CNRN Flashcards
Lhermitte’s sign
May be present in MS. It’s described a electric shock sensation
Lhermitte’s sign
May be present in MS. It’s described a electric shock sensation
Draining cerebrospinal fluid with lumbar drain trials
Normal
Pressure
Hydrocephalus
Caused by hypercoagulable state
Stroke caused by central venous thrombosis
Which presents with visual changes, h/a and depression ?
Pseudomotor cerebri
Demyelinatimg disorder of the CNS
MS
Measures 2.5 cm in diameter
Giant aneurysm
Measures 2.5 cm in diameter
Giant aneurysm
Out pouching of the vessel wall
Fusiform aneurysm
How many pairs of cervical nerve roots are found in the cervical region?
8
Wet-incontinence
Wacky-dementia
Wobbly-gait disturbance
Normal pressure hydrocephalus
Small cells. Stellate cells with numerous long processes, found
primarily in the gray matter of the brain and spinal
cord
Microglia
Support the neurons functions through secretion of metabolic neurotrophic factor , insulin like growth factor
Oligodendrocytes
Glial cells with extremely long processes that wrap round neuronal axons . A single one can myelinate multiple axons
Oligodendrocytes
Much more common. Occur in gray matter along cells bodies.
Help make up pia matter
Protoplasmatic
Astrocytes
Type of glial cell. Star like bodies numerous processes that extend to multiple structures of the CNS
Astrocytes
Transmit signal via action potential forms within the nervous system to lower neuron , muscles and glands
Motor neurons
Receive signal from the outside world and transmit it to specific areas of the brain
Sensory neurons
Gold standard for determining brain death
Cerebral blood flow
Primitive behavior (sex, rage, fear, biological rhythms)
Emotional control
Filters external stimuli
Lymbic system
Can be fixed by coiling
Sack like
Most common type
Berry aneurysm
Sacular aneurysm
Patient with h/a. Loses consciousness after intubation
Emergency head CT
Patient presents with acute onset of cortical blindness
Occlusion of bil posterior cerebral arteries
Ich of 4
Associated with 97 percent mortality at 30’days following an intracerebral hemorrhage