Primer 6

Question 1

Ehlers Danlos has a strong link to what neuro condition?

Answer 1

SAH

Question 2

Contrast dominant and nondominant parietal lesions

Answer 2

Nondominant- neglect
Dominant- language/aphasia complications
*Guerstmans= multiple dominant sensory deficits (counting, reading, speaking, writing)

Question 3

“Drooling farmer” should make you think of?

Answer 3

Organophosphate poisoning

Most likely from insecticides

Question 4

How to remember cholineric effects:

Answer 4

DUMBELLS

SLUDEBBB

Question 5

Two drugs to treat organophosphate poisoning and their mechanisms

Answer 5

Atropine- blocks Ach receptors
Pralidoxime- regenerates AchE by removing phosphate group
(Must be administered within short period of poisoning, always combine with atropine)

Question 6

Two which drug class do these agents belong? 
Bethanecol 
Carbachol
Pilocarpine
Methacholine

Answer 6

Cholineric agonists

Induce things like urination, salivation, miosis

Question 7

Drug used to test for myasthenia gravis

Answer 7

Edrophonium

Question 8

The following drugs belong to what class? 
--stigmines
Edrophonium 
Echothiopate
Donepezil

Answer 8

AchEi

Question 9

Thymic related causes of myasthenia gravis + treatment for MG:

Answer 9

Thymic hyperplasia, atrophy, or tumors

Give: thymectomy, plasmapheresis, immunotherapy, and/or AchEi

Question 10

Alzheimers:

(2) buzzwords
(3) AchEi treatments

Answer 10

• NF tangles, amyloid plaques

- donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine

Question 11

Where are the four types of collagen located?

Answer 11

Strong, slippery, bloody, BM
1- bone, dentin, skin, tendons, fascia, cornea 
2- cartilage, vitreous 
3-vessels/granulation, fetus, uterus,
4- basement membrane 

***the most number of things are type one
Memorize what isn’t.