Qtr 3 Head and Neck Neurology (RAJA) Final

What is the most common location of an Intraparenchymal hemorrhage?

What is the most common cause of cerebral hemorrhage?

What might a patient be diagnosed with if they present with sudden loss of consciousness, hemiplegia, convulsions, coma?

What type of hemorrhage occurs with a berry aneurysm?

What is the most common cause of a subarachnoid hemorrhage?

What is the symptomology of a subarachnoid hemorrhage?

What vein is most vulnerable to a subdural hemorrhage?

What is the most common cause of a subdural hemorrhage?

What artery is commonly injured by a skull fracture and what type of hemorrhage does it cause?

What percent of Berry aneurysms occur within the carotid supply?

What type of aneurysm is most common in subacute bacterial endocarditis. It can spread infection into the subarachnoid space and cause leptomeneningitis and brain abscess?

Where do most thrombosis cause damage in the brain?

Where does atherosclerosis most commonly appear first in the brain?

What percentage of adults have experienced a severe or disabling headache at least once?

Where is headache pain referred from the brain parenchyma?

What type of headache is caused by muscle spasm, irritation of nasal and accessory structures, and eye disorders?

What type of headache causes extreme pain over the entire head?

What type of headache is caused by a lumbar puncture?

What is another name of a classical headache?

Are migraines unilateral or bilateral?

What type of headache presents with pain around one eye, tearing of eye, ptosis, stuffy nose, temporal pain?

What type of headache presents with an abrupt elevation in BP, Tachycardia, palpitations, sweating, tremor, sense of apprehension?

where are neurofibrillary tangles found in alzheimer's disease?

Where are neuritic plaques found in alzheimer's disease?

What areas of the brain are atrophied in Pick's disease?

In what disease would one see lewy bodies?

What are the parts of the corpus callosum?

What type of fibers synapse with the anterior lobe of the cerebellum?

What type fibers synapse with the posterior lobe of the cerebellum?

What type of fibers synapse with the folliculonodular lobe of the cerebellum?

What are the three layers of the cerebellum?

What are the fibers of the spinocerebellar and pontocerebellar tracts called?

What is caused by denaturing of proteins of the lens of the eye? (inability to accommodate)

What is hyperopia and what is the correction?

What is Myopia and what is the correction?

What is the correction for astigmatism?

A rare neurologic disorder that impairs autonomic function and has parkinsonian symptoms

Atrophy of Caudate nucleus, frontal and temporal gyri

What chromosome is the mutant gene for Huntington's disease found on?

Individuals having more than 40 repeating CAG sequences

what is the probable mechanism of cell death in Huntington's disease?

Beta-hemolytic strep infection (rheumatic fever) is precursor. Typical onset of 5-15 yrs of age. 3-6 month duration of chorea?

Mutation of long arm of chromosome 13. Symptoms: Tremor, diminished dexterity, unsteady gate, rigidity, Kayser-Fleischer ring?

What movement is seen in globus pallidus lesion?

Where is the lesion most likely in hemiballismus?

Where is the lesion most likely in Chorea (quick jerky movments face and limbs)

How does dopamine affect the direct and indirect pathways respectively?

CSF findings: Clouded, increased pressure, increase in neutrophils, increased protein, absence of sugar (eaten by bacteria), presence of organism

What type of infection would you see CSF with: increase in lymphocytes and proteins, normal glucose?

Rapidly fatal dementia, pyramidal and extrapyramidal symptoms, severe atrophy of brain; intense astrocytosis in cerebral cortex, caudate, putamen.

What is the anatomical presentation of prion diseases?

Papovavirus that infects oligodendrocytes 
Symptoms: hemiparesis, intellectual impairment, blindness, aphasia, death 3-6 months

Type of meningitis narrowing and obliteration of subarachnoid space due to trabeculae formation leading to hydrocephalus

Onset is insidious, anorexia and weightloss. 
CSF contents: lymphocytes, increased protein, decreased glucose, tubercle bacilli

Associated with prior measles infection
multifocal areas of neuronal, destruction and gliosis fatal in 1-2 years.

What is the most common demylination disease?

What area if the spinal cord is most commonly affected by Multiple sclerosis?

CSF FINDINGS: increased lymphocytes and Ig levels, normal glucose levels, oligoclonal immunoglobulin bands

A patient presents with scanning speech, intention tremor, nystagmas what is your initial diagnosis?

What viral infections are associated with acute disseminating encephalomyelitis

What disease involves demyelination of the peripheral nerves?

CSF Findings: Albumino-cytoogic dissociation of CSF, greatly increased protein, slightly increased cell count

CN VII Upper motor neuron (ipsilateral or contralateral)

Where is the lesion: ipsilateral facial paralysis, loss of tast over anterior two thirds of tongue, hypercousis?