Lecture Quiz 2 Flashcards
What are the two major classes of herniation?
Supratentorial herniation
Infratentorial herniation
Supratentorial Herniation
Structure normally above the tentorial notch
- Uncal (transtentorial)
- Central
- Cingulate (subfalcine)
- Transcalvarial
Infratentorial herniation
Structure normally below the tentorial notch
- Upward cerebellar or transtentorial
- Tonsillar (downward cerebellar)
Glasgow Coma Scale
Test measures the motor response, verbal response, and eye opening responses
- Assign number for each bucket
- lower number=less function
- high number=more function
Final score:
- Mild=13-15
- Moderate Disability- (9-12)
- Severe Disability-(3-8)
- Vegetative State= Less than 3
Coma
unconscious state
- no meaningful response
- no voluntary activités
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) Deficiency:
- where is the vitamin found?
- Causes?
- Symptoms?
- Signs?
Vitamin is found in meats
Causes: Perniscious Anemia (major); strick vegetarian diet, inability to reabsorb vitamin, autoimmune diseases
Symptoms:
Lack of coordination, pain, numbness, tingling, sensory loss, weakness, loss of deep tendon reflexes, Myelin Damage, Paresthesia,
Signs: Lhemerrite’s Sign
- AKA barber chair phenomenon
- classic finding in MS
- electrrical sensation that runs down the back and into the limbs
Vitamin B1 (Beriberi) Deficiency:
- where is the vitamin found?
- Causes?
- Symptoms?
- Signs?
Vitamin- breaksdown carbohydrates and decreases utilization of amino acids
-if defective, the body will utilize ketone bondies- Main=Beta-Hydroxybutrate, acetone (fruity breathe)
Symptoms:
-Numbness, Tingling/burning sensation in extremities, Leg weaknesss, pain, Myelin damage in PNS and DNS(polyneuritis)
Signs:
1) Karsakoff Syndrome
- Chronic/irreversible
- Short Term Memory Loss
- Alcoholic Dementia
- Comfabulation
2) Wernicke Encephalpathy
- Acute/reversible
- Ataxia
- Confusion
- motor/memory loss
Aging Brain
not as many dendritic spines and atrophy of dendritic processes
Slow down:
- exercise brain with puzzles ect.
- maintain proper optimum brain fxn
Brocas area
Involved in Speech
-44 and 45; lateralized on L side of brain
Wernickes area
Involved in comprehension of written in spoken language
Stroke Knocks out MCA
Middle Cerebral Artery causes sensory deficients in face and arm (Upper extremities)`
Broadmanns area
1,2,3a,3b
3a=propioception for muscle spindles-where your body parts are in space
2=Golgi Gendon Organs -sense of tension on tendon
-Joint Sensory=conscious proprioception
3b/1=Cutaneous-pain and temp on skin
Global Aphasia
Destroying a number of areas associated with language
-broacs,wernickes anything else
Aphasia
difficulty of language
Wernickes aphasia
won’t understand what another person is saying
- also called receptive aphasia
- lateralized on L side
Brocas aphasia
lesion on area 44 and 45
- also called expressivity aphasia
- struggle expressing themselves
- writing effecting
- lateralized to left side of brain
Postcentral Gyrus
Sensory Function
Precentral Gyrus
Motor Function
Number of neurons for a 2 y.o vs a newborn
About the same
- not growing more
- more complextivity/branching which allows more synapsing to occur
Cisterns
Widened places in the subarachnoid space
- Ambient cistern
- Quadrageminal cistern
- Interpenduncular cistern
- Cisterna magna
- Pontine AKA prepontine cistern
- Cistern of the lamina terminals
- Chiasmic cistern
- lateral cerebellomedullary cistern
- cerebellopontine cistern
Golgi stain
(silver strain)
-stains neurons, dendrites and axons
Nissl Stain
(stains the RER)
- shows all the other types of the cells inside the cell bodies besides the neurons
- stain catches all types of cells including neurons and non-neurons (glial cells)
Weigert Stain
(silver stain)
-stains myelinated axons
Supragranular layer
last to develop embryologically
Composed of:
1) Molecular layer-very few neurons, dominantly fibers talking to other neurons
2) External granular layer-small population of neurons
3) External Pyramidal layer- pyramidal neurons are located here
4) internal granular layer
Infragranular layer
mostly EFFERENT fibers
-most fibers are being sent away to someplace else
Thickness of cortex varies from region to region
Motor cortex=thickest
visual cortex=thinnest
-both motor and visual have 6 layers
-most cortices have 6 layers but some have 3 layers=hippocampal cortex