2009 module exam Flashcards
Patient with loss of vibration and movement of a limb is due to damage to the lateral side of the left medial leminisci in the pons, what nucleus is affected?
Right hand
Which tract is responsible for coordination of eye movement?
MLF
A patient with left corticospinal tract lesion
Positive Babinski sign of the left foot
Which is a fast adapting receptor?
Meissner corpuscle
How do fast adapting receptors perceive the stimulus and generate the potential?
Get stimulus at beginning and end
What increases the sensitivity of the muscle to stretch?
Gamma motor neuron
What is the afferent pathway elicited in a clinically tested knee jerk?
I-a
What is an example of a bilateral reflex?
Withdrawal reflex
What initiates the movement in a muscle?
Multisynapse in the spinal circuit
What is a function of stretch reflex?
Compensates for the unexpected disturbances during maintenance of posture
A patient with muscle atrophy, weakness, flaccid paralysis, diminished reflexes, have a problem in
Anterior horn cells
Damage to last finger and ring weakness
Ulnar nerve injury
A patient with loss of vibration in left leg and loss of motor functions at the same leg with loss of pain and temperature of the right leg
Hemiplegia of the left part of the spinal cord at (T6-T12) (mo mohem mn wain lay wain elmohem elconcept)
Which nerve is related to the red nucleus?
Occulomotor
What is the function of the spinal nucleus of CN V?
Ipsilateral pain and temperature of the face
What is supplied by the trochlear nerve?
Superior oblique
What supplies the pharynx and larynx?
Nucleus ambiguous
What is the main cause of CN III palsy?
PCA aneurysm
Tubocurarine usually blocks (N1) ach receptors, why does it have no effect on the ANS?
Because N1 receptors are not found in ANS
What increases activity of NA receptors?
ATP
Demyelination of posterior and lateral spinal columns is caused by
Vitamin B deficiency
Patient with MS and INO due to lesion in
MLF
Alcoholic patient with MS is probably
Central pontine myelinolysis
What is the best way to diagnose MS?
IgG index
A patient with headaches, vision problems, and claudications, what is the best way to diagnose him?
ESR
Type of immune-mediated activity against MG?
Complement
Patient with loss of vision for 3 hours, then returned and after check up tests are normal
TIA
Which part of the internal capsule contains corticospinal tract?
Posterior limb
Which thalamic nuclei connect to cingulate gyrus?
Anterior thalamic nuclei
Which nucleus connect to ML and SL ?
VPL
Which cerebral cortex layers are well developed in motor cortex?
III and V
Which artery is seen in the circle of willis?
Anterior cerebral artery
A patient with shock due to MI
Watershed infarction
Which fibers affect the alertness of a person?
Reticular formation afferents
The main effector on cerebral blood flow
Partial pressure of CO2
Patient with hypotension and cerebral blood flow from 50 became 25. What is a way to increase?
Increase in systemic BP
Patient with hypotension and cerebral blood flow from 50 became 25 for half an hour, and then restored. What happened to the neurons at that time?
Transient loss of neuronal activity
What is the main way of fuel utilization in ischemia?
Induction of glycolytic pathway
What is the neurotransmitter responsible for neuronal death and apoptosis after ischemia?
L-glutamate
What is the mechanism of death of neurons in ischemia?
Opening of Ca++ channels and precipitation of metabolites
What is the radiopharmaceutical used to diagnose cerebral metabolism?
F-18 deoxy glucose
Nuclear imaging from Tc-99m HMPAO showed no blood flow in a patient with stroke and hemiplegia. Which area is affected?
Fronto-parietal lobe
What is the function of prefrontal cortex?
Creation of working memory
Stroke is the … leading cause of death in Kuwait?
4th
Why is the prevalence of stroke low in Kuwait?
Young population