Neurology Flashcards
Premature infant with blood in lateral ventricles? What if the baby was term?
Germinal matrix –> intraventricular hemorrhage. Germinal matrix is a very vascularized area where neurons and glial cells develop. They migrate out and it regresses at 24-32 weeks, then choroid plexus bleed is most common cause. Another risk for hemorrhage with prematurity is not being able to autoregulate blood flow.
Tuft of hair or skin dimple on lower back?
Spina bifida occulta. Bony spinal canal never closed but no herniation.
Meningocele vs meningomyelocele
Meningocele is just meninges herniating through spinal canal defect, meningomyelocele is both meninges and spinal cord herniating through
Thoraco-lumbar myelomeningocele and paralysis below the defect. Also decreased swallowing, dysphonia, stridor, apnea.
Arnold Chiari malfornation (Chiari II). Cerebella tonsillar and vermian herniation through forament magnum with aqueductal stenosis and hydrocephalus. The medulla going down too causes all those symptoms. II = more severe. With I–> just get cerebellar ataxia when older, and increased risk of syringomyelia
Agenesis of cerebellar vermis and cystic enlargement of 4th ventricle.
Dandy Walker. Also see hydrocephalus and spinal bifida
What embryo layer are microglia from?
Like macs, from mesoderm
Path of TAI and how do you image?
Shear injury –> axonal membrane injury –> influx of sodium and calcium –> axonal swelling –> accumulation of amyloid precursor protein. Need to use DTI to image.
Enlargement of cell body, eccentric nucleus, enlarged nucleolus, dispersion of Nissl substance. What’s going on?
Axonal reaction in response to loss of axon.
Where is NE made?
Locus ceruleus (pons)
Where is DA made?
Ventral tegmentum and SNc (midbrain)
Where is 5-HT made?
Raphe nucleus (pons and rostral medulla). Raphe means seam, neurons are in a line in the middle.
Where is ACh made?
Basal nucleus of Meynert
Where is GABA made?
Nucleus accumbens
Patient is an infant who is failing to thrive. Which hypothalamic area has been destroyed and what is this area usually responsive to?
Lateral. Does hunger, inhibited by leptin.
Patient has hyperphagia. Which hypothalamic area has been destroyed and what is this area usually responsive to?
Ventromedial hypothalamus. Satiety. Stimulated by leptin. Destroyed in cranipharyngioma.
Which part of the hypothalamus does cooling? What ANS does it do?
Fanterior! Also does parasympathetic.
Which part of the hypothalamus does heating? What ANS does it do?
Posterior (pHOTerior). Does sympathetic.
Where does ADH come from? Oxytocin?
Post pit. Receives projections from supraoptic (ADH) and paraventricular (oxytocin)
Where does DA come from in the hypothalamus?
Arcuate nucleus. Inhibits prolactin
Pain, temp, pressure, touch, vibration, and proprioception all travel together to the thalamus. What nucleus is their relay, and what is their destination?
VPL via spinothalamic, dorsal columns/medial lemniscus (dorsal decussate then travel in ML), then go to primary sensory. VPL think vibration pain,pressure,props, and light touch
Face sensation and taste travel to the thalamus via which inputs? Where do they relay and where do they go?
Trigems and gustatory pathway (solitarius) take them there, relay on VPM and then hit up primary sensory. VPM think M for muscles of mastication, then you’ll be thinking V. And face and taste almost rhyme.
What nucleus in thalamus does vision? Where does it go after?
LGN –> calcarine sulcus. LGN for light.
What nucleus in thalamus does hearing? Via what inputs?
CNVIII –> Superior olive in pons –> lateral lemniscus –> inferior colliculus of tectum –> MGN of thalamus. MGN for music.
Motor thalamus? Input?
VL via basal ganglia.
Striatum of BG =
Putamen (motor) and caudate (cognitive)
Lentiform of BG=
Putamen and GP
Hyperorality, hypersexuality, disinhibited behavior. Lesion? Associations?
Kluver Bucy syndrome. Bilateral amygdala lesion. Associated with HSV1
Cerebellar hemisphere lesion vs cerebellar vermis lesion
Hemispheres are lateral and affect lateral limbs. Fall toward side of lesion. Vermis lesions are central, affect trunk. Cause truncal ataxia and dysarthria
STN damage causes contralateral or ipsilateral ____?
Contralateral hemiballismus
Paramedian pontine reticular formation damage vs FEF damage
Pons –> eyes look away from side of lesion, FEF –> eyes look toward side of lesion. IDK if this is true but think of pons as doing the bidding for FEF, FEF is like okay make eyes look away, and pons is like okay and pons is ipsilateral by then so defect makes eyes look away (trying to bring it towards)
What causes locked in syndrome?
Central pontine myelinosis. Commonly caused by overly rapid correction of Na+ levels (hyponatremia). See massive demyelination in pontine white matter tracts.
Poor repetition but fluent speech and intact comprehension
Conduction aphasia
A patient has a stroke and is hyperventilating. The doctor says the hyperventilation is helping the patient. How?
Hyperventilation helps cases of ICP like stroke (causing acute cerebral edema) by decreasing cerebral perfusion. PCO2 will be low, and PCO2 is what determines perfusion. Hypoxemia only influences when PO2 < 50 mmHg
MCA and ACA, which does hand and which does leg?
LACA (lower) and UMCA (upper).
What causes medial medullary syndrome? Lateral medullary syndrome?
Medial: Anterior spinal artery stroke/ vertebral artery stroke. Lateral: PICA lesion. FYI: PICA = branch of vertebral
Contralateral hemiparesis, decreased contralateral proprioception, ipsilateral hypoglossal dysfunction
Medial medullary syndrome. Infarct of paramedian branches of ASA/ vertebral arteries. Hitting the CST before it decussates, the medial lemniscus (has the cuneatus and gracilis info after they decussate), and the hypoglossal nerve as it exits.
Vomiting, vertigo, nystagmus, ipsilateral loss of pain and temp on face, contralateral loss of pain and temp on body, dysphagia, hoarseness, loss of gag reflex, ipsilateral horner’s, ataxia, dysmetria
Lateral medullary syndrome. PICA. If you see nucleus ambiguous effects –> PICA.
Vomiting, vertigo, nystagmus is from vestibular nucleus (located laterally near ICP)
Ipsilateral loss of pain and temp on face is from descending spinal trigems tract
Contralateral loss of pain and temp on body is from hitting the spinothalamic tract
Dysphagia, hoarseness, loss of gag reflex is from hitting the nucleus ambiguous.
Dysmetria and ataxia from hitting ICP
Ipsilateral horner’s is from loss of descending sympathetic control fibers that run near spinothalamic
Nucleus ambiguous vs nucleus solitarius
Ambiguous is motor –> dysphagia and hoarseness with damage (X and IX). Ambiguous is at same level as hypoglossal (rostral medulla). Solitarius = sensory and taste (VII, IX, X in rostral medulla, below does visceral like heart)
Vomiting, vertigo, nystagmus, paralysis of face, decreased lacrimation, decreased taste from anterior 2/3 of tongue, decreased salivation, decreased corneal reflex, face has decreased pain and temp sensation, ipsilateral hearing loss, ipsilateral horner’s
Lateral pontine syndrome. Damage to anterior inferior cerebellar artery.
Vomiting, vertigo, nystagmus: Vestibular nucleus
Paralysis of face, decreased lacrimation, decreased salivation (does all salivary except parotid which is CNIX), decreased taste from anterior 2/3 of tongue, and decreased corneal: hitting CN VII
Decreased pain and temp sensation of face: hitting CN V
Ipsilateral hearing loss: Cochlear nucleus
Horner’s: loss of descending sympathetic control fibers that run near spinothalamic
Blood supply to medulla
Anterior/medial = anterior spinal artery. Anterior/Lateral = vertebral arteries. Posterior/lateral = PICA.
Lateral cuneate nucleus vs cuneate nucleus
Lateral is what Clarke’s nucleus is for the upper extremity. Clarke’s got all the proprioceptive info for the lower extremity (instead of post columns) and sends it up dorsospinocerebellar tract, then for upper extremity the cuneate tract just gets everything, including what needs to go to the cerebellum. So the cuneatus sends the thalamic info to the cuneate nucleus and the cerebellar to the lateral cuneate.
Blood supply to pons
Medial= basilar. Lateral = AICA. Upper pons is just basilar.