neuro 2

  1. Laterality of the brain
    Broca and Wernikes are associated with the left side of the brain 

    the right side of the brain is more involved in the nuances of speech like tone, rhythm, the way things were said NOT so much what was said.. "THE RIGHT WAY TO SAY SOMETHING"
  2. Damage to the arcuate fasciculus
    may know what you want to say after hearing and seeing something but then cannot say it. 

    Broca's area can also be unchecked and will cause a fluent aphasia because the wernikes area cannot moderate what you are saying
  3. Wernikes and Brocas area and association with other regions
    • Primary auditory to Wernike's area (association area)
    • Primary visual cortex to Angular gyrus (association area) to Wernikes area

    From Wernike's area (arcuate fasciculus) to the broca's area
  4. Aphasia:
    Broca's NONFLUENT aphasia: produce few words, either written or spoken, use stock phrases repeatedly (e.g., “OK,” “Oh boy!”); words are produced with great difficulty, leave out all but the most meaningful words in a sentence and to speak or write in a telegraphic manner.

    Wernikes FLUENT Aphasia: substitutions of one letter or word for another, insertion of new and meaningless words, or stringing together of words and phrases in an order that conveys little or no meaning. patients have difficulty comprehending whether their own speech makes sense
  5. What are things involved in speech?
    • Motor cortex--that enables vocal muscles to move 
    • Brocas 
    • Wernikes area
  6. Injury to 18 and 19
    interpretation defects--spatial orientation impaired
  7. Area 17 lesions
    irritative- causes hallucinations and random visions that may not be present 

    destructive: contralateral defects in the visual field--you will only be able to see half the image (homonymous hemianopsia)
  8. In the visual field what has more representation
    the fovea does
  9. How is the visual field distributed
    The central regions like the fovea are located in the back of the parietal lobe. 

    The peripheral regions are located more anteriorly

    some components of the central and posterior are common to both eyes but the more left you go peripherally that stuff is only gonna show on the left periphery
  10. Occipital lobe cortex and association cortex
    Primary visual cortex is associated with area 17 IN THE CALCARINE FISSURE 


    and association areas are located in 18 and 19-- they start in the occipital lobe but expand into the temporal lobe as well
  11. Uncus
    is located in the temporal lobe with the hippocampus.. it is associated with olfaction but does not cross the thalamus
  12. Hippocampus
    damage--you will not be able to make new memories after the damage occurs...prior to the damage all the memories you made will be intact
  13. Describe the architecture of the primary auditory cortex
    granular-densely packed with cells and each region is able to detect a different sound intensity
  14. Primary auditory cortex is located in what area...
    Area 41 transverse temporal gyrus
  15. Unilateral lesion to the transverse temporal gyrus
    Does not cause deafness because you are receiving input from both ears-- you may have decreased sensitivity or decreased ability to localize the stimuli in the CONTRALATERAL SIDE

    bilateral damage=deafness
  16. Parietal lobe lesions to the somatosensory cortex
    Irritative lesions-- will cause overstimulation of sensation-- tingling, burning in the CONTRALATERAL side effected. 

    destructive lesions: will cause impaired ability to localize or measure the intensity of the painful stimuli. (because of the way the cortex is organized you can determine location and intensity--homonculus)
  17. Agnosia is mote common in:
    visual agnosia: you can see everything but you cannot recognize or name things by looking at it. 

    Jeff: can see everything in his vanity--but to get the toothpaste he can't just look at the toothpaste and grab it-- he has to touch feel smell etc everything to be able to recognize what the toothpaste is-- because visual association cortex is not working.

    too many items around can confuse him
  18. Damage to unimodal areas can cause:
    Agnosia--the inability to recognize things
  19. Prefrontal cortex is an example of a ..... association cortex
    multimodal-- it requires input from many different parts of the brain
  20. How can you test for damage in the dorsolateral function of the prefrontal cortex
    Wisconsin Card Sorting test 

    requires attention, visual processing, and working memory
  21. Prefrontal cortex
    There are two parts the dorsolateral that is more associated with working memory, attention, focus, and solving higher order thinking tasks-- connections to the parietal, somatosensory, visual, and auditory regions

    • Ventromedial: connections to limbic system 
    • impulse, and inappropriate behavior suppression
  22. Destructive lesions to the frontal motor and premotor cortex
    • Area 4: motor cortex-- causes flaccid paralysis 
    • Area 6: premotor cortex--causes spastic paralysis
  23. Frontal lobe irritative lesions
    will cause hyper-movements--abnormal movements--more likely to start as a twitch in the finger or the lip and move its way throughout the homunculus  (Jacksonian March)

    due to ectopic foci--increased amount of sodium gated channels
  24. What is the premotor cortex
    it is an association cortex that is found in area 6 of the frontal cortex-- it can be stimulated to induce muscle movements but it will require a greater input as it has a higher threshold. Movements will be slower and will involve larger groups of muscles 
  25. What is the agranular layer
    found in the motor cortex and the premotor cortex-- they are not closely packed together 

    the motor cortex is additionally associated with betz cells that are long pyramidal cells that have long axons that extend down into the spine and initiate voluntary movement
  26. Frontal lobe--association cortex and primary cortex
    • primary motor cortex--area 4
    • premotor cortex--association region located in area 6
  27. Left sided damage of the parietal lobe
    The multimodal area here is associated with assembling sensory movements to plan movement-- apraxia-- coping a behavior will be impaired
  28. Contralateral neglect
    damage to the right side of the parietal lobe-associated with spatial attention...

    multimodal defect

    you will draw and recognize things on the right side only because left side info comes into the right side but the right side is damaged
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    Dorsal motor of vagus nerve
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    inferior vestibular nucleus
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    medial vestibular nucleus
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    trigeminal nucleus and fiber
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    inferior olivary nucleus
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    medial lemniscus
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    17. raphe nucleus
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    pyramid
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    hypoglossal
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    14. inner arcuate fibers
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    vagus nerve fibers
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    anterolateral pathway
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    nucleus ambiguus
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    posterior spinocerebellar and anterior spinocerebellar tracts
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    9. inner cerebellar penduncle
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    lateral cuneate nucleus
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    cuneate nucleus
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    • solitary tract 
    • solitary nucleus
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    3. hypoglossal nucleus
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    2. medial longitudinal fasciculus
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    fourth ventricle
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    central canal
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    solitary nucleus
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    vagus nerve fiber
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    19. arcuate fiber
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    hypoglossal fibers
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    hypoglossal nucleus
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    medial longitudinal fasciculus
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    medial lemniscus
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    Ralphe nucleus--seratonin production
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    pyramid
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    Inferior olivary nucleus
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    nucleus ambigus
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    Anterior-lateral tract (corticospinal tract)
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    • Posterior spinocerebellar tract 
    • Anterior spinocerebellar tract
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    trigeminal nuclei and tract
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    lateral cuneate nucleus
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    fasciculus cuneatus
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    nucleus cuneatus
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    grascilis nucleus
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    Dorsal motor nucleus of vagus
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  75. thalamic fasiculus
    carries information from the ansa lenticularis and the lenticular fasiculus to the thalamus
  76. Lenticular fasiculus
    carry fibers from the Gpe
  77. Ansa latericularis
    carries Gi around the medial edge
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    • third ventricle 
    • Pineal gland 
    • superior colliculi 

    red: medial geniculate (usually in very close proximity to the thalamic structures)
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    • Pink: fornix 
    • Hypothalamic sulcus
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    • underneath the pineal gland is the posterior commissure 
    • and under that is the cerebral aqueduct and under that is the fourth ventricle 
    • between the red nuclei is the VTA
    • under the LG is the optic tract 
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    Lamina terminalis-osmoreceptors outside the blood brain barrier that detect the Na+ concentration
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    • a. third ventricle
    • b. fornix 
    • c. lateral ventricle 
    • d. thalamus 
    • e. putamen 
    • f.
    • g. hippocampus 
    • h.
    • i. pons
    • j. cerebral peduncle 
    • k. substansia nigra 
    • l. hypothalamus 
    • m. caudate tail 
    • n. middle cerebellum peduncle
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  87. Hypothalamic Functions
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  89. subthalamic nucleus function
    motion
  90. Thalamic syndrome
    usually due to a lacunar stroke and this damages the thalamus-- symptoms will be contralateral loss of sensation in the arms, face, and legs. Eventually after a while they will feel constant pain here upon stimuli like touch (still on the contralateral side)
  91. thalamic reticular nucleus
    sheath of neurons that are located in the lateral region and they receive incoming and outgoing information and regulate their activity by releasing GABA
  92. lateral geniculate
    recieves information from cranial nerve 2 and sends information to the visual cortex which is located in the calcarine sulcus
  93. Medial geniculate
    receives information from the inferior colliculi and the superior olive and Sends information to the auditory cortex in the traverse temporal gyrus
  94. VPM
    gets sensory information from the trigeminal and gustatory nerves and sends it out to the somatosensory cortex 

    will be able to interpret information relating to facial sensation and taste
  95. Posterior column lemniscus pathway
    fine touch conscious, proprioception, vibration
  96. VPL
    • receives info from the spinothalamic tract, dorsal trigeminal tract, and the post column medial lemniscus
    • sends it to the somatosensory tract

    how you interpret pain, temperature, conscious proprioception

    thalamic nuclei
  97. VA and VL
    receive input from the ansa leticularis and the lenticularis fasiculis and the cerebellum (via the superior cerebellar peduncle) and send information to the motor cortex

    thalamic nucle
  98. What structures are involved in the limbic system and what is the function:
    Hippocampus, amygdala, septal area(basal forebrain), cingulate gyrus, uncus

    Connects the neocortex and the hypothalamus together
  99. Limbic system
    ELABS 

    • Emotion 
    • Long term memory 
    • Autonomic nervous sytem function 
    • Behavior modification 
    • Smell
  100. Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
    --Most common cause: alcohol (thiamine B1 deficiency) 

    Wernike: more reversible condition.. associated with visual disturbance, gait ataxia, and acute confusion 

    • Korshakoff: severe memory loss (old and new) 
    • they will make things up to fill in the gaps (confabulation)
  101. Craniopharyngioma
    tumor of the Rathke pouch (anterior pituitary) that can put pressure on the optic nerve and also on the hypothalamus causing hypothalamic syndrome

    optic chiasm can be affected too

    bitemporal hemianopsia--loss of vision in the outer fields..so inner fields are intact 

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  102. Leptin
    tells you that you are full and not hungry-- triggers satiety and inhibits hunger
  103. anterior pituitary aka
    adenohypohyis (rathke pouch)
  104. Posterior pituitary aka
    neruohypohypsis
  105. Vasopressin (ADH) is made by:
    Supraoptic hypothalamic nuclei
  106. Oxytocin is made by:
    Paraventricular hypothalamic nuclei
  107. Medial/lateral preoptic hypothalamus
    • Sexual behavior 
    • these nuclei are larger in men-- heterosexual 

    if they are smaller in men-- Homosexual
  108. Mammillary Body (hypothalamic component)
    RECALL of Aversive and pleasurable stimuli 

    not like amygdala which is more processing the aversive stimuli and denoting it as bad
  109. arcuate of the hypothalamus
    dopamine inhibition of prolactin (damage to this will cause too much prolactin to be formed)

    There is a system here that was found to be targeted for hot flashes in women
  110. ventrolmedial and dorsomedial section of the hypothalamus
    • ventromedial: satiety center 
    • dorsomedial: olfactory and fear rage aggression and aversion
  111. Lateral nucleus of the hypothalamus
    Promotes hunger and sleep wake cycle. Oxrexins are released to stimulate hunger

    • stimulation: feeding 
    • lesion: anorexia
  112. Periventricular region of the hypothalamus
    Thyroid releasing hormone--controls metabolism by regulating how much of this hormone is released
  113. Tuberomammilary bodies in the hypothalamus
    • releases histamine 
    • -involved with being awake and alert (attentive)

    -when you have benadryl (antihistamine) you feel drowsy
  114. Anterior Hypothalamic nuclei 
    Posterior Hypothalamic nuclei
    Involved in cooling-- vasodilate and sweating helps cool temperature down 

    Involved in heating.. also involved in fear aggression, analgesia (why my head burns up when I am scared)
  115. Suprachiasmatic
    releases VIP GRP and ADH 

    circadian rhythms-- feeding and thirst behaviors
  116. Lesions of the hypothalamus
    they typically affect more than one nucleus so you are more likely to have a lot of different types of symptoms
  117. Pituitary gland
    Posterior Pituitary: made from neuro-ectoderm. hypothalamic neurons make vasopressin and oxytocin which are stored in the synaptic terminals (in the posterior pituitary) and then released in the blood stream for secretion by the pituitary gland 

    Anterior Pituitary: Ectoderm derivative--there are hypothalamic releasing factors that get released into the TUBEROINFUNDIBULAR TRACT and then stimulate the pituitary gland to release whatever hormone
  118. What is the function of a hypothalamus
    it gathers information from external and internal stimuli and then responds by means of hormonal, autonomic, and COGNITIVE mechanism to maintain a level of homeostasis 

    drive related behaviors-- physiological discomfort we feel when we are not in homeostasis-- reproduction, growth, stress, and energy. Sleep, reward, pain, food intake
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    • 16. nucleus accumbens 
    • 17.septal nuclei

    above 17= septal pellucidum
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    mammilothalamic tract
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    Habenulointerpenduncular tract
  122. HSV1 is most likely to affect
    temporal lobes especially where the amygdala are located

    Kluver bucy: amygdala are destroyed and you get extreme sexual tendencies, oral fixation, absence of fear and VISUAL AGNOSIA
  123. Addictive behavior
    VTA to nucleus accumbens is a main pathway
  124. Damages to the septal nuclei
    • includes the basal forebrain and the nucleus accumbens 
    • anhedonia--lack of pleasure 

    Cholinergic pathway (basal forebrain): cognition  
  125. Damages to the amygdala would cause
    1. tamed attitude/placid--you are undisturbed, quiet, you are not provoked , you do not get angry, lack of motivation to do things (apathy) 

    2. you would not be able to discriminate aversive vs not..inappropriate response to threat
  126. Amygdala
    • Recognizes aversive situation 
    • threat in sounds and faces
    • fear anger
  127. Hipocampus function
    Deals with putting short term memory into long term and specifically also deals with declarative memory (recall for certain facts and stories) 

    Focal epilepsy-- it typically affects one side of the brain so symptoms are apparent only on the one side of the brain

    Site of adult neurogenesis
  128. Huntington disease
    • affects the striatum-- you get random unwanted movements because the inhibitory effects are suppressed 
    • but you can also get depression and memory issues 

    LATERAL NUCLEUS IS ALSO AFFECTED
  129. Bardet Biedl
    Hypothalamic dysfunction that causes you to be fat and eat a lot--issues with the ventromedial nucleus probably
  130. Kallmann Syndrome
    delayed or absent puberty because of migration defect of GNrh from site of release in the hypothalamus to the pituitary
  131. Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
    • damage to the mammilary bodies--which are associated with recall of pleasure and aversive memories 
    • Short term memory is affected first and then long term memory is affected
  132. Prader Willi:
    • Dad has to have a faulty gene for this to be passed down 
    • --causes hypothalamic dysfunction where they will gain weight and eat a lot (never feel satiated-- can be issues with the ventromedial section)
  133. MRI non-gadolinium enhancing tumor
    A dye is given and it usually stays within the brain blood vessels. But if there is necrosis or abnormal vascular proliferation from growth factors released by the tumor the dye can be released and enhance the lesion. 

    If enhanced (it appears white) indicative of a high grade tumor
  134. Why are diffuse brain tumors not staged
    because they do not have lymph nodes, they typically spread within the CNS and not outside it, the way they move you cannot completely resect the tumor
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    • Cytoplasmic inclusion-- Rabies 
    • found in the saliva of animals 

    • Have trouble swallowing 
    • Affect PNS first and then make their way to the CNS (cerebellum and brainstem are more commonly affected)
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    Intranuclear inclusion-- HSV infection
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    Hemorrhagic-- especially in temporal lobes caused by HSV

    typically associated with COWDRY bodies which are intranuclear inclusions
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    Central Pontine Myelinolysis (osmotic) 

    Any sort of hyponatremia (usually seen in alcoholics, malnutrtional cases, electrolyte instability)-- correcting to fast can cause demyelination commonly in the pons 

    (myelin stains blue)
  139. What sites are affected in Wernike
    • mammillary bodies 
    • hypothalamus
    • and periaqeuductal area
  140. SMN1 gene
    involved in preventing apoptosis 

    mutations of this can lead to ALS
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    ALS-- caused by a destruction of anterior horn nuclei and can also be caused by damage to the corticospinal tract. 

    weakness and fasiculations 

    • can be genetic WERDNIG HOFFMAN.. SMN1 gene mutation
    • or viral (polio--virus can access the motor receptors)
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    Silver stain syphillus
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    Lymohocytosis seen with viral infections
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    • Syphiliis-- loss of the posterior column of the spinal cord--loss of conscious proprioception, vibration, pressure, and fine touch 
    • "tabes dorsalis" 

    obliterative endarteritis--- concentric endothelial and fibroblastic proliferative thickening that causes occlusion of the artery
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    Central pontine myelinolysis
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    JC virus causes death of oligodendrocytes and astrocyte enlargement and proliferation 

    mainly in the white matter 

    Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (white dots everywhere within the cortex)
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    Angioma--congenital disorder often associated with (polycystic kidney disorder, ehler's danlos, and aorta narrowing diseases)

    when blood passes through it causes this protrusion 

    and if it ruptures it can cause a a subarachnoid bleed

    found in branch points of vessels
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    Spongey encephalopathy on a histology slide 

    Amyloid build up of prions--beta folded. can cause normal proteins to become mis-folded

    can be transmitted from one individual to another

    Kuru (eat brain) and cretyzfeld Jacob
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    Cryptococcus-- soap like lesions on imaging 

    india stain of CSF

    commonly found in pigeon poop and you inhale it and can cause meningitis--often affects immunocompromised people
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    Meningitis--- you can see many inflammatory cells within the meninges. If bacterial they will mostly be neutrophils if viral they will be lymphocytes
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    Purulent--think bacterial meningitis (accompanied by lower sugar and higher protein levels in the CSF)

    viral meningitis would probably appear with lymphocytosis
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    laminar infarct-- around the cortical layer-- occurs more in a linear pattern than a wedge like appearance
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    wedge shaped things are usually infarcts due to ischemic injury or perfusion defect
  154. Ambigus nucleus and dorsal motor nucleus in terms of vagus nerve
    • ambigus gets information from the heart
    • and dorsal from the thorax and the abdomen
  155. What is the difference between VPM and VPL
    VPM nucleus receive nociceptive information from the face, while neurons in the VPL nucleus receive nociceptive information from the rest of the body.
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    where is the optic radiation
    extends from lateral geniculate to the calcarine fissure
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    Identify the optic radiation:
    the tract that is coming out of the lateral geniculate (napolean's hat)
  159. Testing ocular reflexes in a comatose patient:
    Doll's eye: the eyes will move in the direction opposite to the way the head was tilt 

    Cold water to the tympanic membrane--the eyes will turn in the direction of the cold--if asymmetric or this does not occur-- abnormal
  160. what is the vestibuloccular reflex
    coordination of eye and head movements--it allows you to keep your eyes on a target despite your head moving around

    • a. vestibuspinal neck, trunck, head, and eyes 
    • b. tectospinal: superior colliculus--controls vertical gaze
  161. What are the different calcium channels
    P and N type channels--these are targeted in epileptic patients to decrease the amount of neurotransmitter released (predominant on the presynaptic) 

    T type-- to reduce the amount of calcium that can flow through and cause the spikes (more predominant on the post synaptic)
  162. SMN1A
    • one MONOgenic cause of epilepsy where a single gene is sufficient to cause epilepsy... 
    • usually polygenic causes of epilepsy 

    mutation in voltage gated channel
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    Focal seizure that is progressing to the other hemisphere
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    generalized seizure because abnormality is present in every lead
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    • Normal 
    • eye movements can cause artifact 
    • 8-12 hz
  166. Cycad seed
    • is a glutamate agonist which causes motor cell death in ALS
    • superoxide dimuatase which normally protects against against oxidative stress-if mutated can cause cell death as well
  167. Acetylcholine and dopamine overlap
    Dopamine binds to D2 and decreases the release of Acetylcholine. BUT in parkinson's disease-- there is no dopamine so there is more ACH released 

    to fix this imbalance-- muscurinic antagonists (scolpamine, atropine, ipra)
  168. What is the on and off phenomena
    it is seen in parkinsons when the Ldopa has good effect for some time and after some time it doesnt but then after some time it has an effect again 

    • this is unusual bc parkinson is a progressive disease and gets worse as more neurons die 
    • eventually there shouldn't be terminals left to pick up the dopa and convert it to dopamine
  169. What are the symptoms of Levodopa
    • Lethargy 
    • Euphoria 
    • Vomit (other GI disturbances) 
    • Orthostatic hypotension and hypertensive crisis especially when used with MAO inhibitors
    • Delusions
    • On and off phenomena 
    • Priapism 
    • Athetosis
  170. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures(PNES)
    • usually occurs in front of an audience 
    • history of drug use, psychotic 

    • resist eye opening 
    • waxing and waning 
    • pelvic thrusting 
    • asynchronous head movements 

    No response to AEDs
  171. Safer AED during pregnancy:
    Levetiracetam and Lamotrigine
  172. Most teratogenic AEDs:
    Valproate, PB
  173. Phenobarbital is contraindicated with
    porphyria
  174. Tetrabenazine, valbenazine
    inhibits VMAT... monamine reuptake so dopamine is in the cleft for longer and has greater potential for being degraded.... 

    in huntingtons (caudate is affected) gaba production is decreased and dopamine increases 

    in parkinsons- the substansia nigra is affected.. dopamine is decreased and Ach is increased
  175. Riluzole
    hepatic injury
  176. Amantidine
    Parkinsons-- blocks NMDA receptors
  177. Memantine
    Alzhemiers medication targeted at NMDA receptors (decreased glutamate activity)
  178. Muscarinic antagonist (M1-selective)
    • Benz 
    • Trihex 

    • (Benz symbol has 3 triangles) 
    • "Dont sleep if you want a mercedes"
  179. COMT inhibitor
    capone 

    tolcapone is able to cross the BBB and inhibit COMT from degrading dopamine
  180. Dopamine agonists
    left often used for Parkinsons because it can cause vascular damage 

    • Bro nonselective 
    • Roti nonselective
    • Apo --nonselective 
    • Prami...D2 agonist
    • Ropi..D2 agonist 

    D2 binding typically causes decreased Ach release
  181. Levetiracetam side effects
    sedation
  182. Tigabine
    inhibits gaba T enzyme so gaba is not degraded 

    also prevents glutamate receptors (AMPA and Kainate from functioning)
  183. Benzodiampems and Barbituates
    "clona" "pams" : benzos: gaba A agonist cause influx of chlorine causing inhibition of the neuron 

    barbituates: do the same thing
  184. Gabapentin
    binds to L Calcium receptor  prevents the release of gabpentin 

    side effect: sedation
  185. Glutamate antagonist
    • leveacetams
    • and brigacetams
  186. Valproic acid
    Sodium and T-type calcium channel blocker; GABA-T inhibitor; HDAC inhibitor
  187. Carbazempine and Lacosamide
    Carb: Ca T receptor inhibitor and Na channel blocker

    Lacoamide: carbonic anhydrase inhibtior and Na channel blocker
  188. Topirmate and Felmate
    • they are both sodium channel blockers and also can block glutamate receptors
    • first one blocks AMPA and kainate 
    • second one does NMDA

    "Topi fel..oh No"
  189. Sodium channel blockers
    Rufiamdie Zoniasmide Phenytoin Lamotrigine
  190. Carbamezepine and Oxcarbazepine
    • SIADH, low Na
    • SJS
  191. what are the external cues that can influence the circadian rhythms called
    zeitgebers--light, social, temperature
  192. Circadian Rhythms
    endogenous-- the timing of hormones and certain physiological changes occur every 24 hours 

    internal clocks can operate independently, but are influenced by external cues (entrainment-allows the internal clocks to adjust their timing to match changes in the external environment, such as shifts in the light-dark cycle. However, even in the absence of entraining cues, the internal clocks continue to generate rhythmic signals.
  193. Sleep apnea
    • a. obstructive--nrem or rem
    •     muscle weakness-- contraction of upper respiratory muscles and diaphragm does not occur which causes collapse of the oralpharynx-- causing snoring and hypoxia--this usually induces wake 

    B. central--damage to the brainstem
  194. Restless leg syndrome
    Iron deficiency associated with dopamine synthesis--can cause discomfort in legs that causes the urge to move them and can cause disruption in sleep
  195. REM characteristics
    • you start appearing as if awake 
    • rapid eye movements 
    • some more sympathetic tone 
    • ATONIA 

    ERECTION DURING NIGHT-- if this is not happening seek cardiology support there may be a narrowing of artery 
  196. Hormones and fluctuanaance patterns with sleep and wakefulness
    Cortisol and Thyroid stimulating hormone decrease during sleep, rise upon awakening

    Growth hormone, prolactin and LH secretion increases at night/sleep

    Melatonin increases at night/sleep and is produced until sunlight cues its decrease
  197. REM BEHAVIOR DISORDER
    night terrors where they are in significant danger and to save themselves they will hurt themselves because there is NO ATONIA
  198. What are REM sleep abnormalities
    • Nightmares
    • Sleep paralysis 
    • and REM behavior disorder
  199. What are three sleeping conditions associated with Stage 3 sleep
    Bed wetting-- has to do with genetic malformations in the innervation of the bladder 

    Somnamulism-- sleep walking 

    Night terrors: wake up screaming and crying and are inconsolable and have no memory of doing this
  200. Narcolepsy
    • irresistible urge to fall asleep 
    • defect in orexin/hypocretin 

    Cataplexy (REM)/atonia-- narcolepsy 

    atonia here is aware
  201. insomnia
    cannot sleep-- but they do not just randomly fall asleep everywhere like in narcolepsy 

    primary: no direct link to a medical condition--many psychotic people have this because they are always so stressed

    secondary: there is a medical link
  202. dorsal respiratory nucleus and ventral respiratory group
    • dorsal: inspiration
    • ventral: inspiration and expiration
  203. What is an EEG?
    Measures brain activity of the superior cortical region (mainly the pyramidal cells cause they are usually the outer most cell.)

    Conductance-- the ions will also be released from an action potential, repel , and disperse 

    when they disperse= the difference in voltage that is measured 


    Normal EEG does not mean no abnormalities because it is dependent on a specific time

    • odd numbers: left 
    • even numbers: right 
    • the read is organized with one hemisphere on the top and the other hemisphere at the bottom
  204. When is surgery considered in seizure treatment?
    When the patient is placed on two medications, but still has convulsing activity 

    surgery if the location allows for it (temporal lobe, corpus collusm) 

    if in motor, then you may have to consider neruostimulation  devices
  205. Polysomnography:
    • electrodes for each eye
    • muscles to see the contraction scalp to measure electrical activity of the brain
  206. Why do we sleep?
    • Theories: significant amount of waste/toxins build up in the brain during the day 
    • when we sleep there is increased CSF flow to remove these waste products

    short term to long term memory occurs in our sleep
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    olfactory bulb
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    typical absence seizure presentation--spike wave and like about 3 of them in a second

    a eeg where all the channels look the same is NOT normal it should be different
  210. What type of necrosis is seen in the brain?
    Following an ischemic injury to the brain, liquefactive necrosis is more common--will be accompanied by inflammation--messy death of cells.
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    • reactive Gliosis after CNS injury like stroke (infarction)
    • astrocytes and other glial cells go to the site of injury and proliferate and release material to form a glial cell. This scar prevents regeneration of function in the area now-- afunctional
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    Right hemisphere stroke: SECONDARY TO ATHEROSCLEROSIS 

    embolic strokes are more hemorrhagic-- they are smaller breaks that usually go and settle in multi-flow regions or in the veins (appear red) as opposed to blanch or white (thrombolic)
  213. neurosyphilis can lead to ....
    dementia because of the neuronal loss 

    obliterative endarteritis: blood vessels are occluded with a lot of WBC in and around the vessel especially PLASMA CELLS 
  214. What causes the posterior column degeneration that is seen in tertiary syphilis
    There is inflammation of the dorsal nerve roots that eventually cause degradation of the posterior column
  215. meningitis and waterhouse syndrome
    N. meningititis especially will release toxins that cause damage to the blood vessels and can cause adrenal glands to bleed out (shock--hypotension and tachycardia)
  216. What is the most common meningitis causing agent:
    N meningitis--gram negative diplococci 

    affects the subarachnoid
  217. global perfusion
    Shock--decreased blood pressure, heart rate is increased 

    going to affect all the arteries (watershed areas will be more commonly affected because two blood supplies)

    • hippocampus 
    • purkinje cells 
    • cortical neurons (3 and 5)

    "Water purk where there are 3-5 hippos"
  218. Rabies is a XXXX virus
    mrna
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    superior cerebellar peduncle
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    vestibulocerebellar tract
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    • 28. superior vestibular nucleus 
    • 26. lateral vestibular nucleus
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    anterior spinocerebellar tract
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    • facial nerve 7-- expressions 
    • and facial nerve tract thick round part=genu
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    tegmental tract
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    anterolateral (spinothalamic) tract
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    lateral lemniscus
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    trigeminal nucleus and tract
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    solitary nucleus-- visceral (7, 9, 10)
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    inferior cerebellar peduncle
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    middle cerebellum peduncle
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    Cranial nerve 6: abducens nuclei and tract
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    vermis of cerebellum
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    fourth ventricle
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    MLF
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    ralphe nuclei
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    medial lemniscus
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    trapezoid body
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    pontocerebellar tract
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    pontine nuclei
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    corticospinal tract
  241. Mutations in diffuse brain cancers
    IDH and ATXR are mutated in Atrocytomas... IDH mutated has a better prognosis 

    in glioblastomas IDH is normal and TERT is mutated causing the abnormal telomere lengthening
  242. Ganglioglioma
    very similar to pilocystic-- rosenthal fibers are more circular rather than rod like 

    associated with seizures (temporal lobe affected)
  243. What is the most common malignant cancer in children
    medulloblastoma
  244. Posterior fossa
    common sites of cancer for pilocytic and medulloblastoma
  245. Medulloblastoma
    • cancer of cells in the cerebellum 
    • can spread downwards
    • rosette--small blue cells around the pink space
  246. Synaptophysin
    marker that is positive in medulloblastoma
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    oligodendroglioma-- notice the "O" cells: there is a lot of white space around the nucleus... 

    cell affected is not oligodendrocytes
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    mitotic figure--chromatin spreading apart
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    mitotic figures--close together and look very similar
  250. Meningioma
    is more common in young adult females and imaging will show a mass hanging off the dura but it will not invade the cortex
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    choroid plexus benign cancer-- they are still finely lined
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    choroid plexus carcinoma--because the cells are stacking up on top of each other and they are supposed to be single layer 

    this can cause blockage and lead to hydrocephalus
  253. What are risk factors for meningioma
    • Neurofibroma 2 
    • and radiation typically from prior cancer removal (LICE removal) 

    these tumors grow faster around progesterone but can grow without it as well
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    associated with syncytial meningioma
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    Describe the disease associated with this histology?
    Transitional/mixed meningioma-a very slow growing arachnoidal cell cancer. Commonly associated with whorl bodies and psomma 

    there is another type--syncytial (mengiothelial) cancer: these are more commonly associated with pseudonuclear inclusions--they have white spots within their nucleus
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    whorl bodies--commonly seen in transitional/mixed meningioma
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    Pssoma bodies--calcium deposits commonly seen in meningioma transitional type
  258. ALS proteinopathies
    • TDP
    • but eye movements and sphincters are spared
  259. Treatement for ALS
    • Riluzole--antiglutmate
    • Radicava--oxygen radical scavenging 
    • Relyvrio--protection against mitochondria and er dysfx
  260. What can influence the progression of amyloid disease
    Certain viruses can cause the plaques to accumulate faster (HSV)

    microglial activation can be impaired so they don't clear up the plaques but the increased inflammation can cause greater production of and greater neuronal death
  261. Clinical findings in CJD
    Gold standard: biopsy and you will see spongey encephalopathy 

    EEG will show sharp waves and MRI will show basal ganglia hyperdensity 

    thats why the disease is associated with ataxia
  262. Levanemab
    • used in Alzheimers disease-- correlated with edema and brain bleeds so must have MRI prior to infusion
    • (1st infusion, 5th, 7th, and 14th)
  263. What drugs are there to treat Alzheimers
    Done, Gala, stigmine--AchE antagonist 

    • Glutamate antagonist 
    • Levanemab and Donanemab
  264. Wedge like infarcts most commonly caused by
    hyperlipidemia and smoking
  265. Small lacunar strokes leading cause
    DM and then HTN
  266. Phenytoin side effects
    causes SJS and gingival thickening and bone sx
  267. pars pilicata
    ciliary body of the eye muscles that produce the aqueous fluid for the chamers 

    and pas plana has the zonules
  268. what mechanisms allow the cornea to be transparent
    it has an endothelial cell that transports fluid out via active transport
  269. Cornea:
    it is coated by a thin lipid layer (slows evaporation), thick aqueous layer (antibacterial, supplies o2, and washes away the debris), and the mucin layer-- decreases surface tension 

    lacrimal gland produces the tears and removed by the lacrimal sac and duct near the nose (there is a punctum (hole that allows the fluid to be drained)
  270. Muller's muscle
    sympathetically innervated--controls the upper eyelid
  271. zeiss moll meibomian
    oil glands
  272. goblet glands
    mucous
  273. lacrimal gland
    tears
  274. What muscles close and open the eye?
    The orbitcularis has two parts-- orbit (forceful voluntary contraction-- when there is bright light something gets stuck in your eye etc)....involves both the upper and lower eyelid 

    palpebral: gentle closing.. voluntary and involuntary closing


    the levator--originating in the apex will cause the eyes to open
  275. inferior oblique muscle
    • goes up and in 
    • originates in the maxillary muscle
  276. where does superior oblique originate and what direction does in go in
    down and in  (opposite of what you would expect).. superior rectus goes up and out 

    it originates from the sphenoid
  277. where do the superior, inferior, lateral, and medial rectus muscles originate
    zinn
  278. What is the bony orbit
    • eye socket made up of 7 bones 
    • sphenoid- strongest 
    • ethmoid-weakest (paper thin)
  279. Ependyml cancer
    • not a diffuse 
    • perivascular rosette
  280. Most common symptoms seen in AD?
    • visual and verbal
    • mood, motor, behavior, circadian rythtm
  281. What are the cognitive disorders associated with TAU?
    • Picks--frontal lobe 
    • PSP--supranuclear upgaze palsy
    • CDB
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    example of contralateral neglect: had to cross out all the circles that had gaps in them... he is able to accurately do that if the gap is on the right side but not if its on the left side
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