Take a Picture
It's Electric
My Head Hurts
Potent Potables
I Can't Remember
100
The most sensitive MRI sequence to determine subarachnoid hemorrhage
FLAIR
100
Acetylcholine binds this portion of the nicotinic receptor
Alpha (2 molecules)
100
Brainstem micturition center is located here
Pons
100
Number 1 is....
ophthalmic artery
100
The nucleus accumbens is an experimental target for DBS in this condition
Substance abuse disorder
200
11 y/o patient with seizures
Tuberous Sclerosis
200
This toxin blocks voltage gated Na+ channels
Tetrodotoxin
200
Most common cause of subarachnoid hemorrhage in young patients
Trauma
200
A patient with SAH who has a headache and nuchal rigidity has a Hunt Hess score of?
H-H 2
200
Neurofibrillary tangles are intra or extracellular?
Intracellular
300
What phase would this finding appear on conventional angiogram?
Venous Phase
300
This wave of BAERs represents the cochlear nerve activation
Wave I
300
What key symptoms in the history would you expect this 16 y/o patient to have?
fever, vomiting, lethargy, seizures, nuchal rigidity
300
Cholera toxin inhibits deactivation of this type of cell membrane receptor
Ga
300
Lewy bodes are composed of these protein(s)
alpha-synuclein, ubiquitin
400
Blood test that may help confirm the diagnosis
CBC with diff, Eosinophil count
400
This enzyme is the rate limiting step in the TCA cycle
Isocitrate dehydrogenase
400
The most common location of an epidermoid cyst
CPA
400
What is the mechanism of a Jefferson Fracture?
Axial loading (compression)
400
Dementia, ataxia, incontinence, abnormal eye movements
Progressive supranuclear palsy (penguin sign, midbrain atrophy)
500
Type 1 diastematomyelia
500
During a NCS, this wave disappears with supramaximal stimulus
H wave
500
Patient presents for eval concerning worsening headaches. Shunt is patent. What would you expect this patient's opening pressure on LP to be?
High (slit ventricles)
500
Trauma patient with poor exam and basal SAH on CT but otherwise unremarkable should raise suspicion for this condition
atlanto-occipital dislocation
500
Hypertension, basal ganglia hemorrhage (Charcot aneurysm)