Embryology
This neural tube defect is likely to present with normal AFP?
What is Spina bifida occulta
Bilateral vestibular schwannomas causing bilateral hearing loss are classically associated with which disease
What is Neurofibromatosis Type II?
This ascending spinal cord tract is responsible for relaying sensory information about pain and temperature.
What is the Lateral spinothalamic tract?
Which cranial nerves are not found in the Brainstem?
What are CN I and II
This test can specifically assess for impairments to the afferent limb of the pupillary light reflex.
What is the swinging flashlight test?
This vesicles develops into the cerebral hemispheres.
What is the telencephalon?
Guillain-Barré is characterized by autoimmune destruction of which cell?
What is Schwann cells?
This ascending spinal cord tract is responsible for relaying sensory information about fine touch, vibration, and proprioception.
What is the Dorsal column-medial lemniscus?
The midbrain is derived from which of the following structures?
What is the mesencephalon?
The oculomotor nerve (CN III), trochlear nerve (CN IV), ophthalmic nerve (CN V1), abducens nerve (CN VI), and the superior ophthalmic vein all pass through the:
What is the superior orbital fissure?
This vesicle develops into the hypothalamus, the epithalamus, and the thalamus.
What is the diencephalon?
By which mechanism do Schwann cells aid in nerve recovery after injury?
What is Efficient Wallerian degeneration?
A lesion to the right fasciculus cuneatus (cuneate fasciculus) is most likely to impair the sensations of proprioception, vibration, and light touch from which part of the body?
What is the right arm?
Lesions to this structure can lead to decreased consciousness and/or coma.
What is the Reticular activating system?
What is the common presentation of a lesion to the oculomotor nerve?
What is the "down and out" gaze?
The mesoderm contributes to the embryonic development of this meningeal layer.
What is the dura mater
A tumor that stains positively for S100 is most likely to be this type of tumor.
An upper motor neuron fiber that descends ipsilaterally from the cerebral cortex and decussates at the spinal level it innervates is part of which pathway?
What is the Anterior corticospinal tract?
This artery supplies the lateral medulla and is implicated in Wallenberg Syndrome.
What is the posterior inferior cerebellar artery?
What finding is likely to be the earliest sign of a posterior communicating artery aneurysm affecting the oculomotor nerve?
What is ipsilateral pupillary dilation?
Relative to the notochord, where does the neuroectoderm lie between the second and third weeks of gestation?
What is dorsal?
This cranial nerve is myelinated by oligodendrocytes.
Where do neurons of the corticospinal tract synapse?
What is the ventral gray horns?
A lateral pontine stroke would most likely involve this artery.
What is the anterior inferior cerebellar artery?
Which ocular muscles are controlled by each ocular nerve?
LR6: Later rectus-CNVI
SO4: Superior oblique- CNIV
ATR3: All The Rest by CNIII