Neuro Flashcards
1
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Parkinsons disease:
- Definition
- Risk factors + protective factors
- Symptoms
- Investigations + diagnostic criteria
- Management
- Complications
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2
Q
Parkinsonism:
- Definition
- Causes (5)
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3
Q
Benign essential tumour:
- Definition
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Investigations + criteria
- Management
- DD for tremor
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4
Q
Motor neurone disease:
- Definition + types
- Risk factors
- Symptoms
- Signs
- Investigations
- Management
- Complications
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5
Q
Gullian barre syndrome:
- Definition + pathophysiology
- Symptoms
- Investigations
- Management - supportive + definitive
- Complications
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6
Q
Myasthenia gravis:
- Definition
- Symptoms
- Signs
- Investigations
- Management
- Complications
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7
Q
Epilepsy:
- Definition
- Definition of a seizure
- Causes of a seziure
- Risk factors
- Triggers for a provoked seizure
- Complications
- Investigations
- General management for epilepsy (not medications)
- DVLA criteria
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8
Q
Epilepsy:
Types + management:
- Focal
- Generalised
- Tonic clonic
- Myoclonic
- Tonic
- Atonic
In children:
- Infantile spasms + EEG changes
- Lennox gastaut syndrome
- Benign rolandic epilepsy
- Juvenille myoclonic
- Absence + EEG changes
- Medication SE:
- Sodium valporate
- Carbamezepine
- Phenytoin
- Ethosuximide
- Lamotrigine
- Levetiracetam
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9
Q
Multiple sclerosis:
- Definition + what cells does it affect
- Causes
- Risk factors
- Pattern of disease
- Symptoms (common presentations)
- Signs
- Investigations
- Management
- Complications
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10
Q
Polyneuropathies:
- Definition
- Symptoms
- Causes
- Investigations
- Management
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11
Q
Facial nerve palsy:
- Definition
- Signs
- Causes of UMN lesion in face
- Causes of LMN lesion in face
- What is ramsey hunt syndrome + management
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12
Q
Bell’s palsy:
- Definition
- Risk factors
- Symptoms
- Management
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13
Q
Headaches:
- Tension: symptoms, causes, management
- Migraine: triggers, symptoms, management
- Cluster: symptoms, triggers, management
- Trigeminal neuralgia: definition, symptoms, triggers, investigations, management
- Medication overuse: symptoms, management
- Other secondary causes of headaches
- Red flag symptoms for headache
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14
Q
Space occupying lesions:
- Definition
- Causes
- Signs
- Red flags signs and symptoms in child
- Investigations
- Management
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