disease, they are …   Donepezil, Galantamine, Rivastigmine  
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NMDA receptors control what substance?   Calcium entry  
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Pick’s Bodies   Pick’s Disease  
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There is atrophy of what two lobes with Pick’s Diease?   Frontal and Temporal  
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A dementia with visual hallucinations   Dementia with Lewy Bodies  
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Lewy Bodies in cerebral cortex   Dementia with Lewy Bodies  
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Intention tremors are assoc. with which dementia?   Dementia with Lewy Bodies  
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A resting tremor is assoc. with which dementia?   Parkinson’s Disease  
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A CAG repeat on Chromosome 4, autosomal dominant   Huntington’s Disease  
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A fatal dementia involving rigidity, clumsiness and myclonic jerks   Creutz-feldt Jakob Disease (prion disease)  
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Positive 14-3-3 analysis of CSF   CJD (Creutz-feldt Jakob Disease)  
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Spongiform encephalopathy involving microscopic vacuoles   CJD  
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The clinical triad of gait disturbance (magnetic), urinary incontinence and cognitive disturbance are characteristic of what disease?   Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus  
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Treatment of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus   shunt  
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Speaking a heard word pathway   Primary auditory area -> Wernicke’s Area -> Arcuate Fasciculus -> Broca’s Area -> Primary Motor Cortex  
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Speaking a written word pathway   Primary Visual Area -> Angular Gyrus -> Wernicke’s Area -> Broca’s Area -> Primary Motor Cortex  
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Left Hemisphere tasks   language and calculation  
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Right Hemisphere tasks   drawing  
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Huntington’s Chorea is a clinical triad of …   dominant inheritance, choreoathetosis, and dementia (usually results in death in 10 -> 20 years)  
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What structure is responsible for the coordination of movements during the action?   cerebellum  
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What structure/s are responsible for planning movements?   Basal Ganglia  
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A key sign of a cerebellar dysfunction   Dystonia (uncontrollable muscle contractions)  
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Cells in the ventral horn at the edge of gray matter that monitor UMN and LMN interaction   border cells  
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What is the function of the vermis?   To fine tune motor control of axial musculature  
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What is the function of the paravermis (intermediate hemisphere)?   lower extremity fine motor control  
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Portion of the cerebellum that control complex movement and is a part of the cerebrocerebellum tract   lateral hemisphere  
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Tract found in the floccularnodual lobe   vestibulocerebellum tract  
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The main afferent (input) pathway to the dentate nucleus to begin the trisynaptic circuit   Perforant Pathway  
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The main efferent (output) pathway (CA1 & subiculum -> mamillary bodies -> ANT -> subcallosal cortex -> assoc. area of neocortex   Fornix  
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Can’t make new memories   Anterograde Amnesia  
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Can’t recall past memories   Retrograde Amnesia  
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Removal of this organ results in an inability to transfer memory from short term to long term   Hippocampus  
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What type of memories is the hippocampus responsible for?   Explicit Memories  
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An event that after a presynaptic neuron is overactive, when the presynaptic neuron goes back to normal firing, the post synaptic neuron continues to fire at an increased rate   Lone Term Potentiation  
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LTP (Long Term Potentiation) is linked with what function?   Spatial Learning  
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This structure is responsible for emotional learning, fear, reward and implicit facial recognition   Amygdala  
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What part of the brain is responsible for fear triggered sympathetic discharge?   Lateral Hypothalamus  
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Amygdala to Parabrachial Nucleus   increased respiration  
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Amygdala to Cingulate gyrus and locus coreuleus   increased HR, NE, BP and fear  
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Amygdala to Periaquaductal Grey   defensive behavior  
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Hypoemotionality, loss of fear, psychic blindness, hypersexuality and hyperorality are symptoms of what?   Kluver-Bucy Syndrome (Bilateral temporolimbic lesions)  
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A direct receptor in the post-synaptic cell membrane is the…   Ionotropic Receptor  
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An indirect receptor in the post-synaptic cell membrane is the…   Metabotropic Receptor  
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What are the main 2 determinants of the degree of differential blockade of local anesthetics?   pKa and lipid solubility  
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A low pKa with local anesthetics shifts equilibrium to the ionized form and leads to….   a slower/ delayed onset of action  
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Muscle spindle is sensitive to changes in?   length  
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Golgi Tendon Organ is sensitive ti changes in?   tension  
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