1.2 Clinical: Approach to Neuro Symptoms

Question 1

Myelopathy

Answer 1

“disease of the spinal cord” i.e, compressive myelopathy (tumor, disc, etc causing weakness, sensory loss, spasticity below the level of compression)

Question 2

Radiculopathy

Answer 2

“disease of the nerve root(s)” i.e., any process affecting a single or multiple nerve roots at cervical, thoracic or lumbar or sacral level

Question 3

mononeuropathy

Answer 3

disease of one nerve

Question 4

multiplex

Answer 4

disease of several individual nerves

Question 5

polyneuropathy

Answer 5

disease of many/diffuse peripheral nerves

Question 6

cranial mononeuropathy

Answer 6

Dysfunction of a single cranial nerve

Question 7

Myopathy

Answer 7

“primary disease of muscle”, inclusion body, inflammatory, etc.

Question 8

Delirium

Answer 8

• generally a temporary disorder of mental faculties

- restlessness, delusions, agitation or withdrawal.

Question 9

Cognition

Answer 9

a group of mental processes - includes attention, memory, learning, reasoning, problem solving, decision making (processing, applying knowledge and adjusting)

Question 10

Thalamic lesions

Answer 10

can cause sensory dysfunction (thalamic pain after thalamic stroke, or paresthesias or numbness over contralateral body

Question 11

Cortical lesions

Answer 11

involving the sensory cortex can cause paresthesias or hypesthesia in corresponding contralateral body areas corresponding to cortical territory involved.