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Behavioral Neurology Flashcards

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Aphemia

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Apraxia of speech characterized by complete articulatory failure in the presence of preserved writing, comprehension and oropharyngeal function.
Lesion in the left inferior frontal gyrus (Broca’s area)

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Broca’s aphasia

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Expressive aphasia. Nonfluent speech; can’t name or repeat. Written language also affected. Comprehension intact. Due to a lesion in the posterior part of the dominant inferior frontal gyrus

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

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Receptive aphasia. Comprehension impaired. Speech is fluent but nonsensical. Lesion in posterior portion of dominant superior temporal gyrus.

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Conduction aphasia

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Impaired repetition. Speech is fluent but not perfect and patients can comprehend spoken word. Naming an writing are affected. Lesion in the arcuate fasciculus (fibers connecting Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas).

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Global aphasia

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Expressive and receptive aphasia due to a lesion in the dominant perisylvian area, involving Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas. Patients have nonfluent speech, poor comprehension, poor repetition and naming.

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Transcortical motor aphasia

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Expressive aphasia but can repeat (unlike Broca’s aphasia). Due to a lesion in the dominant supplementary motor areas, the connections between the SMA and Broca’s area or above or anterior to Broca’s area. May be due to stroke involving watershed territory between ACA and MCA.

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Transcortical sensory aphasia

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Receptive aphasia but can repeat. Lesion at the junction of the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes.

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Transcortical Mixed Aphasia

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Nonfluent speech and poor comprehension with repetition

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Alexia without agraphia

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aka pure word blindness. Lesion of the medial region of the dominant occipital lobe or medial and inferior occipitotemporal regions and splenium of the corpus callosum. Can also occur with lesion of periventricular white matter around the occipital horn of the lateral ventricle in the dominant hemisphere

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Alexia with agraphia

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Lesion of the dominant angular gyrus

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Balint’s Syndrome

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Oculomotor apraxia, optic ataxia, simultagnosia and issues with depth perception.
Due to bilateral parietal-occipital damage

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Auditory Verbal agnosia/pure word deafness

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Can hear sounds but can’t understand words or repeat. Can read and write.
Localization: deep dominant superior temporal lesion or bilateral lesions in the midportion of the superior temporal gyrus.

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Alien Limb Syndrome

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Patient may not recognize their own limb or may feel can’t control it. May have involuntary movement of limb.
Due to lesion of corpus callosum, ACA infarct, basal ganglionic degeneration.

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Anton’s Syndrome

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Cortical blindness that patient is not aware that they have.
Lesion in bilateral occipital lobes.

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Capgras Syndrome

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Patients have delusion that people around them have been replaced by imposters.

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Charles Bonnet Syndrome

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Patients with vision loss see things in the space where vision was lost. Complex visual hallucinations, usually colored patterns, images of people, animals , plants or inanimate objects. Patients are typically elderly with normal cognition and know they are having hallucination.

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Ganser Syndrome

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Patients give approximate but wrong answers.

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Gerstmann’s Syndrome

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Finger agnosia, agraphia, acalculia, right-left confusion..
Due to a lesion of the angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere. Brodmans’ area 39 (parietal lobe)
Common cause is infarction of the inferior division of the MCA

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Kluver-Bucy Syndrome

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Patients hyperoral, hypersexual and placid.

Lesion in bilateral anterioral temporal lobe.

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Wernicke Encephalopathy

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Confusion, ataxia, nystagmus.

Due to thiamine deficiency. Alcoholics with thiamine deficiency and get glucose before thiamine may have this triggered.

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Anosodiaphoria

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lack of concern about one’s impairment, specifically used in association with indifference to paralysis.

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Anosognosia

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denial/lack of awareness of one’s impairment; often seen with right parietal lesions.

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Susac’s Syndrome

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Microangiopathy involving the brain, retina, and cochlea that usually present in young women.
Susac’s syndrome is associated with a triad:
1. BRAO
2. Encephalopathy
3. Sensorineural hearing loss

Brain MRI may resemble MS. There are multiple areas of high T2 involving white and gray matter. Corpus callosum often involved

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Whipple’s Disease

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Due to gram positive bacillus (Tropheryma whippelii).
Dx Triad: dementia, supranuclear gaze palsy, myoclonus
Pathognomonic: oculomasticatory and skeletal myorhythmias
May also have convergence-divergence nystagmus

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akinetic mutism

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seen with medial frontal lesions, specifically of the anterior cingulate gyrus

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asomatognosia

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a category of neglect in which a patient denies ownership of a limb contralateral
to a lesion of the supramarginal gyrus of the parietal lobe (usually nondominant)

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Alzheimer Genetics

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Presenilin 1-chr 14 (aggressive AD)
Presenilin 2-chr 1
Apolipoprotein E4 on chr 19: modifies risk–3x higher
Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP)–chro 21

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Types of Memory–Duration

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Immediate–amount of info. someone can keep in conscious awareness w/o active memorization. Test with Forward Digit Span.

Working–test by manipulation of info retained in immediate memory

Recent–ability to register and recall specific items after a delay of minutes to hours–usually impaired first in AD and tested by three-word recall

Remote–historical life events and long-known info.

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Types of Memory–Content

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Declarative–facts and events, aka explicit

  • -Episodic-specific events and contexts (most impaired early in AD)
  • -Semantic–facts such as vocabulary and concepts

Nondeclarative— aka implicit; memory of skills and other acquired behaviors
Procedural

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FDG-PET in Dementias

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AD-bilateral parietotemporal hypometabolism
FTD-fontal and anterior temporal
Huntingtons-head of caudate
Diffuse Lewy Body–occipital
PD-no hypometabolism
PSP–global metabolic reduction in regions including the anterior cingulate, basal ganglia (esp. caudate and putamen), thalamus and upper brainstem

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Orbitofrontal lesions

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OCD traits, disinhibition, emotional lability, hypersexuality, anxiety, depression, impulsiveness, antisocial behavior

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Familial Frontotemporal dementia genetics

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17q21

chromosomes 3 and 9 also

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3 variants of FTD

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Behavioral Variant (most common): personality change, abulia, apathy, social withdrawal, social disinhibition, impulsivity, lack of insight, poor personal hygiene, stereotyped or ritual behaviors, hyperphagia, suddenly new artistic abilities or hobbies, emotional blunting, loss of empathy, mental rigidity, distractibility, impersistence, perseverative behavior and impaired organizational skills

Progressive nonfluent aphasia: characterized in early stages by anomia, word-finding difficulty, impaired object naming, effortful speech with preserved comprehension.
Behavior and social interaction remain unaffected until late in the disease at which point the patient becomes globally aphasic.

Semantic dementia/progressive fluent aphasia: progressive speech disturbance with normal fluency but impaired comprehension, anomia, and semantic paraphasias. May clinically resemble a transcortical sensory aphasia

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Lesion Dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus

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Abulia, anterograde amnesia, social disinhibition and motivation loss.

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Lesion of anterior nucleus of the thalamus

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dysfunction of limbic relay and memory formation

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Lesions causing akinetic mutism

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Patient generally has preserved awareness with open eyes but remains immobile, mute and does not respond to commands

  • bilateral globus pallidus interna
  • bilateral ACA infarcts to the frontal lobes
  • lesions to the medial frontal lobes
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silver-staining, spherical aggregations of tau proteins in neurons

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Pick bodies of Pick’s disease

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globose neurofibrillary tangles in subcortical nuclei and tufted astrocytes

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PSP

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Memantine

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low-to-moderate affinity noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist that inhibits glutamate stimulation and thus theoretically limits overactivation and toxicity to remaining cholinergic neurons.

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Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors used in tx of AD

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Donepezil: pure acetylcholinesterase inhibitor

Rivastigmine: combined acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase antagonist–>both result in limiting break down of acetylcholine.

Galantamine: combined acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and allosteric nicotinic modulator

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Pathology of Alzhemier’s disease

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Amyloid plaques
intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles
granulovacuolar degeneration: neuronal intracytoplasmic granule containing vacuoles
amyloid angiopathy: amyloid deposition in walls of small and medium sized arteries
Hirano bodies: cytoplasmic inclusions composed mainly of actin and actin-associated proteins

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familial CJD

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AD inheritance

prion protein gene (PRNP) coding for PrP located on chromosome 20p.

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Prosopagnosia

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inability to recognize faces

localize to bilateral lesion of the temporo-occipital regions (bilateral fusiform gyri}–bilateral PCA infarct or AD

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Foix-Chavany-Marie Syndrome aka anterior opercular syndrome

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severe dysarthria, bilateral voluntary paralysis of lower CN’s with preserved involuntary and emotional innervation.
Assoc. w/ bilateral anterior opercular syndrome

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Ideational apraxia

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impairment in the sequence of motions needed to carry out a specific movement (told to pour water into cup and drink but “drinks” before pouring water)
seen in patients with bifrontal or biparietal dysfunction, as occurs in neurodegenerative disorders

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ideomotor apraxia

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use of a body part as an object during pantomime, as well as unusual movements and postures
lesion in dominant parietal cortex, in or around the area of the superior marginal and angular gyrus.

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conduction apraxia

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impairment in imitation of movement

localization not well-defined

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conceptual apraxia

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misconception of the function of objects in the environment–using fork to eat soup

seen in diffuse neurodegenerative processes, lesions in nondominant hemisphere

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disassociation apraxia

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inability to execute a movement on command but normal ability to imitate
occurs in L hand in L hemisphere language dominant patients with L MCA infarct

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dressing apraxia

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localizes to right parietal lobe; often occurs with neglect syndrome

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lesions to dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex

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personality changes, lack of ability to plan or to sequence actions or tasks
DLPFC also involved in verbal and design fluency, organizational skills, problem-solving, abstract thinking, shifting sets/topics and creative reasoning

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lesions to cingulate cortex

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akinetic mutism, apathy and abulia, anterograde and retrograde amnesia and confabulation

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Tests of Executive function

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Continuous Performance Task
Controlled Oral Word Association
Digit vigilance test
Figural fluency test
Halstead category test
Paced Auditory Serial Addition test
Wisconsin card sorting task--patient arranges cards based on specific concept
Symptol digit modalities test
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Trail making tests

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Part A-simple processing speed and attention

Part B–patient connects consecutive numbers and letters–set shifting and working memory in addition to Part A stuff.

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Ideomotor apraxia

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impaired control of skilled movements–incorrect posture when using tool but know what tool should be used for

using handle of hammer instead of head

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Ideational apraxia

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inability to correctly order a series of movements to perform an action, making multistep actions confusing

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