Neuro Flashcards

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Parkinsons disease:

  • Definition
  • Risk factors + protective factors
  • Symptoms
  • Investigations + diagnostic criteria
  • Management
  • Complications
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Parkinsonism:

  • Definition
  • Causes (5)
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Benign essential tumour:

  • Definition
  • Causes
  • Symptoms
  • Investigations + criteria
  • Management
  • DD for tremor
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Motor neurone disease:

  • Definition + types
  • Risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Signs
  • Investigations
  • Management
  • Complications
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Gullian barre syndrome:

  • Definition + pathophysiology
  • Symptoms
  • Investigations
  • Management - supportive + definitive
  • Complications
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Myasthenia gravis:

  • Definition
  • Symptoms
  • Signs
  • Investigations
  • Management
  • Complications
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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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Epilepsy:

Types + management:

  1. Focal
  2. Generalised
  3. Tonic clonic
  4. Myoclonic
  5. Tonic
  6. Atonic

In children:

  1. Infantile spasms + EEG changes
  2. Lennox gastaut syndrome
  3. Benign rolandic epilepsy
  4. Juvenille myoclonic
  5. Absence + EEG changes
  • Medication SE:
  1. Sodium valporate
  2. Carbamezepine
  3. Phenytoin
  4. Ethosuximide
  5. Lamotrigine
  6. Levetiracetam
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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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Polyneuropathies:

  • Definition
  • Symptoms
  • Causes
  • Investigations
  • Management
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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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Bell’s palsy:

  • Definition
  • Risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Management
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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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Space occupying lesions:

  • Definition
  • Causes
  • Signs
  • Red flags signs and symptoms in child
  • Investigations
  • Management
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