Neuro

Question 1

Dementia

Answer 1

Agnosia inability to recognize object

Apraxia difficulty with motor planning to perform tasks or movement

Aphasia is loss of ability to understand or express speech

Question 2

Alzheimer’s

Answer 2

Acetylcholineasterase inhibitors are used

Question 3

XII Hypoglossal

Answer 3

Tongue movement

Question 4

XI Spinal Accessory

Answer 4

shrug shoulders

Question 5

IV

Answer 5

Downward and inward eye movement

Question 6

V and VII

Answer 6

facial sensory motor control

VII also taste, saliva and tear secretion

Question 7

X

Answer 7

Swallowing, gag reflex

Question 8

III

Answer 8

Extraocular eye movements and opening lids

Question 9

VIII acoustic nerve

Answer 9

hearing

Question 10

Complex partial seizures

Answer 10

often follow simple partial seizures (blank stare/nonverbal, lip smacking, LOC)

Question 11

Status epilepticus

Answer 11

Emergency, uncommon, life threatening, series of grand map seizures lasting >10m

Question 12

Absence or petit mal seizure

Answer 12

sudden arrest of motor activity, brief LOC

Question 13

Simple Partial Seizure

Answer 13

No LOC

Question 14

Tonic Clonic/Grand Mal

Answer 14

LOC, repetitive involuntary contractions, 2-5m, incontinence