Neuro Flashcards
Inability to understand speech?
Wernicky’s aphasia
First 3 tests for stroke?
Non contrast brain CT/MRI, glucose, O2 sat
Sieziure with no loss of consciousness?
Simple partial seizure
Seizure meds with gum overgrowth?
Phenytoin
SAH imaging is negative. Now what test?
LP
3 meds that treat cluster headaches
O2, triptans, stadol
Meds for tremor?
Propranolol
Parkinson’s meds
Dopaminergic (levodopa), anticholinergics
Decreased GABA, Substance P is with what diagnosis?
Huntingtons (Phuntingtons)
Progressively worse ascending paralysis, no deep tendon reflexes
Guillan-Barre
Posterior circulation hemorrhages or blocks cause what?
Vision problems
Focal rhythmic discharges at the onset
Simple partial siezure
MS meds
steroids, interferon beta, polymer 1
Dementia chomosomes
1, 14, 19, 21
Ankle jerk reflex origin
Sacral origin