Headaches/ Sleep
This drug is used to treat SUNCT.
What is Lamotrigine?
This drug inhibits COMT in the periphery but NOT in the CNS.
What is entacapone?
These drugs are safer AEDs during pregnancy. (one is sufficient).
What are lamotrigine and levetiracetam?
The yellow deposits beneath the retinal pigment epithelium in dry age-related macular degeneration.
What is drusen?
Damage to this hypothalamic nucleus leads to hyperplasia and obesity.
What is the ventromedial nucleus?
This condition features cataplexy and/or low levels of hypocretin 1 (orexin A) in the CSF.
What is Type I Narcolepsy?
This drug has adverse effects including orthostatic hypotension, dyskinesias, and hallucinations.
What is Levodopa?
A college student just had a focal seizure that lasted for 12 minutes. Emergency treatment with benzodiazepines like IV lorazepam help treat this condition.
What is status epilepticus?
This growth factor stimulates neovascularization of the retina, disc, and iris in proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
What is VEGF?
A suprasellar mass compressing the crossing nasal retinal fibers in the optic chiasm causes this visual defect.
What is bitemporal hemianop(s)ia?
This type of headache is bilateral with steady "bandlike" pain without nausea or vomiting.
What is a Tension headache?
This drug has rare potential for liver disease, blocks AMPA receptors, and is used to treat a disorder that arises due to mutation in superoxide dismutase in familial variations.
What is riluzole?
Eye-blinking and lip-smacking are examples of this seizure characteristic.
What are automatisms?
Prostaglandin analogs are first-line drugs for this eye disease.
What is glaucoma?
Failure of these cells to go from the embryonic nasal region to the hypothalamus causes Kallmann Syndrome.
What are GnRH neurons?
Tetracycline and Vitamin A are risk factors for this condition.
What is Idiopathic intracranial hypertension?
This drug inhibits GABA re-uptake.
What is Tiagabine?
A 32-year-old female reports a recurring sensation of epigastric rising followed by an intense feeling of déjà vu. Witnesses observe that she then stares blankly and begins picking at her shirt buttons for approximately two minutes. The seizure most likely originated in this region.
What is the temporal lobe?
This muscle originates at the sphenoid bone, is innervated by CN IV, and it depresses and intorts the eye.
What is the superior oblique?
A 45-year-old man recovers from a severe bout of HSV-1 encephalitis. He is observed placing non-food items in his mouth and displays inappropriate sexual behavior toward staff. These symptoms are most characteristic of a lesion in this limbic structure.
What is the amygdala?
Cheyne-Stokes respirations are a common cause of this sleep disorder.
These 3 drugs are non-selective dopamine agonists. (name all)
What are apomorphine, bromocryptine, and rotigotine?
This disorder is diagnosed by normal EEG during the seizure-like event.
What is Psychogenic non-epileptic spells (PNES)?
This part of the ciliary body is a site of origin for posterior lens zonules that help stabilize the lens.
What is the pars plana?
A patient with a hypothalamic injury presents with polyuria and polydipsia. Laboratory tests reveal a low urine osmolality that does not increase significantly with water deprivation. This condition is most likely caused by a deficiency in a hormone synthesized in this hypothalamic nucleus.
What is the supraoptic nucleus?