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What are the biogenic amines

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Anything that turns into neurotransmitters

Glutamine, gaba glycine, serine, alanine, cystathionine, glutamine, lysine, theonine, leucine

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What are the excitatory neurotransmitters

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Noreepi
Dopamine
Epinephrine
glutamate
serotonin
acetlychline
histamine
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What are the inhibitory neurotransmitters

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Gaba
glycine
nitric oxidie
neurosteroids

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acetyl choline

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Increase: agression,depression

decreased: decreased memory, delirium, delusion

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Dopamine

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Increase: psychoses, anxiety, confusion, aggression

decreased: dementia, movement disorders, depression

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Serotonin

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Increase: anxiety

decreased: depression,dementia

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Norepi

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Increase: anxiety, aggression inattention

Decreased: anxiety

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Gaba

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Increased: affective decrease, lethargy

Decreased: anxiety

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Glycine

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Increased: affective decrease, lethargy

Decreased: anxiety

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Nitrous oxidide

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Increased: sedation, vasodiliation, visual hallucinations

decreased: vasospasm, potential hyperactivity

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Histamine

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Increased: mania
Decreased: depression

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Where are neuro transmitters stored, how are they released

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vesicles store them

actional potential comes down and causes vesicle to bind to pre-synaptic terminal which binds to the post synaptic which will cause action to happen

after binding you will have metabolism and reuptake

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13
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Pro receptor activity vs anti-receptor activity

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Pro: Na or Ca opening channel

Anti: Cl- slows down nervous system

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What B vitamins are required to turn cysteine into taurine.

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B3 and B 6

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What enzyme builds and what breaks down acetyl choline.

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Builds: choline acetylase

Breaks: acetylcholine esterase

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What are the three fates of tryptophan

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Niacinaminde(b3)

Serotonin which converts into melatonin

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17
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Where does melatonin come from? Where and what vitamins does it need

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From serotonin in the pineal gland needs B5, B12 and folate

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deficiency in phenylalanine cause

what about pheny-hydroxylase

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Phenylalanine: retardation

enzyme: Phenyl ketone urea

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What is the pathway to make Epi

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Phenylalanine-tyrosine-L-dopa-dopamine-NE-Epi

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20
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4 fates of tyrosine

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Melanin production
Thyroid hormone
TCA cycle
Doapmine,Ne, Epi

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What does tyrosine hydroxylase need

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B3, Fe

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22
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What happens in the adrenal medulla

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Ne-Epi

the only place that contains N-methyl-transferase

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what is the primary breakdown product of catecholamines in the urine

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Vanillamandilic acid

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what two enzymes are used in the production of catecholamine breakdown

what happens if you have a genetic deficiency in them

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MAO and COMT

Genetic deficiency: Increased NE and Epi= hyper and anxiety sleep disturbance and aggrivation

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N-methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA receptor)

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non catecholamine receptors that mediate excitatory neurotransmission

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What excites NMDA receptors

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Glutamate

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27
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What does Nitric oxide do?

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excites cGMP

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What three things do cGMP act on

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Retina: photoreception

Vascular smooth muscle: vasodilation

AMPA (excitatory receptors): probable desensitization, glutamine class to calm you down

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Histamine 1 receptor

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Exitatory
-increased depolarization in hypothalamic and limbic areas

Snotty nose

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Histamine 2 receptors

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excitatory/stimulating
central and peripheral

slows potassium conductance increasing excitation in the hipocampus, amydala and basal nuclei

runs HCL transporters

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Histamine 3 receptors

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Inhibitory

Blocks calcium channels in the basal nuclei decreasing histamine release

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Histamine 4 receptors

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Inhibitory

slows/modulates NMDA receptor complex

33
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Histidine to histamine needs what vitamin

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decarboxylase so needs B1

34
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Histamine is reduced how and removed how

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reduced: methylation

Removed MAO

35
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what does gaba do

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cl=channel activity to inhibit

Formed from glutamine in CNS

36
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Glycine does what

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also does a Cl- channel but acts like gaba without being gaba

inhibitory/calming

37
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How does the brain know if we have night or day

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the Retino-hypothalamic pathway

38
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What is the circadian control of waking

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ACTCH–creates increased adrenal cortex activity–leads to the AM cortisol surge

brain wakes up

39
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What is the circadian control of calming the brain in PM

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Light diminishes–retino-hypothalamic pathway increases activity = night–fibers communicate with the pineal gland–melatonin released

40
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what is the filter of movement and how does it work

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the basil nuclei/ganglia is the filter of output from the motor cortex

it communicates with the diencephalon and the cerebellum to make smooth motor movement

41
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what are the three functional parts of the cerebellum and what do they do

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Vestibulocerebellum: controls balance and eye movement

pontocerebellum: planning and initiation of movement

Spinocerebellum: synergy, which is control of rate, force, range and direction of movement

42
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What inhibits and excited Basil Nuclei/Ganglia

What does it consist of

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Inhibitory: Gaba
Excitatory: dopamine

allow for plan and execution of smooth movements

consists of: striatum, globus pallidus, subthalamic nuclei, substantia nigra

43
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Huntington’s Chorea

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Choreaform jerky, uncontrolled hyperkinetic movement and demntia

“purposeless movement”

gaba neuron autoimmune attack

44
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Parkinson’s

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Damage to substantia nigra (dopaminergic system)

decreased dopamine

festinating gait, cog-wheel rigidity, pill-rolling resting treamor

45
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ALS/ Lou Gerhigs Disease

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Loss of both lower and upper motor neurons

-mixed presenatition

death following respiratory complication

10% autosomal DOMINANT

46
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Encephalitis

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focal neurological deficit

infx of brain itself

headache persists even as systemic SX

47
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Meningitis

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Infection of the meninges

48
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Most common organisms to cause bacterial meningitits

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E. Coli

H.flu

Meningococcus

49
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Most common organisms to cause brain abscess

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Strep and Staff

increased risk in orbital infections

50
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What is tabes dorsalis associated with

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Neurospyhilis destroying dorsal roots, impaired sensation and ataxia, absent DTR

51
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what can cause encephalitis

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Togaviridae (bird reservoir not horse)

Measles, mumps, chicen pox, rubella = autoimmune encephalitis

HSVI and II

52
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poliomyelitis

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Poliovirus

non-soecific gastroenteritis, flaccid paralysis

53
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What are two types of neuroglial tumors

what are the difference?

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Astrocytoma and Glioblastoma

glioblastoma is a grade 4 astrocytoma

grade 3 is malignant, 1 +2 benign

54
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Where do brain tumors tend to occur in adults?

Children?

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Adults: above tentorium cerebelli

children: below tentorium

55
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What is the most common primary brain tumor of adults

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glioblastoma multiforme

Tumor of the astrocytes that is high grade and no longer like the parent tissue, very aggressive

56
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Acoustic neuroma is what cranial nerve

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CN8

57
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what is meniers like syndrome and what is it associated with

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Acoustic neruoma

vertigo, nausea vomitting

58
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What is von recklinghausens

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Neurofibromatosis, autosomal dominant and mutations

59
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Autoimmune demyelination in the CNS

what dz and sx

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Multiple sclerosis

Glove and stocking parasthesia, optic neuritis

60
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Ascending paralysis that is self limiting after a viral illness

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Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Acute idiopathic polyneuritis, polyradiculoneuropathy

+ gouers sign, walk up theighs to stand up

61
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what bug causes descending paralysis

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botulism

62
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axonal reaction

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axon damaged, cell body enlarges, becomes ascentric and increases protein synthesis

63
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Red neurons

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acute necrosis of neurons, changes before death of neuron

64
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cowdry bodies think

A

herpes

65
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negri bodies think

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rabies

66
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What syndrome do you get with thiamine B 1 deficiency due to alcoholism, what does it lead to

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Wenicke-Korsakoff SYNDROME

confabulations, no short term memory

they make everything up but dont mean to

encephalopathy due to Thiamine deficiency

67
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Pellegra

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Niacin deficiency

4 D’s: Dementia, dermatitis, diarrhea, death

68
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Vitamin B12 deficiency

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Macrocytic anemia

Degeneration of spinal cord (spasticity, weakness, dementia, loss of proprioception)

some PNS symptoms

not cured by folate supplementation

69
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Diffuse cortical atrophy, neurofibillary tangles

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Alzheimers dizsease

70
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Dementia

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clinically finding not a disease

71
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Where are plaques in alzheimers

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Senile plaques in cortex

abnormal tau protein laden nerve processes, microglia, astrocytes

72
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What are the three lysosomal storage disease

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Tay-sachs

Hyrlers

Pompes

73
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what diesase has deficicnecy in hexoaminidase A enzyme and what does that cause

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Tay-Sachs

neurodegenerative disorder that leads to inability to catabolize GM 2 gangliosides

get dementia siezures parylisis and death by age 4

74
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what disease can you not degrade mucopolysaccharides

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Hurker’s

happens peripherally
Retarded growth, skeletal deformities

death by 6-10yo

75
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What disease has alpha-glucosidase deficiency

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Pompe’s

Can make glycogen but can not break it down

get muscular build up like cardiomegaly

76
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What disease results from deficiency in phenylalanine hydroxylase

what happens

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PKU

autosomal recessive

nromal at birth but build up phenylallanine and get mental retarded since they cant convert it to tyrosine

77
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What disease has toxic levels of copper storage

what is the pathoneumonic finding

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Wilson’s Disease

Toxic levels of copper storage leading to kaiser-fleisher rings in the eye, liver and brain

78
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What disease is caused by inborn enzyme deficienies that create abnormal myelin

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Leukodystrophies

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