FUCK NEURO Flashcards
Disinhibition and deficits in concentration, orientation, judgment; may have reemergence of primitive reflexes.
Frontal Lobe lesion
Destructive lesion such as an MCA stroke: eyes look towards the side of the lesion (or at the hemiplegia). Irritative lesion such as seizures: eyes look at the shaking arm and leg.
Frontal eye field lesion
Eyes look toward side of hemiplegia
Lesion of the Paramedian Pontine Reticular formation
inability to look toward the side of lesion
ipsilateral gaze palsy
impaired adduction of ipsilateral eye; nystagmus of contralateral eye with abduction
internuclear opthalmoplegia
Lesion of ___ causes internuclear opthalmoplegia
Medial Longitudinal fasciculus
Agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia, left-right disorientation
Lesion of Dominant parietal cortex
aka Gertmann syndrome
Agnosia of the contralateral side of the world
Lesion of Nondominant parietal cortex
aka Hemispatial Neglect Syndrome
Anterograde amnesia – inability to make new memories
Hippocampus (bilateral lesions)
May result in tremor at rest, chorea, athetosis
Lesion of Basal Ganglia (Parkinson disease, Huntington disease)
contralateral hemiballismus
lesion of subthalamic nucleus
Confusion, ataxia, Nystagmus, Opthalmoplegia, memory loss (anterograde and retrograde amnesia), confabulation, personality changes
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is caused by a lesion of the ______
bilateral Mammillary bodie
disinhibited behavior (eg, hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality)
Kluver-Bucy syndrome
Kluver-Bucy syndrome is caused by a lesion of the ____
bilateral amygdalas
vertical gaze palsy, pupillary light-near dissociation, lid retraction, convergence-retraction nystagmus
Parinaud syndrome
Parinaud syndrome is caused by a lesion of the ______
dorsal midbrain
Reduced levels of arousal and wakefulness (eg, coma) is caused by a lesion of the ____ in the ____
Reticular activating system
midbrain
lesion causes Intention tremor, limb ataxia, loss of balance
cerebellar hemisphere lesion (ipsilateral deficits; fall towards side of lesion)
____ posturing is caused by a lesion ABOVE the red nucleus (of the midbrain)
Decorticate (flexor)
- flexion of upper extremities, extension of lower extremities
____ posturing is caused by a lesion AT OR BELOW the red nucleus (of the midbrain)
Decerebrate (extensor)
- extension of upper and lower extremities
Which type of posturing has a worse prognosis?
Decerebrate posturing
Lesion of the ___ causes truncal ataxia (wide-based, “drunken sailor” gait), nystagmus
cerebellar vermis
- associated with chronic alcohol abuse
Presents in a premature/low-birth-weight infant as altered level of consciousness, bulging fontanelle, hypotension, seizures, coma. Bleeding into ventricles.
Neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage
Neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage originates in the germinal matrix and is due to _______ and _______ in premature infants.
reduced glial fiber support
impaired autoregulation of BP
Hypertensive hemorrhages (Charcot-Bouchard microaneurysms) most often occur in ______, followed by thalamus, pons, and cerebellum.
putamen of basal ganglia (lenticulostriate vessels)
A stroke of the ____ artery causes contralateral paralysis. Absence of cortical signs (eg neglect, aphasia, visual field loss)
lenticulostriate