Neurology Flashcards
What are the features of narcolepsy?
What is the diagnostic test?
Hypersomnolence
Cataplexy
Sleep paralysis
Hallucinations upon waking
Test:
- Multiple sleep latency EEG
Which antibiotics can induce idiopathic intracranial hypertension?
Tetracycline antibiotics
What is a major diagnosis that needs to be ruled out for a TIA?
Hypoglycemia
What is the time frame for thromboectomy?
Within 6 hours
What is thiamine?
Vitamin B1
Optic chiasm tumours cause bitemporal hemianopias, but they usually affect a quadrant, how does this vary?
Inferior Optic chiasm compression (pituitary tumour) causes:
- Upper quadrant defect
Superior optic chiasm compression (Craniopharyngioma) causes:
- lower quadrant defect
What are the treatment options for neuropathic pain?
Rescue therapy: Tramadol
- exacerbations
1st line are:
- amitriptyline
- duloxetine
- gabapentin
capsaicin - can be trialed for post-herpatic pain
What are the two most important causes of status epilepsy to be ruled out?
Hypoxia
Hypoglycaemia
If a patient develops diplopia when looking to the right, which side is the palsy?
Right side.
the symptoms (diplopia) gets worse the more you look to that side
If some experiences double vision when looking down, say when reading. Where is the palsy?
4th nerve
- trochlear
They get vertical diplopia
Which nerve provides motor innervation to the tongue? What happens if there is damage?
12th
Deviates towards side of lesion
If you had defects in III, IV, V and VI cranial nerves, where may there be a lesion?
Cavernous sinus
What nerves pass though the jugular foramen?
IX, X, XI
What nerves are affect in balbar palsy?
IX, X, XI, XII
- these nerves are within the medulla.
- *it is called bulbar because the medulla means bulb because it looks like a bulb, hence the term “bulbar”
What nerves are associatted with the cerebellopontine angle?
V, VII, VIII
If you had a lesion over the internal capsule where anatomically would you expect to see defects?
Almost entirely across the contralateral side
- since all the fibres filter through this area
What are the signs of an UMN lesion?
Increased tone Spastic weakness Brisk reflexes Clonus - if ankle Up going planters Minimal atrophy *some occurs due to disuse
*UMN signs can take weeks to develop
What is the most commonly inherited neuropathy?
Charcot marie tooth
AD
If there is a lesioni the thalamus, what signs and symptoms would you expect?
Hemi -sensory changes
Drowsiness
If there is weakness on right side of the face, and weakness on the left side of the body, what is this called and where is the lesion likely to be?
What investigation would be most suitable for this?
Crossed sign
- where there is ipsilateral signs on side of lesion on face (distrubution of cranial nerves)
- contralateral weakness/ signs on opposite of body
Lesion will be within the brainstem.
**because certain fibres such as corticospinal tracts haven’t cross over yet. making it contralateral
MRI is needed for investigations. More sensitive than CT