Neuro Cards

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Newborn bacterial meningitis

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Group B strep
E. coli

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Older infants and children bacterial meningitis

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Haemophilus influenzae

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Young adult bacterial meningitis

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neisseria meningitidis (vaccine available)

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older adults bacterial meningitis

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S. pneumoniae

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meningitis is inflammation of?

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pia-arachnoid of brain, spinal cord or both

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anterior spinal arter supplies...?

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2/3 anterior spinal cord
and in the medulla supplies the pyramid, medial lemniscus and CN XII root fibers

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Third nerve palsy results from?

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PCA aneurysm (second most common in circle of Willis)

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Artery that supplies Broca's and Wernicke's areas

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middle cerebral

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failure of the anterior neuropore to close results in?

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anencephaly

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remnants of rathke's pouch can give rise to a congenital cystic tumor known as?

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craniopharyngioma

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most common cause of mental retardation

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fetal alcohol syndrome

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cerebellomedullary malformation in which the caudal vermis, cerebellar tonsils and medulla herniate through the foramen magnum

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arnold chiari syndrome

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hydrocephalus resulting from failure of the foramina of luschka and magendie to open

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dandy walker syndrome

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What drug inhibits azonal transport?

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colchicine

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What is the mechanism of colchicine and what does it affect?

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depolymerizes microtubules
inhibits axonal transport

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Fast anterograde axonal transport is mediated by?

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kinesin

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Fast retrograde transport is mediated by

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neurotubules and dynein (this is how rabies, etc move up nerves)

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negri bodies are pathognomonic of?

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rabies

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hirano bodies are?

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intraneural eosinophilic rod like inclusions found in hippocampus of Alzheimer's disease

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Spinal accessory nucleus levels

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C1-C6

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Parasympathetic nucleus

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S2-S4

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ankle jerk reflex
(achilles reflex)

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S1 or S2
gastrocnemius

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knee jerk

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L2/L4
quadriceps

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biceps

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C5/6

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triceps

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C7/8

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dorsal column - medial lemniscus mediate?

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tactile discrimination, vibration sensation, form recognition, conscious proprioception

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Dorsal column-medial lemniscus

above sensory decussation ________ loss
in the spinal cord there is ______ loss

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above contralateral
spinal cord ipsilateral

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function of lateral spinothalamic tract

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pain and temperature

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transection of the lateral spinothalamic tract

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contralateral loss of pain and temperature below lesion

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function of lateral corticospinal tract

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mediates voluntary skilled motor activity primarily upper limbs
not myelinated until end of second year Babinski's sign

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interuption of the hypothalamospinal tract at any level results in?

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ipsilateral Horner's syndrome

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LMN signs

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flaccid paralysis, areflexia, atrophy, fasciculations, fibrillations

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UMN signs

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spastic paresis with pyramidal signs

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ALS would give?

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UMN and LMN signs with NO sensory loss

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Romberg sign

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dorsal column ataxia seen in tabes dorsalis (neurosyphilis)

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opthalmic branch of trigeminal nerve exits through and provides what type of information

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superior orbital fissure
GSA

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maxillary branch of trigeminal nerve exits through _______ and provides what type of information?

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foramen rotundum
GSA

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mandibular branch of trigeminal nerve exits through ________ and provides what type of information

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foramen ovale
GSA and SVE (motor to muscles of mastication, mylohyoid, anterior belly of digrastric, tensores tympani and veli palatini)

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The only location where an artery travels through a venous space

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cavernous sinus

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cavernous sinus syndrome can be caused by pituitary adenomas which results in opthalmoplegia. What is this?

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compression of oculomotor nerve (CNIII), trochlear (CN IV), abducens (CN VI), opthalmic (V1), maxillary (V2)

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caloric nystagmus directions for cold and warm water

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cold water - opposite
warrm water - same
"COWS"

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denervation of the levator palpebrae muscles resluts in?

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ptosis

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denervation of the extraocular muscles (innervated by CNIII)?

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eye looks down and out