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Myasthenia Gravis: hereditary or Autoimmune disorder?

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Autoimmune disorder

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Define myopathy

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neuromuscular disorders in which the primary symptom is muscle weakness due to dysfunction of muscle fibers.

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What is Myasthenia Gravis

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Neuromuscular disease of the neuromuscular junction, Skeletal m. weakness that worsens with activity and improves with rest.

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Symptoms of Myasthenia Gravis?

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  • Diplopia (double vision)
  • Facial weakness
  • Ptosis- (eyelid drooping)
  • SOB
  • Weakness in neck, UE, LE
  • Fatigue
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Interventions fro Myasthenia Gravis?

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  • Interval training
  • Fatigue intervention/ conservation
  • Physical and behavioral training
  • Resistance, Aerobic, and balance.
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Precautions of Myasthenia Gravis?

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• MG Crisis
o Medical emergency where breathing stops and the individual requires ventilation.
o Not always related to exercise .

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Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD): hereditary or Autoimmune disorder?

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Hereditary

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What does Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD) affect?

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Affects proximal muscles, Some may have cardiomyopathy

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Early stages of Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy presents what symptoms? (early and late)?

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  • Early stage: changes in walking, hands on knees to transition.
  • Late Stage: may require a w/c
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Interventions for Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy?

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  • Resistance training
  • Aerobic training
  • Work more on functional tasks
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Age for male and women to get Myasthenia Gravis?

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Women< 40 yrs

men >60 yrs

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Fascioscapularhumeral Muscular Dystrophy % of type 1 vs type 2?

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type 1 : 95%

type 2: 5%

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Fascioscapularhumeral Muscular Dystrophy: hereditary or Autoimmune disorder?

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hereditary

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When do symptoms come about (age) for Fascioscapularhumeral Muscular Dystrophy?

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before 20

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Number one symptom or presentation of Fascioscapularhumeral Muscular Dystrophy?

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Mask-like appearance

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Interventions for Fascioscapularhumeral Muscular Dystrophy?

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  • Pulmonary function test
  • Speech therapy
  • Hamstring and trunk muscles early onset
  • Maintain flexibility
  • Manage pain
  • Orthotics
  • Gait aid
  • w/c
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are thick or thin myelin faster?

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Thicker the faster conduction

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are thick or thin myelin slower?

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thin is slower conduction

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Shwann cells make?

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Myelin in the PNS

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oligodendrocytes make?

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Myelin in the CNS

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How is Bell’s palsy acquired?

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after a viral infection

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What does Bells palsy affect?

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Half of the face

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What nerve does bells palsy affect ?

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CN 7 (facial nerve)

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What percent of Bell’s palsy patients have a full recover?

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71%

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How does Trigeminal Neuralgia present?

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Really bad facial pain: brief, intense bursts of pain within a distribution of pain.

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How does one get Trigeminal Neuralgia?

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compression of trigeminal nerve (CN5)

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What is Poliomyelitis? what causes it?

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Epidemic in the 1950s

Caused by a virus that is highly infectious especially in children <5 y.o

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Symptoms of Poliomyelitis?

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  • Fever
  • Fatigue
  • Headache
  • Vomiting
  • Stiffness of the neck
  • Pian in the limbs
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What is Postpolio Syndrome (PPS)

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New neuromuscular symptoms that occur decades after recovery

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Who develops Postpolio Syndrome (PPS) ?

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¼ to ½ with childhood polio develop PPS.

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What symptoms do Postpolio Syndrome (PPS) have?

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Deterioration in the LE, predispose individuals to overuse of UE m. for compensation.

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Interventions for Postpolio Syndrome (PPS)?

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	Non-exhaustive exercises. 
	General body conditioning
	Lifestyle modifications/ energy conservation 
	Compensation 
	Prevention
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: Hereditary or autoimmune?

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Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy.

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What does Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease symptoms look like?

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Distal limb muscle wasting and weakness,
abnormalities in DTRs and skeletal deformity.
Begins with affecting ankle DF and EV (peroneal n.)

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Which type of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease is axonal?

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  • CMT1: Dysmyelinating
  • CMT2: Axonal
  • CMT3: Dysmyelinating
  • CMT4: Dysmyelinating or axonal
  • CMT5: Dysmyelinating
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) Affect what cells?

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Schwann cells and neurons

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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) is under what classification?

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metabolic

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Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) & AIDP Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy presents?

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most common cause of rapidly evolving motor paresis, paralysis, and sensory deficits.

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Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) & AIDP Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy is motor or sensory?

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either motor and sensory

or
Just motor

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Name the peripheral nervous system disorders?

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o	Myasthenia Gravis
o	Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 
o	Fascioscapularhumeral Muscular Dystrophy 
o	Bell’s Palsy
o	Trigeminal Neuralgia 
o	Poliomyelitis
o	Postpolio Syndrome (PPS)
o	Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease 
o	Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy 
o	Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)/ AIDP
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ALS- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is most common in men or women?

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Men

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When does ALS typically present? (age)

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40+

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Define: ALS- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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Progressive NM disease characterized by degeneration and eventual death of upper motor neurons and LMN causing weakness of the limb, respiratory, and bulbar musculature.

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Pathology of ALS

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Dysfunction of the EAAT2

Loss of
brainstem CN nuclei and
anterior horn cells in spinal
cord

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For GBS/AIDP what do we want to avoid?

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fatigue exercises

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When would you see foot deformities?

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Charcot foot deformities

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What percent of people with DM will develop Diabetic peripheral neuropathy?

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50%

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Who are most likely to get ALS

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White males

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ALS scale to diagnose

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EI Escorial Criteria

Presence of all three:
o LMN degeneration by exam.
o UMN degeneration by exam
o Progression of the motor syndrome within a region or to other regions by Hx and exam.

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ALS survival rate for 3, 5 and 10 years

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3 years: 50%
5 years: 20%
10 years: 10%

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What are negative progonistic factors for ALS?

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  • Negative prognostic factors:
  • Bulbar onset
  • Weight loss
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Impaired respiratory function
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what are the two staging outcomes we use for ALS? and score ranges

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King’s Clinical Staging (0-5)
&
MITOS Functional Staging (0-5)

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For ALS what gets affected first distal or proximal extremities?

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Distal to proximal

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54
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Weakness, low tone (hypotonia) and decreased/absent reflexes are signs of what?

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LMN lesion

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Hyperrelexia would be result of?

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UMN lesion

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56
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Clonus, babinski, Hoffmans is a ___ lesion?

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UMN lesion

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57
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Largest gene in the body?

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Dystrophin

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Whats apraxia?

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It’s when you can’t do learned movements on command

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true or false: you can do a prenatal screen for Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy

60
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What can you do a prenatal screen for?

61
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What is the 2nd most common type of dementia

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Vascular dementia

62
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What are the cardinal signs of PD?

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	TRAP
•	T: tremor: resting. 
•	R: rigidity 
•	A: Bradykinesia (Akinesia) 
•	P: Postural instability
63
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What type of tremor is associated with PD

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resting tremor

64
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Age and percentage of boys that lose ambulation with DMD?

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age 10-12: >70% of boys lose ambulation

65
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What age do boys present Prominent muscle weakness with DMD ?

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5 years old

66
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Signs of SMA (spinal muscular atrophy)

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Smart 
Kind
they can slip through your arms 
hand tremor 
tongue fassiculations
67
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What part of the brain does Parkinson’s affect?

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Substantia nigra (in the basal ganglia)

68
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most common form of hereditary ataxia in the US?

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Fredrick’s Ataxia

69
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What part of the brain is damaged With ATAXIA

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Cerebellum

70
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Are the impairments from guillaine barre permanent?

71
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GB symptoms

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Tingling
numbness
weakness
starting distal to proximal

72
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Name the two Subcortical Dementias?

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  1. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)

2. Huntington’s disease

73
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Scales used for dementia?

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global deterioration scale 1-7

GEMS

74
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Can you do blood work tests for Parkinson’s?

75
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medications for PD

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dopamine replacement and deep brain stimulator

76
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how long do deep brain stimulators work for?

77
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How long does Dopamine replacement for PD last?

78
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whats the gold standard diagnostic test thing for PD?

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UPDRS (united parkinsons disease rating scale)

79
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Whats the 2nd used scale diagnostic test thing for PD?

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Hoehn and Yahr

80
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Parkinson’s has too much or too little dopamine?

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not enough

81
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Which disease is characterized by choreic (dance) movements?

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HUNTINGTONS

82
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what stages of Hoehn and Yahr involve unilateral deficits ?

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1, 1.5 and 2

83
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Stocking glove pattern neuropathy is associated with that?

84
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Why is MS considered an autoimmune disease ? what attacks what ?

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T cell and B cells are overproduced and attack oligodendrocytes.

85
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What chemical imbalance causes HD?

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Chromosome 4 produced a protein called huntingtin which caused neuronal degeneration and death.

86
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Whats the most common type of MS ?

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Relapsing-remitting

87
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What the most effective way to manage heat with MS?

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Spray bottle with fan

88
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what a cardinal sign of ATAXIC DYSARTHRIA?

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“scanning speech” slurred “drunk”

89
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Where does PICA come off of ?

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vertebral artery

90
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Where does AICA come off of ?

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basilar artery

91
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Where does most of the blood supply in brain come from?

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Superior cerebellar A

92
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Where is the big dentate nucleus located?

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cerebellum

93
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Can someone with stage 4 Huntington’s live independently ?

94
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Most primitive (vestibular nuclei) is in the ?

95
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blank percent of MS patients will require an aid to walk within blank years?

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50% within 10 years

96
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Whats the best type of MS to get?

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relapsing-remitting

97
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Where is MS more common?

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In US and Europe, places where there is less sunlight (VITAMIN D)

98
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What type of medication is used for MS

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corticosteroids

99
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What is the number one important thing to ppl with MS?

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Walking is generally the most important function to people. (70%)

100
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Biggest symptom for ppl with MS?

101
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If someone can walk 500 meters With MS what general range EDSS are they on?

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0-3.5: Mild Disability

102
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If someone can walk 100-500 meters With MS what general range EDSS are they on

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4-5.5: Moderate Disability

103
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If someone cant walk 100 meters Without assistance with MS what general range EDSS are they on.

104
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Name some non motor signs of Parkinson’s ?

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Olfactory loss, sleep dysfunction, autonomic dysfunction, hallucinations, dementia

105
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Older age, lower BMI, cigarette smoking, being a professional athlete, and repeated head injuries are all risk factors for what ?

A

ALS (lou gertis)

106
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Most important intervention for patients with dementia

107
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What progresses faster: postural instability and gait disorder or tremor predominant PD

108
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What is the gold standard for measuring PD impairments ?

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UPDRS (higher the score the worse)

109
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Is ALS an UMN or LMN disease ?

110
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Most ppl with MS will not be working within ____ years?

111
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A scared look is a characteristic of what disease ?

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Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)

112
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PD plan of care, emphasize what 4 things

A

Flexibility, strength, aerobic conditions and task specific training?

113
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Describe what happens with SMA if the novel treatment isn’t given

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mm atrophy until eventual respiratory/cardiac failure

114
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SMA’s novel treatment lets them?

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gene therapy: lives a full life

115
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What is a common gait abnormality in patients with CMT

116
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True or false: there is novel treatment for CMT

117
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Describe common gait abnormalities in DMD

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Extended, closed-packed and trendelenberg

118
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Too much or too little dystrophin in DMD?

119
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True or false: SMA is an autosomal recessive disease?

120
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Which is most common type of CMT: dysmyelinating or axonal ?

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dysmyelinating

121
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Lewy body and huntingtons are what types of dementia

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subcoritcal

122
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What type of memory is best to train w dementia ? implicit or explicit

123
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What type of memory do you train with cerebellar disorders? implicit or explicit

124
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Are fruits and vegetables helpful in protecting yourself against dementia?

125
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What serious medical complication comes from bell’s palsy ?

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eye can dry out

126
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Whats the difference between stroke and bells palsy sx?

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Bell’s palsy is complete paralysis, Stroke can raise their eyebrows.

127
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Explain why a pes cavus happens with CMT?

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Something to do with the DF/EV losing control first. (peroneal n damage)

128
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Whats dysmetria?

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Impaired ability to scale movement distance

129
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A cerebellar tremor is also called what kind of tremor?

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action tremor

130
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When do Fredricks ataxia symptoms start?

131
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Are Focal lessions better or worse prognosis

132
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idiopathic disease? (no known cause)

A

multiple systems atrophy (MSA)

133
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DO blood supply zones and functional zones correlate?

134
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Name the functional zones

A

Cerebrocerebellum

Spinocerebellum

Vestibulocerebelum

135
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What is the largest functional zone?

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cerebrocerebellum

136
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What is cerebrocerebellum zone?

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Largest and in charge of planning and initiating voluntary movement

137
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What is spinocerebelar zone?

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comparator, regulation of muscle tone and coordinates skilled voluntary movement, postural tone

138
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Vestibularcerebellum where is the nuclei

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in brain stem

139
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What does vestibularcereebelum do?

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balance, eye movement VOR

140
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How do we treat cerebellar disorders implicit or explicit learning?

141
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What is deep in the cerebellum?

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Fastigial nucleus anf Dentate nucleus

both nucleus

142
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Where is vestibular nuclei?

143
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where are purkinji cells

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white matter

144
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What can you do to test Dysmetria?

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heel to shin, finger to nose test

145
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Scale for ataxia

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BARS, SARA, ICARS

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