Kaplan Flashcards
How do you diagnose Guilliam Barre?
CSF sample with 2x proteins
A brain dead person will not have what reflex? and Why?
Pupil unresponsive to light : Brain stem reflex
Inability to repeat words, severe audio and language disturbance with normal IQ is?
Wernicke (receptive) aphasia
Language output, repetition is poor, slowed, and they use mostly know nouns and verbs is due to a lesion where?
Broca aphasia
Restless leg syndrome are tx with?
Benzos
MC cause of meningitis in a college, baracks, or jail is due to what bacteria?
Meningococcus
pt with an head abrasion but no other sxs can be treated
with 24 neurological watch
Down syndrome is associated with what movement disorder?
Alzheimer dementia
MS is only demyelination of the periventricular area?
Yes
HIV demyelination is due to?
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
hallucinations, dementia, and extrapyramidal sxs is what kind of dementia?
Lewy body
After benzons for a seizure, what do you give next?
phenytoin
What nerve controls tongue movement?
hypoglossal (12)
what nerve innvervates scrotum and medial thign?
ilioinguinal
what nerve allows the cremaster to work?
genitofemoral