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
Essential Tremor 2 meds
B Blocker, primodone
Huntingtons imiging
Cerebral atrophy, caudate nucleus atrophy
Kieser Flescher rings
Wilson’s disease (resessive, chrome 13)
Bacterial Meningitis LP findings
Elevated WBC, low glucose, high protein
Elevated circulating acetylcholine receptor antibodies diagnosis?
Myasthenia Gravis
Generalized spikes, associated slow waves
Generalized/absence siezure
Most common brain mets?
Lung, breast, kidney
What will temporal lobe lesions show?
Auditory hallucination, olfactory
Knee jerk reflex origin?
L3-L4
Intraictal spikes on EEG?
Complex partial siezure
Normal pressure hydrocephalus signs?
Gait disturbance, dementia, urinary incontinence
You can understand speech. What type of aphasia?
Brocca’s
Muscle weakness and fatiguability that improves with rest?
Myasthenia Gravis
