Neuro Conditions Flashcards
Muscular dystrophy
- typical history and investigations
- gowers sign
- management
- duchennes
- beckers
- myotonic
Botulism
- type of disorder
- use/transmission
- pathophysiology
- signs and symptoms
- treatment
Myasthenia gravis
- aetiology
- associations
- pathophysiology
- antibodies
- presentation
- how to elicit fatigability
- precipitatants
- investigations
- treatment
- complications
- crisis
Lambert Eaton myasthenic syndrome
- type of disorder
- pathophysiology
- presentation
- management
Peripheral neuropathy
- features
- investigations
- treatment
Guillian barre syndrome
- type of disorder
- pathophysiology
- presentation
- diagnosis
- management
- complications
- prognosis
Charcot Marie tooth disease
- type of disorder
- classical features
- other causes of peripheral neuropathy
- management
Diabetic neuropathy
- examination
- management
Entrapment neuropathies
- signs/symptoms
- carpal tunnel syndrome
- ulnar nerve
- radial nerve
- sciatic nerve
- common peroneal
- investigations
- management
Radiculopathies
- features
- sciatica
- nerve root compression in the neck
- investigations
- treatment
- cauda equina
Spinal cord
- acute vs progressive presentation
- UMN symptoms
- investigations
- spastic gait
- b12 deficiency
- anterior spinal artery occlusion
- off legs in elderly patient
Stroke
- types + causes
- classifications
- proximal MCA
- brainstem
- TIA
- presentation
- risk factors
- tools
- management (TIA + stroke)
- underlying cause
- secondary prevention
- rehabilitation
Dementia
- definition
- Alzheimer’s
- Lewy body
- vascular
- frontotemporal
- HIV
- differentials
- delerium
Parkinson’s
- pathophysiology
- triad and other symptoms
- comparison of tremors
- Parkinson plus syndromes
- diagnosis
- management
Parkinson’s drugs
- levodopa
- amantadine
- COMT inhibitors
- Dopamine agonists
- monoamine oxidase B inhibitors
Huntingtons
- genetics
- anticipation
- presentation
- management
- prognosis
Ataxia/cerebellar syndrome
- differentials
- features (ipsilateral or contralateral)
- causes
- investigations
Infections
- shingles
- auto-immune limbic encephalitis
- Lyme disease
- meningitis
- prion disorders
- unexplained neurology
Multiple sclerosis
- type of disorder
- pathophysiology
- causes
- onset
- different presentations
- disease patterns
- diagnosis
- management
Motor neurone disease
- types of MND
- pathophysiology
- risk factors
- presentation
- LMN vs UMN
- diagnosis
- management
- cause of death
Headaches
- unilateral causes
- primary headaches
- red flags
- tension headaches
- secondary headaches
- sinusitis
- medication overuse
- hormonal
- cervical spondylosis
- trigeminal neuralgia
GCA
- links
- presentation + features
- diagnosis
- management
- complications
Migraine
- types
- pathophysiology
- symptoms/ICHD criteria
- aura
- hemiplegic migraine
- triggers
- acute management
- Triptans action and contraindications
- prophylaxis
- stroke risk
