Pd Ii Pearls

Front 1

what nerve is most likely damaged if you have weakness and tingleing at the base of thumb and pointer finger?

Back 1

median nerve palsy

Front 2

time frame for R.I.N.D.

Back 2

48-72 hours

Front 3

time frame for T.I.A.

Back 3

within 24 hours

Front 4

what is the most common cause of dementia?

Back 4

alzheimer's

Front 5

a sudden onset of weakness and numbness or paralysis affecting arms/legs with difficulty speaking is best termed?

Back 5

a brain attack

Front 6

an acute polyneuropathy commonly following an infectious process?

Back 6

guillan barre

Front 7

auditory and visual hallucinations are manifestations of

Back 7

paranoid schitzo

Front 8

which tract is responsible for pain, temp, vibration, tactile discrimination to the brainstem?

Back 8

spinal thalamic tract

Front 9

what is the levelof consciousness with a p: disturbance of consciousness characterized by impaired ability to think clearly, and to perceive, respond to and remember current stimuli; also disorientation

Back 9

confusion

Front 10

what is the level of consciousness if: p is in a state of disturbed consciousness with motor restlessness, transient hallucinations, di9sroientation and sometimes delusions?

Back 10

Delirium

Front 11

what is the level of consciousness of a patient with a disorder of decreased alertness with associated psychomotor retardation?

Back 11

obtundation

Front 12

a stae in chich the person is notunconscious but exhibits little or no spontaneous activity?

Back 12

STUPOR

Front 13

a state of being unarousable and unresponsive to external stimuli or internal needs

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coma

Front 14

loss of movement

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paralysis

Front 15

implying weakness or incomplete loss of muscle finction

Back 15

paresis

Front 16

this condition results from the destruction of pyramidial UMN innervation of one limb

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monoparesis

Front 17

both limbs on one side are numb/lacking complete muscle function

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hemiparesis or hemiplegia

Front 18

both upper or both lower limbs are numb/weak

Back 18

paraplegia, paraparesis

Front 19

this lesion involves the motor cortex, internal capsule, or other brain structures through which the corticospinal tract go through?

Back 19

upper motorneuron lesion

Front 20

in an upper motorneuron lesion involving injury to the L1 level or above, what happens?

Back 20

an immediate, profound weakness and loss of fine, skilled voluntary lower limb mvmt, reduced bowel and bladder control, and diminished sexual functioning, followed by an exaggeration of muscle tone

Front 21

what causes unregulated reflex activity, increased muscle tone and spastic paralysis?

Back 21

upper motor neuron lesions that interrupt communication between the spinal cord reflexes and higher brain centers

Front 22

what causes a loss of reflex activity, decreased or absent muscle tone and flaccid paralysis

Back 22

lower motor neuron lesions that interrupt comm. between the muscle and the spinal cord reflex

Front 23

what are some things that can contribute to dementia?

Back 23

D rugs: anti-psychotics
E ndocrine: hypothyroid,DM
M etabolic encephalopathy
E ncephalitis: viral causes
N utritional: b12, pern anem.
T rauma
I infections: BSE, JCU, CJD
A rterial

Front 24

acute onset, most common form is drug induced,

Back 24

delirium

Front 25

a group of uncommon neurodegenerative disorders char4acterized by rapidly progressive dementia, they appear to result from accumulation of a cellular protein

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Prion Diseases

Front 26

MC prion disease, with the triad of 1.rapidly progressing dementia, 2.myoclous, 3.focal neurologic deficits

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creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Front 27

an autoimmune, rapidly progressive paralysis, often ascending, areflexia, increased CSF protein

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guillain-barre>

Front 28

MC motor neuron disease in adults?

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ALS: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Front 29

subacute to chronic progressive weakness, UMN S/S, stiffness, spasticity, clumsiness, hyperactive tendon reflexes, + babinski's, LMN dysfunction, preservation of extraocular muscle mvmnts and bladder

Back 29

ALS; lou gerig's

Front 30

kaiser-fleisher ring is indicitive of what disease?

Back 30

Wilson's

Front 31

this disease produces a deficit in copper metabolism and causes a deposit of a copper colored ring around the iris of the eye?

Back 31

Wilson's disease

Front 32

what are some causes of EPS (extra parametal symptoms) of the basal ganglia?

Back 32

seizures, drugs, trauma

Front 33

what cells make up the brain barrier?

Back 33

astrocytes: form tight junctions

Front 34

collection of subcortical nuclei?

Back 34

basal ganglia

Front 35

what is the fluid filled space that surrounds the basal ganglia?

Back 35

arachnoid villi

Front 36

what is the name of the enlarged area on the ventral surface of the pons that receives info from all parts of the cerebral cortex?

Back 36

the pontine nuclei

Front 37

one of the main sites of reabsorbtion of CSF in the superior sagittal sinus?

Back 37

arachnoid villi

Front 38

tiny reddish masses of specialized capillaries from the pia matter that project into the ventricles are called?

Back 38

choroid plexus

Front 39

triad for Horner's:

Back 39

ptosis
anhydriasis
mydriasis

Front 40

lesions to the ventral surface of the caudal medulla results in what syndrome?

Back 40

syndrome of alternating hypoglossal hemiplegia

Front 41

this autoimmune disease is caused by IgG auto-antibody, presents with spherocyts on peripheral blood smear and + coombs test?

Back 41

autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia

Front 42

helmet-like shaped RBC's

Back 42

shistocytes

Front 43

stroke that involves R hemisphere?

Back 43

neglect stroke

Front 44

tics or movement disorders caused by a toxicity of a drug like thorazine

Back 44

dystonias

Front 45

a movement disorder with a "rocking-like" presentation, due to med toxicity

Back 45

acathesis

Front 46

an occlusion of the MCA or ACA will cause

Back 46

paraplegia or paraparesis