Answers From Qbank Neuro

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T or F? Meningiomas often incite an osteoblastic reaction in the overlying cranial bones

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True

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Negri bodies?

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Rabies

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T or F? Glioblastoma is an astrocytoma

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True

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Which tumor can cause a butterfly lesion crossing between the cerebral hemispheres?

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Glioblastoma multiforme

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Tumor with whorls of cells and scattered psammoma bodies..

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Meningioma

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VDRL?

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Syphilis

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage and/or seizures involving the cerebral hemispheres

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AV malformation

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Tuberous sclerosis?

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Neurocutaneous disorder - tubers (hamartomas in the brain, skin, pancreas, and cardiac rhabdomyomas

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Cerebellar angiomas associated with...

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von Hippel-Lindau

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Nevus flammeus associated with..?

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Sturge-Weber (port-wine nevus_

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T or F? Intermittently raised pressure hydrocephalus classically causes memory loss, urinary incontinence, and gait abnormalities

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True

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Failure of upward gaze?

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Pinealoma

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Bilateral loss of pain and temp sensation in the upper extremities - what malformation?

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Arnold-Chiari --> syringomyelia

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The atrophy in Pick's disease affects which lobes?

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Frontal, temporal

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Classic triad of Parkinson's

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Tremors, rigidity, and akinesia

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Anterograde amnesia and confabulation

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Korsakoff syndrome

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Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma

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Tuberous sclerosis

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Describe primary CNS lymphoma lesions in AIDS patients?

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Multicentric, may involve leptomeninges

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T or f? Friedreich's ataxia is related to atrophy of the spinal cord.

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True

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Cystic brain lesion filled with dark, oily fluid...

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Craniopharyngioma

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Half of all intraparenchymal hemorrhages involve the...

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Basal ganglia and internal capsule

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Demyelination of the......can follow overly rapid correction of severe hyponatremia?

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central ponsq

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Arnold-Chiari type 2?

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More severe, cerebellar vermis and medulla are displaced through the foramen magnum

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Elongated intracytoplasmic neuronal inclusions

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Negri bodies --> rabies

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Intracytoplasmic spherules composed of paired helical filaments?

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Pick bodies

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Multinucleated giant cells are typical in which viral encephalitis?

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HIV encephalitis

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Fried egg cells in a brain tumor?

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Oligodendroglioma

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Histologic progression of MS

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1. Acute - Lymphohistiocytic infiltration and myelin breakdown
2. Hyperplastic gliosis (astrocytosis) - GEMISTOCYTES

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Brain tumor in kids with evidence of both neuronal and glial differentiation?

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Medulloblastoma

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Associate neurofibromas with...?

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Neurofibromatosis type 1

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Associate meningiomas with...?

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Breast cancer, high estrogen states

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Associate acoustic neuromas with...?

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Neurofibromatosis type II

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definition of papilledema?

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Swelling of the optic disk usually due to increased ICP

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How do Abscesses look on CT?

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White rings around black low-attenuation centers in the brain...?

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What could explain a catastrophic hemorrhage in an Alzheimer's patient?

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Amyloid angiopathy

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Corkscrew-shaped eosinophilic fibers

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Rosenthal fibers - seen in pilocytic astrocytoma, reactive gliosis

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Paired helical filaments in neurofibrillary tangles are due to...?

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Abnormal phosphorylation of tau

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Retinal angioma in which syndrome?

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von Hippel Lindau

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This brain tumor shows necrosis and hemorrhage on biopsy...

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Glioblastoma multiforme

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Location of glioblastoma in adults? Kids?

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Adults - cerebral cortex
Kids - Brainstem

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Ki-67

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nuclear factor - used to determine neoplastic replicative activty

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HSV encephalitis affects which parts of the brain?

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Lower portions of cerebral cortex --> temporal lobes and base of the frontal lobes

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chorda tympani branch of VII controls salivation from...?

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submandibular and sublingual glands

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Which nerve runs closest (laterally) to the pituitary?

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Abducens

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Which nerve lies in the tonsillar fossa?

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Glossopharyngeal

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Which cranial nerves emerge from the cerebellopontine angle?

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Facial and vestibulocochlear

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Which nerve moves the hyoid bone anteriorly to open the pharynx?

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C1 - ansa cervicalis

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Olfactory bulb sends axons to...?

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Pyriform cortex

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Median nerve passes through which muscle after the elbow?

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Pronator teres

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Satiety center?

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Ventromedial nucleus

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Locked-in syndrome is caused by a lesion in...

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the pons (ventral)

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What passes through the greater sciatic foramen?

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Superior gluteal nerve (above the piriformis) and the sciatic nerve (below the piriformis

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Parinaud's syndrome

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Affects vertical gaze center - dorsal midbrain (superior colliculi)

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Which nerve is required to make the 'kuh' sound?

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Vagus - raises the palate

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Nail of the index finger is innervated by...?

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Median nerve

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chemoreceptor trigger zone - located where?

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floor of 4th ventricle

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Innervation from upper part of posterior pharynx? Lower part?

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IX
X

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Myasthenia gravis mechanism

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Autoimmune damage to the acetylcholine receptor in the NMJ

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CMV lab work

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India ink
Urease positive

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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

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Rare late complication of measles infection at an early age

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Which two amoeba have a propensity for causing meningoencephalitis?

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Naegleria fowleri and Acanthamoeba

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Neuroepithelial cells?

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Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes (both derived from glioblasts)

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Chlamydia induced blindness

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Corneal infection, then scarring

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Ventriular-peritoneal shunt infection?

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Staph epidermidis

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Mississippi river bed yeast

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Crypto

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Embolization from infective endocarditis typically causes abscesses in which lobe?

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Parietal

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Most likely cause of active toxo infection?

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Reactivation of latent infection

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neostigmine mechanism of action?

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carbamylation of AChesterase

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Primidone has a cross-sensitivity to...?

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Phenobarbital

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OD on TCAs could cause/

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Lethal arrhythmias

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Immediate lowering of intraocular pressure?

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Acetazolamide

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Phenelzine?

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MAO inhibitor

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Trihexyphenidyl?

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Anti-muscarinic used in Parkinson's

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HTN emergency?

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>130 mm HG DIASTOLIC pressure

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Mechanism of sumatriptan?

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Serotonin agonist

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Reinforcing effects of ampethamines caused by?

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Dopamine release

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Which antidepressant is contraindicated in patients with bulimia or anorexia?

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Bupropion

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Neorucyticercosis?

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Taenia solium infection (cysts are involved in the CNS)...most common parasitic infection of the CNS... most frequently encountered in Mexico, Southeast Asia, etc.

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Strep agalactiae?

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Group B strep

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Alar plate forms what?

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dorsal spinal cord

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Bilateral acoustic neuromas are associated with...?

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Neurofibromatosis type II --> 22qn (all the 2's...bi-lateral, nfm type 2, 22q, etc)

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Perivenous microglial involvement with demyelination...?

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Post-infectious (ie measles) encephalomyelitis

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encysted bradyzoites?

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toxoplasmosis

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Anterolateral part of the spinal cord affects which muscle group?

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Distal extensors