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Shit list 2 - Neuro Flashcards

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Pilocytic Astrocytoma

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Kids MCC.
Benign.
Posterior fossa i.e. cerebellum, but can be supratentorial.
GFAP +.
Rosenthal fibres (eosinophilic, corkscrew), spindle cells.
Cystic and solid.

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Medulloblastoma

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Kids, 2nd MCC.
Highly malignant.
Type of PNET.
Compress 4th ventricle –> hydrocephalus and drop mets.
Always cerebellum, MC = vermis.
Homer-Wright rosettes.
Solid, small blue cells, high mitotic index.

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Ependymoma

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Kids.
4th ventricle ependymal cells, so can cause hydrcephalus.
[adults MC is spine].
Perivascular pseudo-rosettes.
Rod-shaped blepharoplasts (basal ciliary bodies) near nucleus

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Craniopharyngeoma

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Kids.
Benign.
Supra-tentorial.
Confused with pituitary adenoma as both cause bitemporal hemianopsia.
From rathke’s pouch derivatives, so can calcify.

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Pleiomorphic xanthoastrocytoma

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Kids/teens.
Sudden onset seizures.
Leptomeningeal, reticulin deposits, chronic inflammatory cells.

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CYP 450 Inducers

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Chronic alcoholism.
St. John's Wort.
Phenytoin.
Phenobarbital.
Carbamazapine.
Nevirapine (NNRTI).
Rifampin.
Greisofulvin.
Benzopyrines.
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CYP450 Inhibitors

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Acute alcohol abuse.
Ritonavir (protease).
Amiodarone (III).
Cimetidine.
Ketoconazole.
Isoniazid (INH).
Grapefruit juice.
Quinidine (Ia).
Macrolides (not A, esp E)
Omeprazole
Ciprofloxacin
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Common CYP 450 substrates

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Warfarin.
Anti-epileptics.
Theophylline.
OCP.

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Lithium: use, AE, toxicities

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Use: bipolar and SIADH
AE: tremor, nephrogenic DI, hypothyroidism, Ebstein anomalie
Toxicity: via thiazides

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Atypical Antipsychotics: names, use, general AE. specific AE

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Names: Quetiapine, olanzapine, risperidone, aripooprazole, ziprasidone, clozapine
Use: schizophrenia, bipolar, OCD, anxiety disorders, depression, mania, tourette’s
AE: QT prolongation
Spec AE:
- O/C = weight gain
- C = agranulocytosis (weekly WBC) and seizures (and weight gain)
- R = prolactin

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DOC trigeminal neuralgia

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Carbamazapine

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Myotonic dystrophy: inheritance, s/s

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AD.
CTG repeat.
Type I fibre destruction.
S/S: myotonia (can’t release door knobs), muscle wasting, frontal baldness, arrhythmia, testicular atrophy, cataracts

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Glioblastoma Multiforme

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Adult.
MC malignant (1yr).
Can cross corpus callous to other hemisphere.
GFAP +.
Pseudopallisading, pleiomorphic, central necrosis and hemorrhage

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Meningioma

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Adult.
Benign.
Convexities and parasaggital; extra-axial and may have tail.
From arachnoid cells.
Seizures of focal neurological signs.
Whorrled spindle-cells, psammoma bodies.
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Hemangioblastoma

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Adult.
Cerebellar.
VHL when also have retinal.
Thin-walled capillaries.
Can make EPO.
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Schwannoma

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Adult.
@ cerebello-pontine angle MC.
S-100+.
common on VIII - tinnitus, vertigo, sensory hearing loss - CONSTANT (ddx = mennieres = episodic).
Bilateral VII = NF-2
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Oligodendroglioma

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Adult.
Frontal lobe white matter.
Chicken wire capillaries.
Fried eggs
Often calcify
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uveitis: causes

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Systemic inflammatory diseases: B-27, sarcoidosis, RA, juvenile idiopathic arthritis

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Retinal detachment

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Separation of photo-R layer from RPE –> photoreceptors degenerate –> vision loss.

Secondary to retinal breaks, diabetic traction, inflammatory effusions.

splaying and paucity of retinal vessels.

Flashed and floaters, then curtain drawn down on vision. Emergency

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Central retinal artery occlusion

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Acute.
Painless monocular vision loss.
Cloudy/pale retina.
Attenuated vessels.
*Cherry red fovea*
MCC is ICA embolism --> opthalamic a. --> retinal a.
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Retinitis pigmentosa

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Inherited retinal degeneration.
Starts with night blindness.
Bony spicule shaped deposits.

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Retinitis

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Retinal edema and necrosis.
Via infection - HSV, VZV, CMV.
Also associated with immunosuppression.

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pupillary light reflex

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4 neurons.
CN II (n1) --> pretectal nucleus (midbrain) --> bilateral n2 -->EW nucleus --> n3 --> ciliary ganglion --> short ciliary (n4) --> pupillary spincter muscles

N4 cell body degeneration = Adie’s pupil (mono argyll-robertsons)

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Mydriasis pathway

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3 neurons:
HYpothalamus –> n1 –> ciliospinal centre of bulge (C8-T2) –> n2 –> exit at T1 into superior cervical ganglion –> n3 travels up ICA, through cavernous sinus, enters orbit as named “long-ciliary nerves” to pupil dilators [also tarsal and sweat glands of head and face]

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Pie in the sky

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Meyer’s loop (temporal radiation)

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Pie on the floor

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Dorsal optic radiation (parietal lobe)

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INO: disease, convergence, directional term

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MS, usually bilateral.
Convergence in tact.
Right INO = right MLF lesion = right eye paralyzed

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Demetia diseases and key feature:
Alz:
Pick's:
Lewy body:
CJD:
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Alz: A-beta amyloid and NF tangles, low Ach
Pick’s: personality - disinhibition; WITH parkinsonian
Lewy: dementia BEFORE parkinsonian; visual hallucinations, lewy bodies (alpha-synneuclein)
CJD: w-m dementia with startle myoclonus, no inflammation

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Uthoff’s phenomenon

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Heat sensitivity in MS - worse s/s

30
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Acute disseminates post-infectious encephalomyelitis

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multifocal paraventricular inflammation and demyelination.

After VZV or measles, or rabies/smallpox vaccines

31
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Charcot-marie tooth disease

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AD.
Motor and sensory.
Abnormal proteins or peripheral nerves or the myelin sheath.
Scoliosis, foot deformities i.e. pes cavus, common perineal = plantar-flexed
DDX = Friedrichs

32
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Krabbe
vs.
Metachromatic leukodystrophy

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BOTH: Lysosomal storage disease, destroy myelin sheath, peripheral neuropathy

Krabbe:
Galactocerebroside ad psychosine buildup
S/S = peripheral neuropathy, dev. delay, optic atrophy, GLOBOID CELLS

MCLD:
Arylsulfatase A defic.
sulfatides buildup.
peripheral neuropathy, ataxia, dementia

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PML: cause, exacerbated by

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Cause: JC in AIDS, destruction of oligodendrocytes

Exacerbated by: natalizumab, rituximab

34
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adrenoleukodystrophy

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X-linked
VLCFA
buildup in nervous system, testes, adrenals
Coma/death, adrenal crisis

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Prevent/treat brain vasospasms

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nifedipine

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steppage gait: nerve injured

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Common peroneal

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H1-gen1’s:

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Hzdroxyzine
Promethazine
Chlorpheniramine
Diphenhydramine

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ARMD:

2 types, findings, and Rx

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Dry = dursen = yellowish material; rx = multivitamin, antioxidants, zinc, stop smoking

Wet = neovascularization from hypoxia via drusen; grey/green retina with fluid/bleed; Rx = anti-VEGF, later, Zn, smoking cessation

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Absence Seizures: other names

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  • petit mal

- 3Hz spike wave complexes

40
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Alzheimers drugs: mechanism and names

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AchE inhibitors
Names:
- donepezil
- galantamine
- rivastigmine
- tacrine
41
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Pineal germinoma s/s

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1) Precocious puberty via hCG
2) aqueductal compression causing non-communicating hydrocephalus
3) Tectum compression leading to impaired conjugate vertical gaze and convergence

42
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superior vs inferior colliculi

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Superior = vision (conjugate vertical gaze, convergence

Inferior = auditory (sound localization)

43
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Brainstem lesion shortcuts

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Medial lesion = pure motor + CSTr (motor)

Lateral lesion = mixed + Horners and ALS

44
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Relevant DA pathways

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Mesolimbic-mesocortical - schizophrenia
Nigrostriatal - parkinsons
Tubuloinfundibular - inhibition of prolactin

45
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Thiopental

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IV barbiturate for anesthesia; redistributed into fat and muscle

46
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Drug-induced parkinsonism

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Typical antipsychotics > atypical antipsychotics

Anti-emetic/gastric motility: prochlorperazine, metochlopromide

47
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Rx of drug-induced parkinsons

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ACH ANTAGONIST!
Benztropine, trihexyphenidyl
*but don’t use in old people with BPH or closed angle glaucoma etc…

48
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Hyperacusis via:

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VII damage impairing stapedius muscle contraction to dampen sounds

[tensor tympany is the other muscle, innervated by motor V3]

49
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Middle meningeal artery - where did it come from

50
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Pteryon =

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joining of frontal, temporal, parietal, and sphenoid bones

51
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Clozapine AE

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agranulocytosis, seizures, weight gain (olanzapine)

52
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Myasthenia crisis vs cholinergic crisis

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myasthenia crisis = not enough anti-AchE drug; improves with tensilon administration

cholinergic crisis = too much anti-AChE drug causing depolarization blockade; no improvement with tensilon

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SOD-1 mutations

54
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Nerves that can be affected in vestibular schwannomas

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VIII (obviously; @ CPA) - hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo
VII - facial paralysis, taste, hyperacusis (stapedius), lacrimation/salivation
V - loss of facial sensation, mastication, and corneal reflex sensory

Bilat = NF-2

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Mixed agonist-antagonist opioids

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Pentazocine
Nalbuphine

K agonist - spinal analgesia
mu antagonist

56
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Narcolepsy rx

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Daytime = stimulants: amphetamines, modafinil
Nighttime = sodium oxybate (GHB)
57
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GFAP+

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Astrocytes
oligodendrocytes
Ependymal

58
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1st area damaged in global cerebral ischemia

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Hippocampus (pyramidal neurons) [then also cerebellar pyramidal neurons]

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