Seizures
Headaches
Movement
Weakness
Celebrities
100
Episodes of sudden flexion of head and trunk, with flexion of extremities, that occurred in transition periods of wakefulness to sleep and sleep to wakefulness, in a child 6 months of age
What are infantile spasms?
100
This headache's diagnostic criteria includes at least 5 attacks lasting between 2 and 72 hours, pulsatile, n/v or photophobia/phonophobia.
What is a migraine?
100
This disorder consists of a triad of head nodding, nystagmus, and torticollis.
What is Spasmus Nutans?
100
The gene causing weakness with gower's sign and large calves
DMD (on X chr) causing Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
100
This beloved actor and comedian was diagnosed with Lewy Body Disease only upon autopsy.
Who is Robin Williams?
200
A type of febrile seizure recurring in 24 hours, with focality, or duration of at least 15 minutes
What is Complex Febrile seizure?
200
This condition can be noted by papilledema, retrobulbar pain, diplopia, with risk factors including obesity, excessive vitamin A, and tetracycline.
What is Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (or Pseudotumor Cerebri)?
200
This syndrome requires one vocal and at least two motor tics for more than 1 year.
What is Tourette's syndrome?
200
This type of illness is associated with a descending paralysis after ingestion of unpasteurized honey.
What is botulism?
200
Aly Raisman and Serena Williams are two athletes who have been diagnosed with this neurological disease; and both have been seen on advertisements for Ubrelvy (ubrogepant).
What are migraines?
300
Type of seizure characterized by 3 per second spike and wave on EEG
What is Absence Seizure?
300
This abortive triptan for migraines is FDA approved for children 6 years and older.
What is rizatriptan?
300
This type of cerebral palsy is associated with dystonia and strange movements.
What is dyskinetic cerebral palsy?
300
This type of injury is concerning for weakness accompanied by back pain, as well as bowel and bladder dysfunction.
What is spinal trauma?
300
This NFL player announced in 2021 that he has been diagnosed with epilepsy since the 9th grade.
Who is Justin Fields?
400
A type of epilepsy with quick jerks noted in the morning and generalized tonic clonic seizures just after awakening.
What is Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME)
400
The gold standard for acute treatment in a teenager with unilateral retroorbital "ice pick" pain, that happens the same time of day for the last 3 days, with associated lacrimation.
What is oxygen?
400
This is a movement disorder characterized by rapid, purposeless, non-stereotyped movements flowing randomly from one part of the body to another.
What is chorea?
400
The gene causing an infant to present with hypotonia, proximal muscle weakness, and tongue fasciculations
What is SMN1?
Found on Chr 5q13, causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
400
This USA Goalie was diagnosed with Tourette's at a young age.
Who is Tim Howard?
500
Syndrome with multiple seizure types, intellectual disability, and generalized sharp and slow wave complexes at ~2Hz on EEG
What is Lennox-Gastaut syndrome?
500
This preventative medication for migraines is approved for children 12 years and older, and can cause kidney stones if not adequately hydrating.
What is topiramate?
500
These can be non-rhythmic jerks of arms or legs in a newborn that are only present in sleep and disappear when waking up.
What is benign neonatal sleep myoclonus?
500
This disease presents with proximal muscle weakness and elevated CK, with a red rash on face and eyelids.
What is dermatomyositis?
500
Romeo Beckham, son of David and Victoria Beckham, was discovered to have this diagnosis around 2006, which led to a moratorium on pictures being taken of the family, when he was present
What is epilepsy?