General Neuro Cases and Revision Flashcards

1
Q

Describe reflexes in an upper motor neuron problem.

A

Brisk/exaggerated reflex

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Describe reflexes in an lower motor neuron problem.

A

Reduced or absent

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3
Q

What else would be seen in someone with a LMN lesion?

A

Muscle atrophy
Decreased tone

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4
Q

How many cranial nerves arise from the brainstem?

A

10

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5
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How many cranial nerves arise from the midbrain? Which ones?

A

2
Oculomotor and trochlear

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6
Q

How many cranial nerves arise from the pons? Which ones?

A

4
Trigeminal, abducens, facial, vestibulocochlear

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7
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How many cranial nerves arise from the medulla? Which ones?

A

4
Glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, hypoglossal

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8
Q

Which type of imaging tells us exactly in the brain/spinal cord a lesion is?

A

MRI

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9
Q

What is a typical onset of radial nerve pasly?

A

Someone who has fell asleep drunk with their arm over the back of a chair or something.
This puts pressure on the radial nerve causing the palsy

->reason being drunk or not fully conscious is relevant as would not feel pins and needles

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10
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Where would the lesion be in a sixth nerve pasly?

A

Pons

-> abducent nerve arises from pons

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11
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Where would the lesion be if a patient only has left face, arm and leg weakness?

A

Right internal capsule

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12
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Where would the lesion be if the patient has bilateral hand weakness, spastic gait, bladder dysfunction and UMN signs?

A

Cervical cord

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13
Q

If the damage is in the spinal cord, will there be UMN signs or LMN signs?

A

LMN signs

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14
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If the damage is in the brain, will there be UMN signs or LMN signs?

A

UMN signs

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Where would the lesion in fatigable, bilateral, UL weakness with ptosis and diplopia?

A

NMJ

->would be myasthenia gravis, fatigable key part of history

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16
Q

In which type of condition may there be a distracted tremor?

A

Functional neurological disorder

17
Q

What is meant by a distracted tremor?

A

A tremor which increases with attention and decreases or disappears when distracted

18
Q

Which sign is indicative of functional neurological problems?

A

Hoover’s Sign

19
Q

Stiffness usually suggests spasticity. Is spasticity an UMN or LMN sign?

20
Q

If the bladder is impacted, it it more likely to be an UMN issue or LMN issue?

21
Q

If there is a positive Babinski sign (big toe bends up rather than down when lightly running blunt end of neurotip from heel upwards), is this suggestive of an UMN or LMN isuue?

22
Q

Are peripheral nerve problems due to UMN or LMN?

23
Q

Polyneuropathy?

A

General degeneration of peripheral nerves

24
Q

What usually causes cauda equina syndrome?

A

Herniated disc in lumbar spine

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If there are UMN signs in all four limbs, what is probably affected?
Spinal cord
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What can cause polyneuropathy?
Alcohol Diabetes
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If there was a tumour of the spinal cord, more specifically the cauda equina, which type of symptoms would you expect to see?
Bladder or bowel symptoms
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What is seen in muscle in those with motor neurone disease?
Muscle wasting/atrophy
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Motor neurone disease is a progressive disease which causes what?
Progressive weakness
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Which nerves are affected first in polyneupathy?
Longest nerves so nerves to the feet
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What is the maximum score on GCS?
15
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What is the minimum score on GCS and what does it suggest?
3- they are in complete coma
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