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Which of the following is insensitive to pain?
A. venous sinus B. cerebral arteries C. dura matter D. brain tissue |
D.
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What are the three primary headaches?
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1. migrane
2. tnesion 3. cluster |
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Pain involving which three cranial nerves can be localized by patients?
Pain involving which kind of nerves can not be localized by patients? |
1. able to localize: CN V, IX, and X.
2. not able to localize: cervical nerve roots, external carotid. |
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Pain from the dural vessels sends majority of the fibers through which cranial nerve? and what nucleus in the brain stem(pons) are involved?
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Through CNV to trigeminal ganglia.
Dorsal raphe nucleus, locus cerulus, and superior salivary nucleus are involved in the relay. *There is also a reflec loop of CNV and CNVII. |
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What is familial hemiplegic migrane?
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Chromosome 1 or 19 defect in abnormal K+ or Ca2+ channelopathy resulting in an altered threshold of excitability of certain reticular formation cells.
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Painless constriction of cerebral arteries may cause what type of headache?
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complicated migraine: due to transient or permenant neurologic deficits.
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