Central Nervous System
Another name for this condition is "water on the brain"
What is hydrocephalus?
The most common cause of peripheral neuropathy.
This heart rhythm is the most common cause for cardioembolic stroke.
What is A. Fib?
This condition has three main features resting/pill rolling tremor, rigidity, and bradykinesia.
What is Parkinsons disease?
This is the most common form of muscular dystrophy.
What is Duchene's muscular dystrophy?
This type of tumor arises from the meninges.
What is a meningioma?
A common condition that causes numbness in the thumb, index, middle, finger and the radial side of the ring finger with loss of grip strength.
What is carpal tunnel?
The most common presenting symptom of a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
What is the patient stating, "this is the worst headache of my life?"
This type of dementia is the most common in elderly adults and has characteristic amyloid plaque development.
What is alzheimer's?
This is a disorder that is caused by antibody development at the neuromuscular junction.
What is myasthenia gravis?
This condition spreads in young adults living in shared living spaces such as dormatories and is vaccine preventatable.
What is Neisseria meningitidis?
This is a type of ascending paralysis that may occur after a campylobacter GI illness.
What is AIDP/Guillian-Barre?
The area in the brain that allows for back up flow between the anterior and posterior circulation.
What is the circle of willis?
This is an incurable condition caused by CAG repeats that leads to choreiform movements, memory impairment, and behavioral/mood changes.
What is Huntington's?
You can pass this to infants by feeding them honey before 12 months old.
What is botulinum?
The term used to represent rebound injury in a concussion.
What is countercoup?
A bedside test commonly performed to look for a lumbar radiculopathy.
What is the straight leg raise.
Type of brain hemorrhage that typically occurs due to long-term uncontrolled hypertension.
What is an intracerebral hemorrhage?
Condition also known as Pick's disease with notable loss of inhibitions/personality changes and at times loss of speech. Bruce Willis may have had a form of this neurodegerative condition.
What is frontotemporal dementia?
This neurologic disorder has abnormal MRI findings and may present in a relapsing or progressive course.
What is multiple sclerosis?
A stroke in this artery can cause "locked in syndrome", a rare type of ischemic infarct that causes the patient to lose all motor control including control of speech but maintain awareness.
What is the basilar artery?
What is cauda equina syndrome?
Stroke in this area will limit ability to understand language and varies based on if the person is right or left-handed.
What is Wernicke's area — the posterior portion of the superior temporal gyrus (pSTG) in the dominant (usually left) hemisphere?
This condition is notable for REM sleep impairment, hallucinations early in the course of the disorder before the development of memory and movement impairment. Unfortunately, this is what Robin Williams was diagnosed with.
What is lewy body dementia?
What are automatisms?