Flashcards - Neuro
Cocaine/Hydroxyamphetamine
Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor/Norepinephrine release (can test if 3rd order Horners)
cerebral hemispheres embryo origins
–> telecephalon –> prosencephalon
thalamus
–> diencephalon –> prosencephalon
midbrain
–> mesencephalon
pons/cerebellum
–> metencephalon –> rhombencephalon
medulla
–> myelencephalon –> rhombencephalon
Serotonin amino acids
–> 5-hydroxytryptamine –> tryptophan
tetrahydrobiopterin
tyrosine, dopa, serotonin, NO
Norepinephrine nucleus
locus cereleus
Dopamine nucleus
ventral tegmentum and substantia nigra pars compacta
5-HT nucleus
raphe nuclei
Ach nucleus
basal nucleus of Meynert (affected in AD)
GABA nucleus
nucleus accumbens
Loss of GABA neurons
Huntingtons disease (Ch 4) - Neuron death from NMDA-R binding and glutamate toxicity - ex-vacuo dilation of frontal horns
NMDA receptor agonist
glutamate + glycine co-factor
mu opiod receptor
G-proteins –> activates potassium channels to increase K efflux –> hyperpolarization
mesolimbic-mesocortical
behavior
nigrostriatal
voluntary movements (parkinsons)
tuberoinfundibular
prolactin secretion
superoxide dismutase 1
Lou Gehrigs - ALS - UMN+LMN deficits - use rilouzole (glutamate antagonist)
multinucleated giant cells in CNS
HIV infected microglia
free nerve fibers
pain/temperature - on skin
meissner corpuscles
fine/light touch, position - on hairless skin
pacinian corpuscles
vibration/pressure - deep skin layers, ligaments/joints
merkel disks
deep static touch, pressure - fingertips
ruffini corpuscles
pressure, slippage, joint angle change - fingertips
Lateral area of hypothalamus
hunger (inhibited by leptin)
Ventromedial area of hypothalamus
satiety (stimulated by leptin)
anterior hypothalamus
cooling, parasympathetic
posterior hypothalamus
heating, sympathetic
suprachiasmatic nucleus of hypothalamus
circadian rhythm –> norepi –> pineal gland –> melatonin
VPL of thalamus
spinothalamic/DCML - pain, temperature, touch, vibration proprioception
VPM of thalamus
trigeminal/gustatory - face sensation, taste
LGN of thalamus
CN II - vision
MGN of thalamus
superior olive/inferior colliculus - hearing
VL of thalamus
basal ganglia/cerebellum - motor
Sleep Stage N2
medium sleep - bruxism
Sleep Stage N3
deepest sleep - sleepwalking, night terrors, bedwetting
REM sleep
loss of motor tone - dreaming
BG indirect pathway
inhibitory - Cortex/SNc -(+)-> Putamen -(-)-> GPi -(-)-> Thalamus -(+)-> Motor Cortex
BG direct pathway
excitatory - Cortex/SNc -(+)-> Putamen -(-)-> GPe -(-)-> STN -(+)-> GPi -(-)->Thalamus -(+)-> Motor Cortex
Wilson’s disease brain damage
putamen degeneration
alpha-synuclein
Lewy bodies - Parkinson’s
silver staining spherical tau protein aggregates
Pick bodies - Pick disease/FTD
hemiballism
subthalamic nucleus lesion - lacunar strokes
subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
years after measles virus - oligoclonal bands of measles antibodies in CSF
Charcot-Bouchard
pseudoaneurysm from dilation of arteriole walls due to hypertension - lenticulostriate vessels
Wallenberg syndrome
Lateral medullary syndrome - PICA - nucleus ambiguus - hoarseness, dysphagia, slurred speech
stroke timeline
12-48h: red neurons, 24-72h: necrosis + neutrophils, 3-5d: macrophages(migroglia), 1-2w: reactive gliosis, >2w: glial scar
S100+ cell origins
neural crest
GFAP+
gliomas (astrocytes, oligodendryocytes, ependymal, schwann)
necrotic, pseudopalisading, GFAP+
glioblastoma multiforme - astrocytes - butterfly lesion
spindle cells, whorl pattern, psammoma bodies
meningioma - arachnoid - associated with estrogen
schwannoma
CN VIII @ cerebellarpontine angle common - S100+