Neuromuscular
Mixed upper and lower motor neuron involvement
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Waxing and waning mental status
Delirium
Causes confusion, ophthalmoplegia, nystagmus and ataxia
Thiamine Deficiency (Wernicke's Encephalopathy)
Mechanism of action of Carbidopa
Peripheral Dopa-Decarboxylase inhibitor
Topiramate and Zonisamide
Ipsilateral loss of motor, vibratory and proprioceptive sensation with contralateral loss of pain and temperature
Brown-Sequard Syndrome
Cognitive dysfunction, gait impairment and urinary incontinence
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Causes headache, dizziness, cherry red skin, vomiting, seizures, loss of consciousness, and almond breath
Cyanide Poisoning
Pathway that increases thalamic excitation of the cortex
Direct Pathway
Epilepsy of 4-6 Hz polyspike morphology on EEG
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies gene
Deletion in Peripheral Myelin Protein 22 (PMP22) gene
Pathway that processes where a viewed object is in space
Parieto-Occipital Pathway
Secondary cause of B12 deficiency myelopathy, also known as Anesthesia Paresthetica
Nitrous Oxide Toxicity
Disease of tongue-protrusion dystonia, chorea and acanthocytes on peripheral smear
Neuroacanthocytosis
Syndrome of severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
Dravet's Syndrome
Cause of epidural lipomatosis
Chronic steroid use
Receptive aphasia with intact repetition
Transcortical Sensory Aphasia (MCA-PCA watershed or Thalamic territories)
Causes severe intention tremor, cerebellar ataxia, paresthesias, tender and inflamed gums, anxiety, irritability, fearfulness, memory loss, depression, and fatigue
Mercury Poisoning
Gene for disease of telangiectasia, ataxia, oculomotor abnormalities, immunodeficiency and hematologic malignancies
ATM gene(Ataxia-Telangiectasia, autosomal recessive, chromosome 11, DNA repair)
Syndrome of myocolonic-astatic epilepsy
Doose's Syndrome
Adrenomyeloneuropathy gene
ABCD1 (Chromosome Xq28)
Disorder of knowing what an object is used for, but being unable to exhibit that use physically (i.e. use a hairbrush to brush your hair)
Ideomotor Apraxia (in Ideational Apraxia the idea of the object is also lost)
Causes alopecia and a painful neuropathy
Thallium Poisoning
Chromosome that holds the CAG trinucleotide repeat causing Huntington's Disease
Chromosome 4 (autosomal dominant)
Syndrome of epilepsy with multiple seizure types and acquired aphasia
Landau-Kleffner syndrome