Infections of CNS and PNS

Question 1

Lesions in the frontal lobe cause difficulties with?

Answer 1

executive functioning, planning, frontal lobe syndrome, personality changes, irritability, euphoria, apathy, depression, impulsive, social inappropriateness

Question 2

What is frontal lobe syndrome (Dysexecutive syndrome)

Answer 2

personality changes, irritability, euphoria, apathy, depression, impulsive, social inappropriateness

Question 3

Lesions in the Temporal lobes cause difficulties with?

Answer 3

memory, ability to learn (left side verbal, right side visual), emotionality, retrograde memory, some hallucinations, difficulties with words (think viral infections)

Question 4

Lesions in the Parietal lobes cause difficulties with?

Answer 4

Language, aphasia, tactile agnosia, apraxia, intellectual deterioration

Question 5

Lesions in the Occipital lobes cause difficulties with?

Answer 5

visual allusions, distortions, hallucinations

Question 6

Lesions in the limbic system cause

Answer 6

primitive emotionality (fear, rage, irritabiliity)

Question 7

What is the most common bacterial etiology of meningitis?

Answer 7

Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Question 8

What are the common viral pathogens related to CNS infections

Answer 8

HIV, Herpes, Flaviviris, cytomegalovirus,