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Neuro Flashcards

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Besides a traumatic tap, what condition is often associated with red blood cells in the cerebrospinal fluid on lumbar puncture?

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HSV encephalitis

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Bilateral lateral rectus palsy is often seen with what vascular condition?

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Cavernous sinus thrombosis

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Blood pressure greater than or equal to what value is a contraindication for t-PA therapy in patients with ischemic stroke?

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Systolic blood pressure greater than185mmHg or Diastolic blood pressure greater than 110mmHg

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An obese individual with headaches is found to have a high opening pressure during lumbar pressure. What Is the best medication for this pt’s likely condition?

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Acetazolamide (Carbonic anhydrase inhibitor)

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Name four commonly prescribed medications that can cause aseptic meningitis.

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TMP-SMX (Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole), IVIG (Immunoglobulin),NSAIDS, Carbamazepine

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Patient is found to have left homonymous quadrantanopia. Where is the lesion?

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Right optic radiation

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What are the MRI T1 (increased/decreased)and T2 (increased/decreased) signal changes seen in patients with multiple sclerosis?

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Decreased T1 and Increased T2

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Optic chiasm compression will lead to what eye abnormality?

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Bitemporal hemianopsia

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What area of the brain is affected with the diagnosis featuring bradykinesia, cogwheel rigidity, postural instability and resting tremor?

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Substantia nigra (likely diagnosis is Parkinson’s disease)

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Rapid fire txt: Tonic-clonic seizures

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Levetiracetam, phenytoin, valproate, carbamazepine

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Rapid fire txt: Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux)

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Carbamazepine

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Atrophy of the mammillary bodies associated w/what dz?

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Wernicke encephalopathy (thiamine deficiency causing ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and confusion)

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Guillain Barre Syndrome tx?

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Rx: IVIG and Plasmapheresis

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Don’t confuse GBS w/what dz that has descending paralysis?

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Botulism

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Rapid fire txt: Absence seizures

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Ethosuximide (treatment)

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Rapid fire assoc: Yellowish CSF

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Xanthochromia (eg, due to subarachnoid hemorrhage)

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Rapid fire txt: Malignant hyperthermia

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Dantrolene

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Rapid fire txt: Migraine

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Abortive therapies (eg, sumatriptan, NSAIDs); prophylaxis (eg, propranolol, topiramate, CCBs, amitriptyline)

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Rapid fire txt: Temporal arteritis

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High-dose steroids

20
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Rapid fire assoc:Silver-staining spherical aggregation of tau proteins in neurons

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Pick bodies (Pick disease: progressive dementia, changes in personality)

21
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Rapid fire assoc: Protein aggregates in neurons from hyperphosphorylation of tau protein

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Neurofibrillary tangles (Alzheimer disease) and Pick bodies (Pick disease)

22
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Rapid fire assoc:Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion in neuron

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Lewy body (Parkinson disease and Lewy body dementia)

23
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Rapid fire assoc:Eosinophilic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebellar neurons

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Negri bodies of rabies

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Rapid fire assoc:Extracellular amyloid deposition in gray matter of brain

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Senile plaques (Alzheimer disease)

25
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Rapid fire assoc: Degeneration of dorsal column fibers

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Tabes dorsalis (3º syphilis), subacute combined degeneration (dorsal columns, lateral corticospinal, spinocerebellar tracts affected)

26
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Rapid fire assoc:Depigmentation of neurons in substantia nigra

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Parkinson disease (basal ganglia disorder: rigidity, resting tremor, bradykinesia)

27
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Rapid fire assoc: Bloody or yellow (xanthochromia) tap on lumbar puncture

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage

28
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Toe extension/fanning upon plantar scrape

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Babinski sign (UMN lesion)

29
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Unilateral facial drooping involving forehead

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LMN facial nerve (CN VII) palsy; UMN lesions spare the forehead

30
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Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech, bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia

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Multiple sclerosis

31
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Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis

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Horner syndrome (sympathetic chain lesion)

32
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Pupil accommodates but doesn’t react

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Neurosyphilis (Argyll Robertson pupil)

33
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Rapidly progressive limb weakness that ascends following GI/upper respiratory infection

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Guillain-Barré syndrome (acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculopathy subtype)

34
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Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability, shuffling gait

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Parkinson disease (loss of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra pars compacta)

35
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Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration

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Huntington disease (autosomal dominant CAG repeat expansion)

36
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Conjugate horizontal gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia

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Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (damage to MLF, may be unilateral or bilateral)

37
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Lucid interval after traumatic brain injury

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Epidural hematoma (middle meningeal 
artery rupture)
38
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What is the triad of symptoms you would expect in a patient with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)?

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Ataxia (wide based gait), dementia,and urinary incontinence (Wet, wobbly, wacky)

39
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Bilateral acoustic schwannomas dx?

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Neurofibromatosis type 2

40
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Which class of medication is used to prevent vasospasm in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage?

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Calcium channel blockers (eg.nimodipine, nifedipine)

41
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What is POUND criteria for migraine?

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Pulsatile quality, one day duration, unilateral, nausea or vomiting, disabling intensity

42
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Persistent vertigo, limb ataxia, bidirectional nystagmus, symptoms greater than 72 hours suggest what diagnosis?

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cerebellar stroke

43
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Highly aggressive cancer. Pts p/w seizures, n/v, headache, rapid neuro decline. What’s the dx?

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Glioblastoma multiforme

44
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Scattered ovoid shaped, periventricular white matter lesions on MRI suggest what diagnosis?

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Multiple sclerosis

45
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What diagnosis is suggested by foot or wrist drop as well as pain, nausea, loss of reflexes?

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Mononeuritis multiplex

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