clinical findings

Question 1

muscle changes in parkinsons

Answer 1

rigidity in flexors and extensors

Question 2

power in parkinsons

Answer 2

preserved

Question 3

stooped and diminished arm swing

Answer 3

pakinsons

Question 4

gait changes in lateral lobe cerebelar lesions

Answer 4

broad-based gait

Question 5

lateral lobe cerebellar disease, person will veer ____ direction of affected lobe

Answer 5

to the side of affected lobe

Question 6

midline structure of cerebellar is called

Answer 6

cerebellar vermis

Question 7

where is ataxia in midline cerebellar disease

Answer 7

trunk only, not limbs

Question 8

sign of midline cerebellar disease

Answer 8

truncal ataxia - fall backwards or to side

Question 9

what causes a stamping gait

Answer 9

polyneuropathy - due to loss of proprioception

Question 10

slapping gait due to

Answer 10

distal weakness: dorsiflexion weakness - peroneal nerve palsy

Question 11

weakness where is waddling

Answer 11

proximal lower limb

Question 12

conditions where waddling is common

Answer 12

muscular dystrophy, polymyositis

Question 13

can do walking movements if walking or sitting but unable to walk is called ____

Answer 13

gait apraxia

Question 14

what causes gait apraxia

Answer 14

frontal lobe disorders: tumour, hydrocephalus, infarct

Question 15

lesion site in aphasia

Answer 15

left frontal lobe

Question 16

site of lesion: incontinence

Answer 16

frontal (either side)

Question 17

expressive aphasia, what area

Answer 17

brocas

Question 18

expressive aphasia, where in brain

Answer 18

front left

Question 19

loss of ability to speak is called

Answer 19

expressive aphasia

Question 20

receptive aphasia, what area

Answer 20

wernicke’s

Question 21

receptive aphasia, where ingrain

Answer 21

left, tempero parietal

Question 22

loss of ability to understand language is called

Answer 22

receptive aphasia

Question 23

loss of the ability to write

Answer 23

agraphia

Question 24

area of brain in agraphia

Answer 24

left temporo-parietal