Nervous system diseases

Question 1

What is a progressive disease that affects the anterior horn and corticospinal tract with no sensory loss (LMN in upper extremities and UMN in lower extremities)?

Answer 1

ALS (Lou Gherig’s Disease)

Question 2

What is the number 1 cause of Dementia and consists of Neurofibrillary tangles, amyloid plaques, and Hirano bodies?

Answer 2

Alzeheimer’s Disease

Question 3

What is a cerebellar tonsil herniation through the foramen magnum and is associated with syringomyelia?

Answer 3

Arnold-Chiari Type 1

Question 4

What is a cerebellar tonsil herniation through the foramen magnum with Meningiomyelocele (spina bifida) in the lumbar spine?

Answer 4

Arnold-Chiari Type 2

Question 5

What is the most common cerebellar tumor?

Answer 5

Medulloblastoma

Question 6

What is a peripheral demyelinating disease that your own body’s immune system attacks your nerves

Answer 6

Guillain-Barre syndrome

Question 7

What syndrome involves ptosis, miosis, anyhydrosis, enopthalalmosis?

Answer 7

Horner’s syndrome

Question 8

What is a liquefactive necrosis with skin damage and destruction of sensory nerves? Also called “Hansen’s disease”

Answer 8

Leprocy

Question 9

What is a central demyelination and placing of the spinal cord causing scanning speech, intention tremor, and nystagmus?

Answer 9

Multiple Sclerosis

Question 10

What is a weakness and rapid fatigue of muscles under voluntary control along with diplopia, ptosis, and middle-aged females?

Answer 10

Myasthenia Gravis

Question 11

What disease has deficient Dopamine, Lewy bodies, tremors at rest, and a festinating/shuffling gait

Answer 11

Parkinson’s disease

Question 12

What is a cyst-like formation from the central canal of the spinal cord that leads to loss of pain and temperature and signs of an upper motor neuron lesion?

Answer 12

Syringomyelia

Question 13

What is alcoholic psychosis with dementia; depletion of Thiamine (B1) due to severe alcoholism?

Answer 13

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome